- Born
- Died
- Birth nameKermit Ernest Hollingshead Love
- Kermit Love was born on August 7, 1916 in Spring Lake, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Muppet Movie (1979), Sesame Street (1969) and Follow That Bird (1985). He died on June 21, 2008 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
- 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.
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