Celebrated, Mississippi-born puppeteer Jim Henson died in 1990, but his name is still alive through the Muppets.

Jim Henson died of toxic shock syndrome at 53 years old Hulton Archive/Getty Jim Henson’s sudden death rocked his family and friends. The Muppets creator came down with what he thought was a bad cold ...

Jim Henson steps in front of the camera, wearing a Steve Jobs–style black turtleneck, a detail that seems to foreshadow the early death we now know awaited him. At the time of the interview, the ...

The trouble with writing a biography about a figure as boundlessly creative as Jim Henson – say, Brian Jay Jones’ Jim Henson: The Biography from 2013 – is that the book can go only so far in conveying ...

The Jim Henson Company is celebrating a huge milestone this year — seventy years of creativity, innovation, and the kind of imagination that’s defined generations. From The Muppets to Labyrinth to The ...

On September 24, 2013, the Jim Henson Family donated more than 20 puppets and props to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Many of the donated puppets are the first constructions of ...

Jim Henson may have created some of the most wholesome characters in television history, but his real-life love story was less than picture-perfect. Biographer Brian Jay Jones revealed on “Nostalgia ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Howard’s Jim Henson Idea Man – the most nominated documentary at this year’s Emmys – will make its broadcast debut Sunday, August 11 on ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney. The film ...

"Even if you get to the center, you'll never get out again!" Fathom Entertainment has unveiled a new trailer for the classic Jim Henson fantasy adventure movie Labyrinth, which is celebrating its 40th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Henson was a true visionary in the world of puppetry and storytelling. Born on September 24, 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite the short-lived nature of The Junior Morning Show, Henson and his puppets made an impression on the guy running the series ...