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      Dave Goelz

      Dave Goelz

      Highest Rated: 100% Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)

      Lowest Rated: 63% Muppets From Space (1999)

      Birthday: Jul 16, 1946

      Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

      After becoming intrigued by the puppetry and set design on the hit children's television show "Sesame Street," puppeteer and voice actor Dave Goelz was able to get a meeting with one with the show's creators, Jim Henson, and was offered a job as a Muppet builder. Goelz's first "appearance" on a Muppet-related program was 1974's half-hour special, "The Muppets Valentine Show," for which Goelz created and performed the character Brewster. Afterwards, he was offered a full-time job, and worked on another special, 1975's "The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence," for which he built the show's host, Nigel. However, the late 70s was when Goelz truly came into his own in the Muppet world, providing the voice for several characters in the popular holiday program "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" (1977). But more significantly, a year earlier, Goelz became a major player in the creation and performance of various Muppets on the prime-time television series "The Muppet Show," for which he performed such beloved characters as Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and Zoot. In the wake of the show's success (for which Goelz and his co-workers won an Emmy in 1978), he has either voiced or performed puppetry for the television show "Fraggle Rock" and the movie "Labyrinth," and is the voice actor for Disney's Figment.

      Highest rated movies

      84% I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
      78% The Great Muppet Caper

      Photos

      The Muppets, Steve Whitmire (L), Dave Goelz (R), 'Going, Going, Gonzo', Season 1, Ep. #9, 12/01/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Steve Whitmire (L), Dave Goelz (R), 'Going, Going, Gonzo', Season 1, Ep. #9, 12/01/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz (L), Eric Jacobson (R), 'Hostile Makeover', Season 1, Ep. #2, 09/29/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz (L), Steve Whitmire (R), 'Hostile Makeover', Season 1, Ep. #2, 09/29/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz, 'Hostile Makeover', Season 1, Ep. #2, 09/29/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Steve Whitmire (L), Dave Goelz (R), 'Too Hot To Handler', Season 1, Ep. #8, 11/17/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz, 'Little Green Lie', Season 1, Ep. #14, 02/23/2016, ©ABC The Muppets, Bill Barretta (L), Dave Goelz (R), 'Got Silk?', Season 1, Ep. #13, 02/16/2016, ©ABC The Muppets, David Rudman (L), Dave Goelz (R), 'Hostile Makeover', Season 1, Ep. #2, 09/29/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz, 'Got Silk?', Season 1, Ep. #13, 02/16/2016, ©ABC The Muppets, from left: Eric Jacobson, David Rudman, Matt Vogel, Kristin Chenoweth, Bill Barretta, Dave Goelz, 'The Ex-Factor', Season 1, Ep. #6, 11/03/2015, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz, 'Got Silk?', Season 1, Ep. #13, 02/16/2016, ©ABC The Muppets, Dave Goelz (L), Matt Vogel (R), 'Pig's in a Blackout', Season 1, Ep. #7, 11/10/2015, ©ABC

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      91% 96% Inside Out 2 Mind Cop Frank (Voice) - 2024
      100% 91% Jim Henson Idea Man Self - 2024
      73% 63% Muppets Haunted Mansion Unknown (Voice) - 2021
      84% 80% I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story Unknown (Character) $13.0K 2014
      95% 80% The Muppets Gonzo (Voice) $88.6M 2011
      No Score Yet 50% Kermit's Swamp Years Waldorf (Voice) - 2002
      77% 64% The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland Humongous Chicken (Voice) $11.6M 1999
      63% 58% Muppets From Space Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (Voice) $16.3M 1999
      71% 77% Muppet Treasure Island The Great Gonzo / Dr. Bunsen Honeydew / Waldorf / Mudwell the Mudbunny / Zoot (Voice) $34.3M 1996
      No Score Yet 73% Muppet Classic Theater Unknown (Character) - 1994
      77% 86% The Muppet Christmas Carol The Great Gonzo/Dr. Bunsen Honeydew/Zoot (Voice) $27.4M 1992
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Dog City: The Movie Frisky (Voice) - 1989
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Song of the Cloud Forest Milton (Voice) - 1988
      No Score Yet 81% A Muppet Family Christmas Unknown (Character) - 1987
      No Score Yet 76% The Christmas Toy Unknown (Character) - 1986
      85% 76% The Muppets Take Manhattan The Great Gonzo (Voice) - 1984
      78% 78% The Great Muppet Caper The Great Gonzo/Beauregard/Zoot/Dr. Bunsen Honeydew/Lobbuck Lou (Character) - 1981
      100% 85% Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas Wendel, Pop-eyed Catfish (Voice) - 1977

      TV

      Credit
      100% 91% Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Boober (Voice),
      Co-Executive Producer
      2022 2024
      86% 94% The Muppets Mayhem Zoot (Voice) 2023
      69% 49% Muppets Now The Great Gonzo/Dr. Bunson Honeydew/Waldorf (Voice) 2020
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Fraggle Rock: Rock On! Boober Fraggle (Voice) 2020
      89% 94% The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Baffi (Voice) 2019
      64% 73% The Muppets The Great Gonzo/Zoot (Voice) 2015-2016
      60% No Score Yet Muppets Tonight Unknown (Character) 1996-1998
      91% 79% Dinosaurs Male Grapdelite (Guest Voice) 1991
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Fraggle Rock Boober Fraggle (Voice) 1983-1987
      100% 90% The Muppet Show Gonzo (Character) 1974-1981