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Everything from a full chest cavity that has, inside of it, a heart that beats because of the puppeteer under the gurney who’s beating it, and then lungs that are beating in time that another puppeteer is working, with somebody else who’s squirting fluids through tubing.
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
British puppeteer Rod Hull arrives on set with his ersatz bird that promptly snaps at Carson while playing nice with Richard Pryor on the Tonight Show couch.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
According to Oz, Miss Piggy’s puppeteer, her toughness was hard-won.
—Sophie Brickman, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2025
The puppeteers then worked from the artist’s sculptures to make sturdier marionettes for performance.
—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
British puppeteer Rod Hull arrives on set with his ersatz bird that promptly snaps at Carson while playing nice with Richard Pryor on the Tonight Show couch.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
According to Oz, Miss Piggy’s puppeteer, her toughness was hard-won.
—Sophie Brickman, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2025
The puppeteers then worked from the artist’s sculptures to make sturdier marionettes for performance.
—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025
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“Puppeteer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puppeteer. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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puppeteer
noun
pup·pe·teer
ˌpəp-ə-ˈti(ə)r 
: one who works puppets
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