Caroll Spinney, Oscar's regular performer, once recalled the Grouch's other half: "The first time he [Oscar] got to move around was when one of the writers had the idea of cutting the bottom of the can & making legs out of Oscar's green fur. A little person would be needed to get in this costume, & the man for the job was Hervé Villechaize, who I got to know. Later Hervé became famous for the role of Tattoo on Fantasy Island, but I had actually 1st seen him in a very strange play at Manhattan's La Mama Theater, in which he was riding around on a tall, skinny guy who was making chicken sounds. Hervé was an intellectual, very thoughtful, & quite an artist."
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| - Caroll Spinney, Oscar's regular performer, once recalled the Grouch's other half: "The first time he [Oscar] got to move around was when one of the writers had the idea of cutting the bottom of the can & making legs out of Oscar's green fur. A little person would be needed to get in this costume, & the man for the job was Hervé Villechaize, who I got to know. Later Hervé became famous for the role of Tattoo on Fantasy Island, but I had actually 1st seen him in a very strange play at Manhattan's La Mama Theater, in which he was riding around on a tall, skinny guy who was making chicken sounds. Hervé was an intellectual, very thoughtful, & quite an artist."
- Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor who played the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun with Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Following the film, he achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island, which ran from 1978–1984. He was also an acclaimed painter. He committed suicide by shooting himself in 1993.
- Caroll Spinney recalled the Grouch's other half: “The first time he [Oscar] got to move around was when one of the writers had the idea of cutting the bottom of the can and making legs out of Oscar's green fur. A little person would be needed to get in this costume, and the man for the job was Hervé Villechaize, who I got to know. Later Hervé became famous for the role of Tattoo on Fantasy Island, but I had actually first seen him in a very strange play at Manhattan's La Mama Theater, in which he was riding around on a tall, skinny guy who was making chicken sounds. Hervé was an intellectual, very thoughtful, and quite an artist.”
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| - Caroll Spinney, Oscar's regular performer, once recalled the Grouch's other half: "The first time he [Oscar] got to move around was when one of the writers had the idea of cutting the bottom of the can & making legs out of Oscar's green fur. A little person would be needed to get in this costume, & the man for the job was Hervé Villechaize, who I got to know. Later Hervé became famous for the role of Tattoo on Fantasy Island, but I had actually 1st seen him in a very strange play at Manhattan's La Mama Theater, in which he was riding around on a tall, skinny guy who was making chicken sounds. Hervé was an intellectual, very thoughtful, & quite an artist."
- Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French actor who played the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun with Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Following the film, he achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island, which ran from 1978–1984. He was also an acclaimed painter. He committed suicide by shooting himself in 1993.
- Caroll Spinney recalled the Grouch's other half: “The first time he [Oscar] got to move around was when one of the writers had the idea of cutting the bottom of the can and making legs out of Oscar's green fur. A little person would be needed to get in this costume, and the man for the job was Hervé Villechaize, who I got to know. Later Hervé became famous for the role of Tattoo on Fantasy Island, but I had actually first seen him in a very strange play at Manhattan's La Mama Theater, in which he was riding around on a tall, skinny guy who was making chicken sounds. Hervé was an intellectual, very thoughtful, and quite an artist.” Outside of Fantasy Island and Sesame Street, Villechaize played Nick Nack, the murderous henchman to Scaramanga, in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. His other movie credits included such varied titles as The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight (with Paul Benedict), Seizure, Forbidden Zone, and Airplane II: The Sequel. His brother, Patrick Villechaize, directed episodes of the French co-production of Fraggle Rock.
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