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A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or her own hands placed inside the puppet or holding it externally. Some puppet styles require puppeteers to work together as a team to create a single puppet character.
There are a wide range of styles of puppetry but whatever the style, the puppeteer's role is to manipulate the physical object in such a manner that the audience believes the object is imbued with life. In some instances the persona of the puppeteer is also an important feature.
The relationship between the puppeteer and the puppet-maker is often assumed to be similar to that between an actor and a playwright. This may be so, but one of the characteristics of puppetry is that very often the puppeteer assumes the joint roles of puppet-maker, director, designer, writer and performer. In this case a puppeteer is a more complete theatre practitioner than is the case within other theatre forms.
Actors: Nadia Venesse (miscellaneous crew), Gary Farmer (actor), Howard Shore (composer), A Martinez (actor), Pascal Caucheteux (producer), Elya Baskin (actor), Gina McKee (actress), Stephen Bridgewater (miscellaneous crew), Benicio Del Toro (actor), Mathieu Amalric (actor), Larry Pine (actor), David C. Robinson (costume designer), Brooke Satrazemis (miscellaneous crew), Danny Mooney (actor), Shanti Delsarte (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Paul Trijbits (producer), Alison Owen (producer), Maxine Peake (actress), Chris Wyatt (editor), Stephen Bent (actor), Luke Treadaway (actor), Joby Talbot (composer), Faye Ward (producer), Peter Sullivan (actor), Deepak Sikka (producer), Lynsey Miller (producer), M.J. McMahon (producer), Hannah Farrell (producer), Amanda Lawrence (actress), Rebecca Hall (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Cristina Malavenda (editor), Claire Tailyour (producer), Heidi Krilanovich (actress), Nestor Aaron Absera (actor), Anne Marie Selby (actress), Josie Foster (writer), Josie Foster (director), Paul Kikuchi (composer), Thomas Kolb (costume designer), Caroline Vaughan (producer),
Plot: Bernadette stalks the streets for the object of her obsession, a derelict street puppeteer. She loses her dignity as he erodes her through subtle humiliations. But she finds strength in a mysterious blue faerie, the embodiment of true magic and romance.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Kerthy Fix (miscellaneous crew), Paul Kloss (producer), Paul Kloss (editor), Paul Kloss (director), Paul Kloss (writer), Matt Acheson (writer), Matt Acheson (actor), Matt Acheson (director), Tom Lee (actor), Oliver Dalzell (actor), Bexar Bexar (composer), Deana Acheson (actress), Anne Posluszny (actress),
Genres: Animation, Short,Actors: Sarah Silverman (actress), Eminem (actor), Jimmy Kimmel (actor), Robert Smigel (actor), Kaleti Williams (actor), Alice Dinnean (actress), Drew Massey (actor), Victor Yerrid (actor), Jim Florentine (actor), Jim Florentine (actor), BJ Guyer (actor), Cheryl Sands (actress), Kevin McCullough (editor), Randy Sosin (writer), Artie Esposito (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Verne Troyer (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Jeffrey Tambor (actor), Clint Howard (actor), T.J. Thyne (actor), Christine Baranski (actress), Rance Howard (actor), Bill Irwin (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Ron Howard (actor), Rick Baker (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Mindy Sterling (actress), Molly Shannon (actress),
Plot: Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.
Keywords: 2000s, affection, based-on-children's-book, blockbuster, braided-hair, broken-heart, burning-tree, celebration, character-name-in-title, childhood-sweetheartActors: Maurice Jarre (composer), Ruth Buzzi (actress), Carol Burnett (actress), Sid Haig (actor), Vito Scotti (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Danny Aiello (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Jim Haynie (actor), Danny Glover (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Adam Arkin (actor), Jack W. Haddox (miscellaneous crew), David Lowell Rich (director),
Plot: Flash used to be a talented baseball player but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances but in the streets for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day they find stolen government documents forgotten some place. They decide to return them to their legal owners but instead of the expected reward money all the retribution they get is a whole lot of trouble.
Keywords: baseball-has-been, carmen-miranda-impersonator, character-name-in-title, homelessness, reference-to-carmen-miranda, san-francisco-california, vagrantActors: Joe Gray (actor), Milton Frome (actor), Paul Frees (actor), Richard Bakalyan (actor), Nicky Blair (actor), Joe Besser (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Jim Backus (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Roscoe Ates (actor), Stanley Adams (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Lorne Greene (actor),
Plot: Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Keywords: basketball, boy, champagne, character-shouts-"geronimo", clown-puppet, clumsiness, crashing-through-a-door, dual-role, elevator, embarrassmentActors: Britt Ekland (actress), Bess Flowers (actress), Elvis Presley (actor), Scott Seaton (actor), Dick Winslow (actor), Arthur Tovey (actor), Torben Meyer (actor), Fred Essler (actor), Gene Roth (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Ludwig Stössel (actor), Mickey Knox (actor), Hal B. Wallis (producer), Juliet Prowse (actress),
Plot: Tulsa is a specialist in the US Army stationed in Germany. He loves to sing and has dreams to run his own nightclub when he leaves the army....but dreams don't come cheap. Tulsa places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can spend the night with a club dancer named Lili, who is rumored to be hard to get. When Dynamite gets transferred, Tulsa is brought in to take his place. He is not looking forward to it, but in order to keep his money, he must go through with it.
Keywords: 1950s, accordion, acoustic-guitar, acronym-in-title, airport, american-soldier, applause, armor, army, army-trainingActors: Sammy Lee (miscellaneous crew), Scotty Beckett (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Halliwell Hobbes (actor), Edward Keane (actor), Murray Kinnell (actor), Michael Mark (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Gene Raymond (actor), Tom Ricketts (actor), Harry Semels (actor), Lynn Bari (actress), Georgia Caine (actress), Geneva Mitchell (actress),
Plot: Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people are drawn to it. After seeing Suzanne, the competitors popular dancer, Tony is mesmerized by her. He goes backstage to see her and asks her if he can make a puppet of her to use in his show. Over-hearing this, the Baron, Suzanne's controlling manager, castigates Suzanne threatening to set her free. Suzanne terrified of being on her own, begs the Baron to marry her and not to leave her. Tony comes during one of Suzanne's performances and begs her not to marry the Baron. Upset, Suzanne falls into the orchestra pit and injures herself to the extent that she won't dance again. Baron leaves Suzanne, but Tony with a doctor's help puts her through a vigorous exercise program. Tony also shows her how to be a puppeteer. Tony confesses to Suzanne that his true friends are his puppets. He picks up the puppet of Suzanne and tells her that he is in love with this puppet. Suzanne not realizing that he means her becomes confused. Together they put on a successful celebrity puppet show. During a celebration party, Tony decides he will propose marriage to her uniquely. He picks up the puppet of her and asks it to marry him. Suzanne becomes jealous and confused...
Keywords: paris-france, puppet