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Martin P. Robinson

Martin P. Robinson

Acting • 1954-03-09 • Dearborn, Michigan, USA

Martin P. Robinson (born March 9, 1954) is a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company. He originally built, designed, and performed the puppets for Little Shop of Horrors. He is perhaps best known for his work on Sesame Street. He has performed the characters of Telly Monster, Slimey the Worm, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Tony The Turtle on the show for more than 20 years. He also performed the character Riff on Allegra's Window, and was an animatronic puppeteer for Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is the puppeteer responsible for training the puppeteers on Sesame Tree. He was born on March 9, 1954 in Dearborn, Michigan. Graduated from Brookfield East High School, in Brookfield, Wisconsin, suburb of Milwaukee. He was married to Annie Evans on August 9, 2008 on the set of Sesame Street, in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin P. Robinson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Sesame Street7.1

Sesame Street

1969

Spitting Image7.2

Spitting Image

1984

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles6.7

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990

Allegra's Window8.5

Allegra's Window

1994

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art6.6

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1983

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland6.2

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

1999

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