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Guignol
English toy theatre
Faun and Nymph puppets
Chinese children playing with marionettes
Marionnettes à la planchette
Punch-and-Judy show
puppet-style modern dance-drama based on the Ramayana
wayang kulit puppets
Indonesian wayang shadow puppet and decoration
Fran Allison with Kukla and Ollie
The ancient tradition of Vietnamese water puppetry
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Cora Baird
American puppeteer
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Bil Baird
American puppeteer
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Burr Tillstrom
American puppeteer
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Tony Sarg
American puppeteer
Chong, Ping
Ping Chong
American playwright, theater director, and video artist
Švankmajer, Jan
Jan Švankmajer
Czech artist, puppeteer, animator, and filmmaker
Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog
Jim Henson
American puppeteer
Bil Baird sits smiling next to his puppet Princess Gwendolyn, who has large eyes and long hair, wearing a gown with puffed sleeves.
Bil and Cora Baird
American puppeteers
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Robert Clampett
American director
Obraztsov
Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov
Soviet puppeteer
Shari Lewis with her puppets Lamb Chop (left) and Hush Puppy
Shari Lewis
American puppeteer and author
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Jiří Trnka
Czech filmmaker
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Michael Meschke
German-Swedish puppeteer
Teschner
Richard Teschner
Austrian puppeteer
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Imre Madách
Hungarian poet