Brian Henson
☼ Born on 3 December 1963, in New York City, New York, USA
BiographyBrian, the son of Jim Henson, grew up with his parents who had created The Muppets, Playing with puppets alongside his brother and 3 sisters was natural to him. By the time he was 17 he had enough skill as a puppeteer to perform with his father in The Great Muppet Caper but he didn't think the muppet life was for him and wanted to do something different. He decided to go to college and either become an engineer or go into the aerospace industry. After a few months at the University of Colorado he found the pull of puppeteering stronger than he thought so he decided to take a year out and return to New York to re consider things. During that time he picked up one puppeteering credit after another including supervising the performers manipulating Audrey II, the man eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors and being chief puppeteer on The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles followed by directing Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories which were aired on the Disney Channel. He started directing under his father who had him directing background performers while he directed the foreground. He advanced further becoming co executive producer for the television series Dinosaurs and becoming president of Jim Henson Productions.
In the role of director
The Happytime Murders (25/08/2018)
A puppet private detective and his former police partner try to solve a string of homicides in The Happytime Murders. Phil Philips (Bill Barretta) is a disgraced former police detective, who now works as a private investigator. While investigating a blackmail case for his new client Sandra (Dorien Davies), Phil finds himself in the middle of a […]