The same year, Jim Henson's dark fantasy Labyrinth found him with the part of Jareth, the king of the goblins.

He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Animal, one of puppeteer Jim Henson's characters from the Muppets TV show and movies, was rumored to have been based on Keith Moon, due to the fact that both share similar hair, eyebrows, outrageous personality and wild drumming style.

The costume for Polyphemus was provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop with David Barclay operating the face of Polyphemus.

Since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Henson's Muppet creations exposure ; however, Henson began to perceive that he was pigeonholed as a children's entertainer.

In 1985, Playhouse Video released a collection of video compilations under the Jim Henson's Muppet Video banner.

Unique to each episode was an introduction by Jim Henson's son, Brian.

The promo video, produced in conjunction with the Jim Henson's Creature Shop, featured the band with comical " muppet " bodies.

* Jim Henson's Storyteller series contains one tale called ' A Story Short ' in which the Storyteller himself ( played by John Hurt ) is the main character.

The program is known for its educational content, and creativity communicated through the use of Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, short films, humor, and cultural references.

Miss Piggy of Jim Henson's Muppet Babies copied the hairdo with doughnuts in a Star Wars-centric episode of the series.

A graphic adventure game based on Jim Henson's fantasy film, The Dark Crystal.

His work has been used as the inspiration for creatures in films such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth ( both in conjunction with Jim Henson's Creature Shop ).

Fraggle Rock ( also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock ) is a children's live action puppet television

George Martin's AIR recording studios, in converted church premises in Lyndhurst Road, is a current example, as Jim Henson's Creature Shop was, before it relocated to California.

Oz is known for his work as a puppeteer, performing with Jim Henson's Muppets.

Oz worked as a puppeteer, performing with Jim Henson's Muppets.

* Jim Henson's Fantastic World: May 23-August 16, 2009

Jim Henson's Fantastic World offers a rare peek into the imagination and creative genius of this multitalented innovator and creator of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and other beloved characters.

* Singer, actor, and sausage entrepreneur Jimmy Dean, known for his sketches with Jim Henson's Muppet Rowlf the Dog.

A goof is seen when Jim Henson's head and arm are seen when Mahna Mahna goes into the background.

Other studios ' offerings chipped away at the H-B Saturday dominance throughout the decade, such as H-B alumni Ruby-Spears Productions ' Alvin and the Chipmunks, Marvel and Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, DiC and Columbia's The Real Ghostbusters, and Film Roman's Garfield and Friends.

Baker's other films include The Elephant Man, Time Bandits ( also with Purvis ), Amadeus and Jim Henson's Labyrinth.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

While many probably expected the Jaguars to just be happy to be there, the Jaguars won 30 – 27, and knocked Buffalo QB Jim Kelly out of what would turn out to be the last game of his career.

1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.

Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly was one of the last to regularly call plays.

The Jim Rose Circus held its last known performance in 2005 at the Fright Dome at Circus Circus in Las Vegas, but some of its performers still tour individually.

Representing the last generation of black leaders born into slavery, Washington was generally perceived as a supporter of education for freedmen in the post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow-era South.

The 1995 Baen edition includes both endings ( which differ only on the last page ), Jim Baen's own edited postlude to the story, and a collection of readers ' essays giving their opinions about which ending is better.

The last major instance where a representative voted for the other party's candidate was in 2000, when Democrat Jim Traficant of Ohio voted for Republican Dennis Hastert.

" DiCaprio's last film of the year 1995 was The Basketball Diaries, a biopic about Jim Carroll.

Because the minor league team that last held Jim Thorpe's contract had disbanded in 1910, he found himself in the rare position of being a sought after free agent at the major league level during the era of the reserve clause, and thus had a choice of baseball teams for which to play.

Originally assigned to the network's # 2 crew ( and therefore, work with Jim Kaat ), he was promoted at practically the last minute after Brent Musburger was fired on April Fools Day of 1990.

Most umpires made the switch to the inside protector, led by Don Denkinger in 1975 and Jim Evans two years later, although several did not, including Bill Haller, Lou DiMuro, George Maloney and Jerry Neudecker, who became the last Major League umpire to use the outside protector in 1985.

Liza's last visitor is Jim, but Liza is already in a coma.

The Doors were the supporting act on the last week, and Morrison's influence on The Doors singer, Jim Morrison, was noted by John Densmore in his book Riders On The Storm.

On television, Burton has helped dramatize the last days of Jim Jones's suicide cult in Guyana, the life and times of Jesse Owens, and the life of the nine-year-old Booker T. Washington.

* The last out of the 1973 National League Championship Series as described by Jim Simpson was played on that night's NBC Nightly News, but other than that the entire game is gone.

During the last decades of the 19th and the first of the 20th, Tennessee, like other southern states, passed laws and constitutional amendments establishing Jim Crow law: racial segregation in public facilities, restrictions of voting for blacks, and similar measures.

The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and its establishment of Jim Crow laws closed out the 19th-Century with civil rights injustices which would last until the African-American Civil Rights Movement through the second half of the 20th century, three generations later.

Jim died very soon after, so Jughead sat in with Jim's friends on the corner to play one last, mournful version of " St. James Infirmary Blues ".

Jim Kessler was the last pastor at the Nazarene church.

* Jim Dowd, ( born 1968 ), former player in the National Hockey League ( NHL ), won a Stanley Cup with the 1994-95 New Jersey Devils and last played for the Philadelphia Flyers.