Richard Hunt

Biography

Richard Hunt (August 17, 1951 – January 7, 1992) was an American puppeteer, best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and other projects for The Jim Henson Company. His roles on The Muppet Show included Scooter, Statler, Janice, Beaker, and Sweetums and characters on Sesame Street included Gladys the Cow, Don Music, and Forgetful Jones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Hunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Trading Places (1983) — Wilson
2. The Muppet Movie (1979) — Scooter / Statler / Janice / Sweetums / Beaker / Fozzie Bear (assistant) (voice)
3. Saturday Night Live (1975) — King Ploobis’s Right Hand (voice)
4. The Cosby Show (1984) — Statler / Blue Frackle / Sandwich (voice)
5. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) — Scooter / Statler / Janice / Beaker / Dog (voice)
6. The Muppet Show (1976) — Statler, Scooter / Janice / Beaker / Wayne / Sweetums (voice)
7. The Great Muppet Caper (1981) — Scooter / Statler / Sweetums / Janice / Beaker / Bellhop Rat / Bubba / Gramps / Monster / Singing Food / Cab Driver
8. Sesame Street (1969)
9. Fraggle Rock (1983) — Junior Gorg (himself) / Gunge / Mudwell the Mudbunny / Herkimer Fraggle / The Spiderfly / Gillis Fraggle / Turbo / The Genie / Purple Fragglette / Fire Chief Fraggle / Flex Doozer / Background Fraggles (voice)
10. A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) — Scooter / Janice / Statler / Beaker / Gladys the Cow / Two-Headed Monster / Snowman (voice)
11. Follow That Bird (1985) — Gladys the Cow / Feathered Friends Owl / Additional Muppets / Grouches (voice)
12. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) — Charlie / Lizard / George Rabbit (voice)
13. The Oscars (1953) — Scooter / Statler
14. Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) — Self (archive footage)
15. Oxford Blues (1984) — Larry
16. The Christmas Toy (1986) — Belmont (voice)
17. Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series (1987)
18. The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990) — Scooter / Beaker / Janice (voice)
19. The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979) — Various Muppets
20. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978) — Ernie (assistant) / Additional Muppets (voice)
21. John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979) — Scooter / Statler / Janice / Beaker (voice)
22. The Muppets at Walt Disney World (1990) — Scooter / Statler / Janice / Beaker / Tug Monster / Frog (voice)
23. Rocky Mountain Holiday with John Denver and the Muppets (1983) — Scooter / Janice / Statler / Bubba (voice)
24. The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981) — Beaker / Janice / Scooter / Sheriff / Statler (voice)
25. The Earth Day Special (1990) — Crocodile (voice)
26. Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince (1971) — Aunt Taminella
27. The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972) — Chicken / Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
28. The Great Santa Claus Switch (1970) — Bing / Match Frackle (voice)
29. The Tale of the Bunny Picnic (1986) — Lugsy (voice)
30. The World of Jim Henson (1994) — Self (archive footage)
31. Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983) — Muppet Performer (voice)
32. Big Bird in China (1983) — Two-Headed Monster (voice)
33. The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986) — Beaker / Scooter / Statler / Sweetums / Janice / Two-Headed Monster (Stein) / Tug Monster (voice)
34. Of Muppets & Men (1981) — Self
35. The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show (1982) — Scooter / Janice / Beaker (voice)
36. Sesame Street: Elmo Says BOO! (1997) — Kermit the Forg / Frazzletone (archive footage)
37. Muppet Video: The Kermit and Piggy Story (1985)
38. Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie's Word Play (2002) — Harry (voice) (archive footage)
39. Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004) — Forgetful Jones (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
40. Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! (1990) — Gladys the Cow / Forgetful Jones / Don Music (voice)

Directed

1. Fraggle Rock (1983) — Director
2. Sesame Street: Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game (1991) — Director
3. Jim Henson: Sing-Along, Dance-Along, Do-Along (1988) — Director