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By his freshman year at the University in washington at University of Maryland, College Park` in 1955, Henson had scored a bi-weekly bit on a local NBC affiliate, Sam and Friends. -
Jim Henson's first award was a local Emmy in 1959 for "Sam and Friends," a nightly five-minute show that introduced Kermit the Frog. -
henson founded the Jim Henson company -
Rowlf the Dog was the first Muppet to reach national stardom as a cast member of The Jimmy Dean Show from 1963 to 1966. He was also the first puppet to gain national exposure -
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The hit series has Kermit the frog as the host. -
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"life's like a movie write your own ending. keep believing keep pretending" "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye" -
Henson's bigger TV fame came along in the 1970's, Henson produced two pilot episodes for ABC in 1974 and 1975. but neither went forward as a series, while other networks in the United States rejected Henson's need for eating the show financed, British producer Lew Grade expressed enthusiasm for the project and agreed to co-produce The Muppet Show for ATV in the United Kingdom for ITV network. -
The Muppet show also lead to feature films such a as The Muppet Movie in 1979, Including an animated spin off of Jim Hensons Muppet Babies. This gained four consecutive Emmys (outstanding animated program). -
Henson didn’t limit his TV puppetry to his original Muppets. In the 1980s, he developed the TV series Fraggle Rock, The Jim Henson Hour and Jim Henson's The Storyteller -
Mr. Henson started making movies, including 1982’s The Dark Crystal, a groundbreaking film mixing puppetry and animatronics, and 1986’s Labyrinth, which was produced by George Lucas and starred David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. -
came down with what he thought was a bad cold in early May 1990, but within a couple of weeks, his illness escalated into a serious bacterial infection, ultimately leading to his death on May 16. He was 53 years old.
At the time, Henson was in the middle of a deal with Disney to sell the Muppets to the entertainment company.