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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Muppets are a cultural institution. They are not just characters, they are absolute stars. Icons, even. Since their debut back ...

Jim Henson’s constant creativity began in the early 1950s and continued until his untimely death in 1990. The decades in between saw Henson breath life into scores of memorable characters. Here are ...

1955: Jim Henson debuts Kermit the Frog on Washington, D.C.’s WRC-TV’s program “Sam and Friends,’’ in black and white. Henson goes on to perform Ernie, Rowlf the Dog, the Swedish Chef (Henson did the ...

Alongside the felt-free Alain Resnais retrospective, this month the Gene Siskel Film Center is rerunning a substantial portion of “Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy,” which was a significant ...

This may come as a shock, but the Muppets are passé. Two or three generations have matured since the late Jim Henson introduced his hairy, gregarious puppets in 1955, on local TV in Washington, DC.

David Steffey decorates his middle-school classroom with relics from his childhood. Hanging on his wall is a framed original soundtrack album cover of "The Muppet Show," which ran from 1976 to 1981 on ...