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Most Recent Role: Beaker / Miss Piggy (1976-1977) / Janice (1977-1981) / Wayne / Scooter / Statler / Sweetums on The Muppet Show
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA
Birthday: 8-16-1951
Date of Death: 1-7-1992
Cause of Death: AIDS
Richard Hunt (SCOOTER, SWEETUMS, STATLER, BEAKER, JANICE AND GLADYS) is literally a born actor; everyone in his family has at some time worked in show business. His father, now deceased, was an actor. His brother a singer. His mother and three sisters are involved in show business near their home in Closter, New Jersey. Richard has always known that he'd wind up somewhere in the...

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The Muppet Show
The Wizard of Oz
Friday 20 May 2005 on Syndicated

Dorothy Gale (played here by Ashanti) wants desperately to get out of Kansas and become a famous pop singer. But before she can do anything about it, she and her pet prawn Pepe (Bill Barretta) get whisked away to the Land of Oz, where she must find the Wizard (Jeffrey Tambor) in order to get...

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Fraggle Rock
Beige Cave Fraggle, Firechief Fraggle, Gillis Fraggle, Gunge, Herkimer Fraggle, Junior Gorg, Magical Spider-Fly, The Mean Genie,
Little Muppet Monsters
Scooter
Sesame Unpaved
Gladys the Cow/Two Headed Monster/Sully
The Jim Henson Hour
Beaker / Statler
The Muppet Show
Beaker / Janice / Wayne / Scooter / Statler / Sweetums
Recurring Role
The Muppet Show
2-Headed Singer
Guest Star
Disneyland
A Muppet Family Christmas
Scooter, Forgetful Jones, Janice, Statler, Beaker, Sully, Gladys the Cow, Two-Headed Monster (Stein), Osvaldo the Grouch, Snowma
The Cosby Show
Cliff's Nightmare
Puppeteer/Voice of Statler
The Secret Life of Toys
"Jim Henson's 'The Christmas Toy'"
Belmont
Director
Fraggle Rock
The Honk Of Honks
Other
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Live from the Grillomat
Production Designer
Monty Python's Flying Circus
How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
Production Designer
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Archaeology Today
Production Designer
Monty Python's Flying Circus
It's a Living (aka School Prizes)
Production Designer
Softly Softly
Don't Tell Me, Let Me Guess
Production Designer
Softly Softly
Landing Whispers
Production Designer
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10.0
Perfect
"Personal favorite"
He was so beautiful and created so many wonderful muppet characters. Love you always Richard!!
Continue » Posted Nov 24, 2005 7:16 pm PST
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