I love talented people but especially when I find out random facts about people I am even more impressed. Did you know that Frank Oz was the voice of Miss Piggy?
Via Wikipedia:
His characters have included Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam the Eagle on The Muppet Show, and Grover, Cookie Monster and Bert on Sesame Street.
Oz is also well known as the performer of Jedi Master Yoda from George Lucas' Star Wars series. Oz performed the voice and puppet for Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, and provided the voice of the computer-generated imagery (CGI) Yoda in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. The conversion to CGI was met with some criticism among fans but Oz himself said that was "exactly what [Lucas] should have done."[6] Oz had a great deal of creative input on the character and was himself responsible for creating the character's trademark speech style, placing predicate before subject. George Lucas was so impressed by Oz's performance as Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back that he tried to get him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
I only knew his work as a director on "Little Shop of Horrors" and "What about Bob" but damn talk about versatility.
FRANK OZ....This is for you. Cheers!
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