Jerry Nelson

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Biography

Recent Role:
The Count (1972-)Biff Hardhat (1973- on Sesame Street
Gender:
Male
Born:
7-10-1934
Birthplace:
Oklahoma
Jerry Nelson is a principal puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company. He has created countless characters including Robin the Frog, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, The Count, and many more.
Jerry started out puppeteering for Bil Baird. Throughout the 60s, he worked on-and-off with Henson. Then in 1970, he joined the company and began working regularly on "Sesame Street." Since then, Jerry has performed in numerous Muppet productions including the Muppet movies, "The Muppet Show," and various TV specials.
His current work includes puppeteering on "Sesame Street."

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    Jerry Nelson is my favorite muppet performer of all time! hide show

    Jerry has a great vocal range providing voices for many of my favorite characters, like Floyd, Uncle Deadly, crazy harry, and the Count. He has a great ability to provide so many unique voices for so many different charcters. He just brings believable personality to all his characters. The fact he can pull off some amazing vocal abilities, such as singing at incresing tempo (like in the Ruth Buzzi episode when the electric mayhem was performing Sunny), is amazing. Its a shame he is retired and not going to do his Muppet Show voices (he still is doing his sesame street voices though)

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    Jerry Nelson's one of my favorite Sesame Street puppeteers! He does The Count, one of my fav Sesame Street characters. hide show

    Jerry Nelson's great at voicing The Count Von Count. He is also great at doing Fat Blue, Sherlock Hemlock, and many more.

    For The Count:
    Greetings! It is I, The Count. I am called The Count because I love to count things, yes. Ah Ah Ah!
    For Sherlock Hemlock:
    E-Gad! Yet another mystery solved by Sherlock Hemlock the world's greatest detective.
    For Fat Blue:
    (Sees Grover)Oh No, it's you again!

    Jerry Nelson does some of the funniest characters on Sesame Street.

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