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Frank Oz

Biography

Frank Oz (born Richard Frank Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is a British-born American film director, actor, voice actor, and puppeteer. He is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show and for directing films, including the Little Shop Of Horrors remake and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He is also the operator and voice of Yoda in the Star Wars franchise.

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Id

7908

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-05-25

Place of Birth

Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Фрэнк Оз

فرانک اوز

Richard Frank Oznowicz

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Known For

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Return of th

Star Wars: E

The Muppet M

Zathura: A S

Sesame Stree

The Muppets

Of Muppets &

Spies Like U

A Sesame Str

A Muppet Fam

Innocent Blo

The Muppets

I Love Liber

Follow That

Henson's Pla

The Great Mu

Films Are No

Sesame Stree

The Muppet R

Muppet Video

Muppet Treas

The Muppet M

The Muppets

Tales from M

Being Elmo:

Rocky Mounta

Free to Be..

The Fantasti

The Muppets

The World of

The Muppets

The Great Sa

Reflections

50 Years of

Howard

Children's S

Sesame Stree

Jerry Nelson

Sesame Stree

Hip Hip Para

Muppet Picke

Sesame Stree

The Very Bes

Don't Eat th

The Very Bes

The Paperwor

Sesame Stree

I Am Big Bir

Inside Out 2

Muppets Magi

When Star Wa

In Their Own

Time Piece

Jim Henson I

Inside Out

An American

Empire of Dr

Star Wars: T

SP FX: The E

The Adventur

The Beginnin

Miss Piggy's

Disney Legen

Sesame Stree

Hey, You're

Christmas Ev

CinderElmo

Out to Lunch

The Story of

An Evening w

Muppet Treas

The Great Gi

Sesame Stree

Emmet Otter'

Muppet Class

Star Wars: T

The Muppets

John Denver

Muppet Guys

From Puppets

The Director

The Orson We

Sesame Stree

Muppet Video

Knives Out

Classic Crea

Sing! Sesame

Sesame Stree

Muppet Side

Labyrinth

Star Wars: T

The Stories

Sesame Stree

Hey Cinderel

Big Bird in

The Muppets:

I Love Muppe

The World of

Best Ever Mu

Blues Brothe

The Best of

Muppet Guys

Julie on Ses

Disneyland's

The Muppet C

Sesame Stree

Echoes of Vi

Street Gang:

The Best of

Sesame Stree

The Dark Cry

Night of 100

The Muppet I

A Walking To

Sesame Stree

This Way to

Julie Andrew

Sesame Stree

The Muppet S

Making "The

Jim Henson's

Getting Read

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Home Alone 2

Sesame Stree

The Royal Va

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Acting

Clear

2025

fozzie descuido venga la alegría

asFozzie

2025

The Muppet Script

asSelf (archive footage)

2024

Disney Legends Awards Ceremony

asSelf

2024

Inside Out 2

asMind Cop Dave (voice)

2024

Jim Henson Idea Man

asSelf

2022

Jerry Nelson: A Celebratory Birthday Animatic

asGrover (voice) / Cookie Monster (voice) / others (voice)

2021

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

asSelf (archive footage)

2021

Echoes of Violence

asDante

2020

Muppet Guys Talking: A Special Conversation to Honor Jim Henson

asSelf

2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

asYoda (voice)

2019

Knives Out

asAlan Stevens

2019

Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting

asCookie Monster

2018

Howard

asSelf (archive footage)

2018

The Director and the Jedi

asSelf

2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

asYoda (voice)

2017

Muppet Guys Talking: Secrets Behind the Show the Whole World Watched

asSelf

2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

asYoda (archive sound) (uncredited)

2015

The Great Gilly Hopkins

asCookie Monster (voice)

2015

In Their Own Words: Jim Henson

asSelf - Friend & Muppet Performer

2015

Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!

2015

Inside Out

asSubconscious Guard Dave (voice)

2015

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

asSelf

2014

Jim Henson: Behind the Seams

2011

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

asSelf

2009

Jim Henson: His Sesame Street Story

2009

Jim Henson's Tales from Muppetland

2007

Reflections of 'The Dark Crystal'

asSelf

2006

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

asBert (voice) (archive footage)

2006

Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'

asSelf

2006

Sesame Street: Elmo's Potty Time

asGrover (voice)

2006

Best Ever Muppet Moments

asSelf

2005

Zathura: A Space Adventure

asRobot (voice)

2005

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

asYoda (voice)

2004

Muppet History 101

2004

Jim Henson: Commercials and Experiments

2004

Muppet Music Moments

asSelf

2004

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

asSelf

2004

When Star Wars Ruled the World

asSelf

2004

Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover

asGrover (voice) (archive footage)

2004

The Story of Star Wars

asYoda (archive footage)

2004

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites

asCookie Monster (voice)

2003

Muppets Magic from 'The Ed Sullivan Show!'

asMuppet Performer

2003

Sesame Street: Let's Eat! Funny Food Songs

asGrover / Cookie Monster (voice)

2002

Films Are Not Released, They Escape

asSelf

2002

From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II'

asSelf / Yoda

2002

Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie's Word Play

asBert / Cookie Monster (credit song) / T-Shirt Salesman / Fat Blue Anything Muppet in Fat Cat (voice) (archive footage)

2002

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

asYoda (voice)

2002

I Love Muppets

asSelf

2001

Making "The Score"

asHimself

2001

Monsters, Inc.

asJeff Fungus (voice)

2001

The Beginning: Making Episode I

asSelf

2001

The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 3

asFozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Sam the Eagle / Animal / Wolf

1999

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

asBert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)

1999

Muppets from Space

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle (voice)

1999

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

asYoda (voice)

1999

The Very Best of the Muppet Show

asFozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / Sam the Eagle

1999

The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 2

asFozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / Sam the Eagle

1999

CinderElmo

asBert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)

1998

The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'

asSelf

1998

The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street

asGrover (voice)

1998

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

asGrover / Cookie Monster / Bert (voice)

1998

Blues Brothers 2000

asWarden

1997

Sesame Street: Elmo Says BOO!

asBert (voice)

1997

Sesame Street: Quiet Time

asBert ("Naptime") (voice)

1996

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

asCookie Monster (voice)

1996

Muppet Treasure Island

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Sam the Eagle / Animal (voice)

1996

Sesame Street: Do the Alphabet

asCookie Monster / Green (voice) (archive footage)

1996

Sesame Street: Kid's Guide to Life: Learning to Share

asCookie Monster

1994

The World of Jim Henson

asSelf / Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear

1994

Muppet Classic Theater

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)

1994

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

asBert / Grover (archive footage)

1993

Sesame Street Stays Up Late!

asBert/Grover/Cookie Monster/Uncle Hank(voice)

1993

Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years: A Musical Celebration!

asGrover

1993

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

asBert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)

1992

Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'

asMiss Piggy

1992

The Muppet Christmas Carol

asMiss Piggy as Emily Cratchit / Fozzie Bear as Fozziewig / Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates / Animal / George the Janitor / Horse and Carriage Driver / Vegetable Salesman (voice)

1992

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

asMan putting money into donation bucket (uncredited)

1992

Innocent Blood

asPathologist

1992

Getting Ready to Read

asBert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)

1991

Sesame Street: Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game

asGrover(voice)

1990

The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson

asSelf / Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Bert / Sam the Eagle (voice)

1990

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special

asMiss Piggy (voice)

1990

Jim Henson's Memorial Service

1990

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

asSelf

1990

The Muppets at Walt Disney World

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)

1990

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

as(archive footage) (voice)

1990

Sesame Street: Monster Hits!

asCookie Monster (voice) / Grover (voice) / Clancy (voice)

1989

50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration

asMiss Piggy

1989

An Evening with Jim Henson and Frank Oz

asSelf

1989

Miss Piggy's Hollywood

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear

1988

Free to Be... a Family

asMiss Piggy (voice)

1988

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

asBert/Grover/Cookie Monster (voice)

1988

The Best of Ernie and Bert

asBert

1988

Hey, You're as Funny as Fozzie Bear

asFozzie Bear (voice)

1987

A Muppet Family Christmas

asMiss Piggy / Fozzy Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle / Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster

1987

Sesame Street: Sing Along

1986

Labyrinth

asThe Wiseman

1986

Sesame Street: Learning About Letters

asCookie Monster/Bert/Grover/Princess Penelope (voice)

1986

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

asFozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Sam the Eagle / Bert / Animal / Grover / Cookie Monster / Marvin Suggs (voice)

1986

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

asBert / Grover (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Cookie Monster (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Tallest and Smallest People (Bedtime Stories & Songs) (voice)

1986

Sesame Street: Learning About Numbers

asGrover / Fat Blue Tarnish Brother (voice)

1985

Spies Like Us

asTest Monitor

1985

Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)

1985

Follow That Bird

asCookie Monster / Bert / Grover / Additional Muppets (voice)

1985

Muppet Treasures

asFozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal

1985

The Muppet Revue

asFozzie Bear / Miss Piggy (voice)

1985

Muppet Video: The Kermit and Piggy Story

asMiss Piggy (voice)

1985

Children's Songs and Stories with the Muppets

asMiss Piggy (voice)

1984

The Muppets Take Manhattan

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie / Animal / Bert / Cookie Monster / Ocean Breeze Soap Board Member / Sam the Eagle (voice)

1984

Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets

asFrank Oz (self)

1983

Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi

asSelf

1983

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

asBert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)

1983

Trading Places

asCorrupt Cop

1983

Big Bird in China

asBert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)

1983

Return of the Jedi

asYoda (voice)

1983

Rocky Mountain Holiday with John Denver and the Muppets

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Gramps (voice)

1983

The World of 'The Dark Crystal'

asSelf

1983

Muppet Breakthrough

asGrump

1982

The Dark Crystal

asAughra, a Keeper of Secrets / Chamberlain

1982

The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)

1982

I Love Liberty

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)

1982

Night of 100 Stars

asMiss Piggy (voice)

1981

Of Muppets & Men

asSelf

1981

Muppet Side Splitter

asGrump (voice)

1981

An American Werewolf in London

asMr. Collins

1981

The Great Muppet Caper

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Sam the Eagle / Animal (voice)

1981

The Muppets Go to the Movies

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam Eagle

1980

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back

asYoda

1980

The Blues Brothers

asCorrections Officer

1980

The Empire Strikes Back

asYoda (Voice)

1979

John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)

1979

The Muppet Movie

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle / Doc Hopper's Men / Marvin Suggs / Swedish Chef (hands) / Motorcycle Guy (voice)

1979

The Muppets Go Hollywood

asVarious Muppets

1979

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

asGrover / Cookie Monster / Bert (archive footage)

1979

The Orson Welles Show

asSelf / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam Eagle (voice)

1979

Meal Break

asGrump

1979

Grump Critic

asGrump

1979

Let's Have the Dam Break

asGrump

1979

Muppet Breaker Upper

asGrump / Quongo

1979

Muppet Gimme a Break

asGrump

1978

Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

asBert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)

1978

Hip Hip Parade!

asFozzie Bear

1978

Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear

1978

The Vent Event

asFozzie Bear

1977

The Bob Hope All Star Christmas Comedy Special

asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear

1977

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

asChuck (voice)

1977

The Royal Variety Performance 1977

1977

Sesame Street at Night?

asGrover / Cookie Monster / Bert (voice) (archive footage)

1976

Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun!

asGeorge the Janitor, Fozzie Bear

1975

Sesame Street- Do you know where Ernie lives?

asSelf

1975

Muppet Picker Upper

asSam the Eagle (voice)

1975

The Muppet Introduction

asSam the Eagle

1975

Just a Few Announcements

asSam the Eagle

1974

Out to Lunch

asBert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)

1973

Julie on Sesame Street

1972

The Muppet Musicians of Bremen

asRat (voice)

1971

Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince

asGawain (voice)

1970

The Great Santa Claus Switch

asThig / Skippity / Hoppity / Boppity / Snerf (voice)

1970

The Muppets on Puppets

asSelf

1969

This Way to Sesame Street

asBert

1969

Sesame Street Pitch Reel

asScoop / Beautiful Day Monster (voice)

1969

Hey Cinderella!

asStepsister #1 / Splurge (voice)

1967

The Paperwork Explosion

1965

Time Piece

asMessenger boy

Coming Soon

(3166 episode)asBert

Coming Soon

(120 episode)asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam Eagle / Marvin Suggs / George the Janitor (voice)

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(22 episode)asMiss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / George the Janitor

Coming Soon

(12 episode)as

Coming Soon

(13 episode)as

Coming Soon

(26 episode)as

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(67 episode)as

Coming Soon

(2 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asMiss Piggy

Coming Soon

(10 episode)asYoda (voice)

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asYoda (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Coming Soon

(2 episode)asYoda (voice)

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf - Director

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf - Guest

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asMiss Piggy (voice)

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asSelf - Yoda Puppeteer (archive footage)

Coming Soon

(10 episode)asThe Mighty Favog (voice)

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asThe Flood (voice)

Coming Soon

(1 episode)asMiss Piggy