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Frank Oz

Highest Rated:
97% Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Lowest Rated:
26% The Stepford Wives (2004)
Birthday:
May 25, 1944
Birthplace:
Hereford, England, UK
Bio:
Born in Hereford, England, Frank Oz (born Frank Oznowicz) graduated from California's Oakland City College during 1962 and joined the humans behind Jim Henson's fledgling Muppet group as a puppeteer the following year. He was part of the first-season cast of Saturday Night Live as the Mighty Favag…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 26% - 97%
Number of Movies: 47
Box Office Since 2001: $1543.6M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Monsters University
  • Actor
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2012 57% Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (in 3D)
  • Yoda
$23.0M
2011 94% Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
  • Frank Oz
$0.3M
2009 Sesame Street: Elmo's Animal Adventures
  • Actor
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2009 Muppets 201: Rarities from the Henson Vault
  • Actor
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2007 61% Death at a Funeral
  • Director
$8.4M
2005 Piggy Banks (Born Killers)
  • Actor
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2005 75% Zathura
  • Robot
$28.0M
2005 80% Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
  • Yoda
$380.2M
2004 26% The Stepford Wives
  • Director
$59.3M
2004 Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
  • Actor
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2002 67% Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
  • Yoda
$310.3M
2002 89% It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
  • Animal
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2001 95% Monsters, Inc.
  • Fungus
$255.7M
2001 73% The Score
  • Director
$70.3M
1999 77% The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
  • Bert
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1999 80% Bowfinger
  • Director
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1999 63% Muppets From Space
  • Animal
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1998 44% Blues Brothers 2000
  • Prison Warden
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1997 72% In & Out
  • Director
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1996 70% Muppet Treasure Island
  • Benjamina Gunn (Miss Piggy)
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1995 68% The Indian in the Cupboard
  • Director
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1994 World of Jim Henson
  • Actor
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1992 38% Innocent Blood
  • Pathologist
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1992 39% Housesitter
  • Director
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1992 68% The Muppet Christmas Carol
  • Animal
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1991 82% What About Bob?
  • Director
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1990 The Muppets at Walt Disney World
  • Actor
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1990 The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
  • Actor
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1988 88% Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Director
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1987 A Muppet Family Christmas
  • Actor
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1986 62% Labyrinth
  • The Wiseman
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1986 89% Little Shop of Horrors
  • Director
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1985 35% Spies Like Us
  • Test Monitor
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1985 91% Sesame Street Presents - Follow that Bird
  • Bert
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1984 81% The Muppets Take Manhattan
  • Director
  • Animal
  • Screenwriter
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1983 79% Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
  • Yoda
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1983 89% Trading Places
  • Corrupt Cop
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1982 Return of the Ewok
  • Actor
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1982 71% The Dark Crystal
  • Director
  • Aughra
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1981 74% The Great Muppet Caper
  • Producer
  • Animal
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1981 88% An American Werewolf in London
  • Mr. Collins
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1980 85% The Blues Brothers
  • Corrections Officer
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1980 97% Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  • Yoda
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1979 90% The Muppet Movie
  • Animal
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1977 Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
  • Actor
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1969 Sesame Street: Let's Make Music
  • Actor
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Quotes from Frank Oz's Characters

    1. Kermit the Frog: [navigating in the Studebaker] Bear left.
    2. Fozzie Bear: Right, frog.
    From The Muppet Movie. Submitted by Francis L (15 days ago)
    1. Fozzie Bear: Ahh, a bear in his natural habitat - a Studebaker.
    From The Muppet Movie. Submitted by Francis L (15 days ago)
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