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Bunraku Puppet

The Bunraku puppet represents a highly specialized form of Japanese theater. Originating in Osaka during the 17th centur...

Performance Theater Traditional Cultural

9.6 Brilliant

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War Horse Puppet (National Theatre)

The War Horse puppet is a remarkably detailed, life-sized equine constructed for the National Theatre’s production of Mi...

Performance Stage Theater Large Puppet

9.3 Excellent

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Howdy Doody

Howdy Doody is a vintage marionette created for NBC’s The Howdy Doody Show. He was notable as a pioneering figure in chi...

Vintage American Marionette Nbc

8.9 Great

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Beany

Beany is a boy puppet created by Bob Clampett for Time for Beany (1949), distinguished by his signature propeller beanie...

Vintage American Marionette Boy

8.5 Great

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Mr. Punch

Mr. Punch is the hook-nosed, hunchbacked trickster at the centre of the traditional British Punch and Judy glove puppet...

Traditional British Slapstick Hand Puppet

8.3 Great

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Lady Penelope (Thunderbirds)

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is International Rescue's London agent in Gerry Anderson's British Supermarionation series...

Character Marionette Supermarionation Gerry Anderson

8.3 Great

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Tyrone (Hand to God)

Tyrone is the demonic sock puppet alter ego of repressed teenager Jason in Hand to God, a dark comedy that transferred t...

Character Theater Broadway Hand Puppet

8.3 Great

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Little Amal

Little Amal is a 3.5-metre-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee girl created by Handspring Puppet Company, first walked from...

Performance Theater Contemporary Large Street Puppet

8.3 Great

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Parker (Thunderbirds)

Parker is Lady Penelope's ex-convict chauffeur in Gerry Anderson's British Supermarionation series Thunderbirds (1965–19...

Character Marionette Supermarionation Gerry Anderson

8.2 Great

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Brains (Thunderbirds)

Brains is the bespectacled chief scientist who designed all five Thunderbird vehicles for International Rescue in Gerry...

Character Marionette Supermarionation Gerry Anderson

8.2 Great

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Guignol

Guignol is the main character of Lyon's traditional French puppet theatre, created by Laurent Mourguet around 1808 as a...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

7.7 Good

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Hurvínek

Hurvínek is a popular Czech marionette created by Josef Skupa in 1926, famously known as the mischievous son in the inte...

Theater Traditional Czech Marionette

7.7 Good

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Karagöz

Karagöz is the lead character of traditional Turkish shadow puppetry, originating during the Ottoman period and recogniz...

Theater Traditional Satirical Turkish

7.5 Good

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Spejbl

Spejbl is a renowned Czech marionette created by Josef Skupa in 1920, notable for his plaid jacket and role as the bumbl...

Theater Traditional Czech Marionette

7.4 Good

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Polichinelle

Polichinelle is the French theatrical adaptation of the Italian commedia dell'arte character Pulcinella, a hunchbacked t...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

7.3 Good

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Hacivat

Hacivat is a main character in traditional Turkish shadow puppetry, acting as the educated and poetic foil to the uneduc...

Theater Traditional Turkish Foil

7.2 Good

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Gnafron

Gnafron is Guignol's wine-loving cobbler best friend in the traditional Lyon puppet theatre, co-created by Laurent Mourg...

French Theater Traditional Hand Puppet

6.8 Fair

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Don Cristóbal

Don Cristóbal is the traditional Spanish puppet theatre equivalent of Mr. Punch, a hook-nosed glove puppet rooted in And...

Theater Spanish Traditional Andalusian

6.5 Fair

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Kasperle

Kasperle is the beloved trickster hero of German-language puppet theatre, a glove puppet character originating in Bavari...

Theater Traditional Hand Puppet Jester

6.4 Fair

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Jan Klaassen

Jan Klaassen is a traditional Dutch puppet character originating in the 17th century, notable as the local variation of...

Theater Traditional Dutch Clown

6.3 Fair