The alter ego of Big Bird, "Sesame Street's" Caroll Spinney, will fly off with this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Big Bird on "Sesame Street" on Aug. 29, 1988. Credit: AP. Big Bird, of the children's television show "Sesame Street," arrives at the Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Aug. 30, 2009. Credit ...

US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird ... Emmy award which he received in 2006. The puppeteer also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and the ...