- Also designed costumes and puppets for film and advertising, including the Snuggle bear from the fabric softener commercials.
- Costume designer who helped puppeteer Jim Henson create Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch and other Sesame Street (1969) characters.
- He began making puppets in 1935 for a Works Progress Administration (WPA) theater. He also designed costumes for Orson Welles' Mercury Theater.
- Partner of Christopher Lyall.
- He insisted that he was not the namesake of Kermit the Frog.
- Was also a designer for some of ballet's most prominent choreographers, including Twyla Tharp, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine.
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