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Jiří Trnka (filmmaker)

Jiří Trnka was a Czech illustrator, puppet maker, animator, and film director whose career in animated cinema began afte...

Classic Animation Czech Puppet Filmmaker

9.6 Brilliant

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Handspring Puppet Company

Handspring Puppet Company is a South African puppetry and contemporary-theatre company founded in 1981 by Adrian Kohler,...

Theater Contemporary South African Puppet Company

9.4 Excellent

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Howdy Doody

Howdy Doody is a vintage marionette created for NBC’s The Howdy Doody Show. He was notable as a pioneering figure in chi...

Vintage American Marionette Nbc

8.9 Great

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Drak Theatre (Czech)

Drak Theatre is a professional Czech puppet theater founded in Hradec Králové in 1958. Its productions combine marionett...

Modern Czech Puppet Theater Hradec Kralove

8.7 Great

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The Two and Only (Jay Johnson show)

The Two and Only is a one-person Broadway stage production created and performed by Jay Johnson. It combines memoir, com...

Theater Jay Johnson Ventriloquism Broadway Solo

8.7 Great

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Beany

Beany is a boy puppet character created by animator Bob Clampett for the puppet television series Time for Beany, which...

Vintage American Marionette Boy

8.5 Great

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Mr. Punch

Mr. Punch is the central hook-nosed, hunchbacked trickster character of the traditional British Punch and Judy hand pupp...

Traditional British Slapstick Hand Puppet

8.3 Great

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Lady Penelope (Thunderbirds)

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is a fictional character from Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation series Thunderbirds (1965–1...

Character Marionette Supermarionation Gerry Anderson

8.3 Great

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Divadlo Minor (Czech)

Divadlo Minor is a Prague theatre for children and young people whose present building on Vodickova Street opened in Dec...

Touring Czech Children Prague

8.3 Great

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Guignol

Guignol is the main character in a form of puppet theater originating from Lyon, France, created by Laurent Mourguet aro...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

7.7 Good

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Karagöz

Karagöz is the central character and namesake of a traditional Turkish shadow puppet theater that originated in the Otto...

Theater Traditional Satirical Turkish

7.5 Good

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Spejbl

Spejbl is a Czech marionette created by puppeteer Josef Skupa in 1920. Usually portrayed in a plaid jacket and wooden cl...

Theater Traditional Czech Marionette

7.4 Good

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Polichinelle

Polichinelle is the French form of Pulcinella, the masked figure of the Italian commedia dell'arte. Traditionally shown...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

7.3 Good

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Hacivat

Hacivat is one of the two central figures in Karagöz, the traditional Turkish shadow-puppet theater, where he serves as...

Theater Traditional Turkish Foil

7.2 Good

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Dilly Dally

Dilly Dally is a puppet character and resident of Doodyville on NBC's The Howdy Doody Show (1947–1960), one of the ensem...

Vintage American Marionette Howdy Doody

6.9 Fair

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Gnafron

Gnafron is a companion of Guignol in the traditional puppet theatre of Lyon, France. He is commonly portrayed as a cobbl...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

6.8 Fair

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Don Cristóbal

Don Cristóbal is a traditional Spanish glove-puppet character related to the rough comic figures found in European popul...

Theater Spanish Traditional Andalusian

6.5 Fair

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Kasperle

Kasperle is a traditional character from German-language puppet theatre, related to the broader European family of comic...

Theater Traditional Hand Puppet Jester

6.4 Fair

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Jan Klaassen

Jan Klaassen is a traditional Dutch puppet-theatre character related to the Italian Pulcinella and to other European com...

Theater Traditional Dutch Clown

6.3 Fair

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Mánička

Mánička is a Czech marionette character associated with the puppet theatre tradition created by Josef Skupa. She was int...

Theater Traditional Czech Marionette

6.2 Fair