List of Sesame Street animators

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The following is a list of animators who contributed to the children's television series Sesame Street.

  • Joey Ahlbum
    • Animated inserts in "Elmo's World"
    • Traction Jackson
  • Karen Aqua
    • Boy's book comes to life
    • Dog dances between a girl and an alligator-headed figure
    • Four women dance forward and backward with birds and fish
  • Cordell Barker
    • Two flies land on a man's nose and take a bite
    • A beatnik bat reads poetry at a nightclub
    • Cartoon about a lizard and his lunchbox
  • Fred Calvert
    • Speech Balloon series
    • A for astronaut, airplane, airport and automobile, A for Acrobats
    • B for bongo, B is for bubbles, B is for bear, Jack waters a B, B for banana and ballerina, B for Beard, B for Boxer (poem by Edward Lear)
    • C for Cat
    • E for eagle and egg, E for elephant and elk, nominees for best E animal (voice of Casey Kasem)
    • H for horseshoe, H for hola, H for hello (voices of Joan Gerber and Gary Owens)
    • J for Jam
    • K for kitten (mother cat carries man away)
    • L for Lion
    • M for milk
    • O for orange
    • P for pillow, P is for Painting, P for pack
    • Q for quarter (Kasem again: "That's right, 25 cents!")
    • U for uniform
    • W for wash
    • Y for Yak
  • Bruce Cayard (with John Canemaker and Artist Mike)
    • Old woman feeds cats
    • "I love my bones" (voice of John Stephenson)
    • The noble ostrich
    • "Guess who I met today?
    • "If You've Lost Your 'L'"
    • "Me and My 'M'"
    • Snacks on Parade series
    • The cat who hated rain
    • The Celery Bunch
    • The Wasteroon Song
    • Two men on a park bench
    • How Andy Fritz Ate the Sun
    • A woman gets a letter O
    • A sick man
    • Kids try to guess
    • A gorilla applies for a job
    • A boy draws a portrait
    • Monster in the dark
  • Tee Collins
    • Nancy the nanny goat
    • Wanda the witch
  • Vince Collins
    • Magician makes birds morph into fish
  • Sally Cruikshank
    • Above It All (I Love To Fly)
    • In With The In Crowd
    • I'm Curious
    • Part of the Whole
    • Island of Emotion
    • From Your Head
    • Dance Myself to Sleep
    • Oh What a Fabulous Party
    • Beginning Middle and End
    • Your Feets Too Big
    • A Zerkel Named Dan
    • Gerald's Dog Sparky
  • Steven Dovas
    • Bellhop number series
  • Teresa Drilling and Will Vinton
    • Cecille The Ball (singing voice of Michele Mariana)
    • A clay boy crosses the street
  • Ray Favata
    • Billy Jo Jive series
    • Mother and child cross busy street
  • Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Fierlinger
    • Teeny Little Super Guy (voice of Jim Thurman)
    • 6 Soccer Socks
    • Using a map to find a place to park
    • Little Red Riding Hood Plans Ahead
    • Louis James Hates School
    • It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
    • Rainbowland
    • Alice Kadeezenberry
    • What Do We Do Before We Eat?
    • Dinner for 9
    • Jazz Alphabet
    • A boy talks about customs in Indonesia
    • An orchestra conductor
    • Shakey Piano
  • Jim Henson
    • Claymation series for first season
    • The King of 8
    • Number 11 Cheer
  • Jeff Hale
    • "There Are Chickens in the Trees"
    • The Ringmaster series
    • The Typewriter Guy
    • Gathering Apples
    • Edgar Turtle sings
    • Madrigal alphabet
    • Pinball Number Count
  • John Korty
    • "Do you want part of my orange?"
    • Irritated bird and the 3 boxes
    • What's inside the street, according to a little bird
    • Thelma Thumb series
    • Pat the Pilot
  • Harvey Kurtzman
    • Numbers 1 to 20 get into rowboat
    • Roll call of numbers 1 to 20
    • Nellie
    • Two pirates plan a voyage
    • Two cavemen argue over
    • A man uses a wheelbarrow
    • An old man recites a poem
    • A small man tries to use a see-saw
    • a girl goes around the city to look for her lost kitty
  • Derek Lamb
    • It Ain't Bad to Get Mad
    • Simple Simon and the re-arranged animals ("Now I know what's wrong! Sheep don't wear boots!")
  • Bud Luckey
    • "Ladybugs' Picnic #12"
    • "It's A Lovely 11 Morning"
    • "10 Turtles"
    • "Martian Beauty #9"
    • "Penny Candy Man #8"
    • "The Alligator King #7"
    • "Country 6 (Snail Song)"
    • "Country 5 (Funny Farm)"
    • "4 Big Lions"
    • "Number '3' Song" (trios of animals on woman's lap)
    • "Country 2 (Toucan 2-step)"
    • "That's About The Size Of It" -- Original Title: "Infinity"
    • "Longy & Shorty the Rattlesnakes -- Over There"
    • "Longy & Shorty the Rattlesnakes -- Next To"
    • "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Nine"
    • "Same/Different Boxes" (Live Actors in Stop Motion)
    • "Lucky 13"
    • "Eighteen (and I Don't Know What I Want)"
    • "Big Flea Little Flea"
    • "Adding up five ladybugs and five lizards"
    • "Indian guru counts to 20"
    • "Jazz #8"
    • "4 Carpenters"
    • The number 5 shows up in Antarctica.
  • Janet Perlman
    • "That elephant just won't listen."
  • Joanna Priestley
    • Shy girl wants to join three other children (border changes constantly throughout)
  • Cliff Roberts
    • Christopher Clumsy series
    • Jasper and Julius series
    • A with accumulating pile of objects
    • Q with quivering tail
    • X as last letter of words: ax, fox, box, etc.
    • Picnic with P foods
    • Words that rhyme with Ball
    • A showcase of things
    • A man displays the capital and lowercase A
    • A man gets a letter C
    • Dry and Wet
    • Are you the monster that ate the television?
    • Letter G drawing
    • V in outer space
    • Man coughs and sneezes
    • Small letter b (ball/bat)
    • A boxer explains the letter "B".
    • A girl loses her letter L
    • Willie Wimple: Land Pollution
    • J Under Man's Hat
    • The Yellow Yahoo
  • David Rudman and Adam Rudman
    • The Number Guy (banjo player)
  • Elwood Smith
    • "Name That Food" game show
    • Two children try to revive a droopy plant
  • Unknown animator
    • Aviator asks grocer for 5 pounds of bubble gum
    • Measuring for a doghouse
    • Shoemaker measures people's feet
    • Imagination Car
    • A Girl Fantasizes
    • An Alien Comes
    • A space shuttle
    • Parts of a Face
    • Circles and Squares
    • Circles, and a wadded up napkin
    • Amor, amor, amor ... amoramor ... amoramor
    • A heart that says "I love you" is drawn
    • Stop!
    • Q-quiet! (tree chopping)
    • Drawing of man playing guitar
    • A beaver does his exercises
    • How many legs does a horse have?
    • Adventure!
    • A clam tells a fisherman
    • A photographer shows
    • A pencil tries to write the word Dance!
    • At the Coastline
  • Irra Verbitsky
    • Fruta Manzana (singing voice of Madeline Kahn)
    • Cousin Canny
    • Cooperation
    • Tweliva
    • Moving Day
    • The Magician's Bad Day
    • A Girl Imagines
    • Two hippie kids
    • Two kids argue
    • A cowboy sings about feelings
    • Two kids argue over whose chair
    • Wilma Wiggins
    • "I made you another Igor."
  • Gahan Wilson
    • Space orchestra
    • Alligator and elephant
    • Animals escape from a building and encounter an ice cream salesman
    • The Bridgekeeper series ("No one crosses this bridge by me, unless they can answer my questions three.")
  • Roscoe Orman
    • Uppercase letter changes to lowercase form (series of 26)

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