Frank Richard Oznowicz (born May 25, 1944), known professionally as Frank Oz, is a British-born American film director, actor, voice actor, and puppeteer. He is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show and for directing films, including the Little Shop Of Horrors remake and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He is also the operator and voice of Yoda in the Star Wars franchise.

Filmography

• 2025The Muppets Take Scripthatten — Original Film Writer
• 2025fozzie descuido venga la alegría — Fozzie
• 2024Inside Out 2 — Mind Cop Dave (voice)
• 2023Fuzzy Head — Executive Producer
• 2023S.P.I.C. — Executive Producer
• 2022Jerry Nelson: A Celebratory Birthday Animatic — Grover (voice) / Cookie Monster (voice) / others (voice)
• Obi-Wan Kenobi — Yoda (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2021Echoes of Violence — Dante
• 2020Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself — Director
• Jedi Temple Challenge — Yoda (voice)
• 2020Muppet Guys Talking: A Special Conversation to Honor Jim Henson — Self, Director
• 2019Knives Out — Alan Stevens
• 2019Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting — Grover / Cookie Monster / Various Characters
• 2019Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — Yoda (voice)
• 2017Muppet Guys Talking: Secrets Behind the Show the Whole World Watched — Self, Director
• 2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Yoda (voice)
• 2015Inside Out — Subconscious Guard Dave (voice)
• 2015Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!
• 2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Yoda (archive sound) (uncredited)
• 2015The Great Gilly Hopkins — Cookie Monster (voice)
• 2014Jim Henson: Behind the Seams
• Star Wars Rebels — Yoda (voice)
• 2009Jim Henson's Tales from Muppetland
• 2009Jim Henson: His Sesame Street Story
• Leverage — Director
• 2007Death at a Funeral — Director
• 2006A Sesame Street Christmas Carol — Bert (voice) (archive footage)
• 2006Sesame Street: Elmo's Potty Time — Grover (voice)
• 2006The Sound of the Squid — Squid
• 2005Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith — Yoda (voice)
• 2005Zathura: A Space Adventure — Robot (voice)
• 2004Jim Henson: Commercials and Experiments
• 2004Muppet History 101
• 2004Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover — Grover (voice) (archive footage)
• 2004Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites — Cookie Monster (voice)
• 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! — Cookie Monster / Bert / Grover (voice)
• 2004The Stepford Wives — Director
• 2004The Story of Star Wars — Yoda (archive footage)
• 2003Muppets Magic from 'The Ed Sullivan Show!' — Muppet Performer
• 2003Sesame Street: Let's Eat! Funny Food Songs — Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 2002Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie's Word Play — Bert / Cookie Monster (credit song) / T-Shirt Salesman / Fat Blue Anything Muppet in Fat Cat (voice) (archive footage)
• Sesame Street: Play with Me Sesame
• 2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — Yoda (voice)
• The Funkhousers — Director
• 2001Monsters, Inc. — Jeff Fungus (voice)
• 2001The Score — Director
• 2001The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 3 — Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Sam the Eagle / Animal / Wolf
• 2000Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Flowers, Bananas & More! — Prince Charming (voice)
• 1999Bowfinger — Director
• 1999CinderElmo — Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1999Muppets from Space — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle (voice)
• Sesame Unpaved
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Yoda (voice)
• 1999The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland — Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1999The Very Best of the Muppet Show — Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / Sam the Eagle
• 1999The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 2 — Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / Sam the Eagle
• 1998Blues Brothers 2000 — Warden
• 1998Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! — Grover / Cookie Monster / Bert (voice)
• 1998The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street — Grover (voice)
• 1997Eye of God — Thanks
• 1997In & Out — Director
• 1997Sesame Street: Elmo Says BOO! — Bert (voice)
• 1997Sesame Street: Quiet Time — Bert ("Naptime") (voice)
• 1996Muppet Treasure Island — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Sam the Eagle / Animal (voice), Producer
• Muppets Tonight — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / George the Janitor
• 1996Sesame Street: Do the Alphabet — Cookie Monster / Green (voice) (archive footage)
• 1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas — Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1996Sesame Street: Kid's Guide to Life: Learning to Share — Cookie Monster
• 1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
• 1995The Indian in the Cupboard — Director
• 1994Muppet Classic Theater — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)
• 1994Return of the Ewok — Yoda
• 1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! — Bert / Grover (archive footage)
• 1993Sesame Street Stays Up Late! — Bert/Grover/Cookie Monster/Uncle Hank(voice)
• 1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration — Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1993Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years: A Musical Celebration! — Grover
• 1992Getting Ready to Read — Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1992Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' — Miss Piggy
• 1992Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — Man Putting Money into Donation Bucket (uncredited)
• 1992Housesitter — Director
• 1992Innocent Blood — Pathologist
• 1992The Muppet Christmas Carol — Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit / Fozzie Bear as Fozziewig / Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates / Animal / George the Janitor / Horse and Carriage Driver / Vegetable Salesman (voice), Executive Producer
• 1991Sesame Street: Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game — Grover(voice)
• 1991What About Bob? — Director
• 1990Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration — Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1990Jim Henson's Memorial Service
• 1990Sesame Street: Monster Hits! — Cookie Monster (voice) / Grover (voice) / Clancy (voice)
• 1990Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! — (archive footage) (voice)
• 1990The Muppets at Walt Disney World — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)
• 198950 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration — Miss Piggy
• 1989Miss Piggy's Hollywood — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear
• The Jim Henson Hour — Fozzie Bear (voice), Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)
• 1988Dirty Rotten Scoundrels — Director
• 1988Free to Be... a Family — Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1988Hey, You're as Funny as Fozzie Bear — Fozzie Bear (voice)
• 1988Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie — Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1988The Best of Ernie and Bert — Bert
• 1987A Muppet Family Christmas — Miss Piggy / Fozzy Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle / Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster
• 1987Sesame Street: Sing Along
• 1986Labyrinth — The Wiseman
• 1986Little Shop of Horrors — Director
• 1986Sesame Street: Learning About Letters — Cookie Monster/Bert/Grover/Princess Penelope (voice)
• 1986Sesame Street: Learning About Numbers — Grover / Fat Blue Tarnish Brother (voice)
• 1986Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories — Bert / Grover (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Cookie Monster (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Tallest and Smallest People (Bedtime Stories & Songs) (voice)
• 1986The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years — Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Sam the Eagle / Bert / Animal / Grover / Cookie Monster / Marvin Suggs (voice)
• 1985Children's Songs and Stories with the Muppets — Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1985Follow That Bird — Cookie Monster / Bert / Grover / Additional Muppets (voice)
• Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters
• 1985Muppet Perk-Up — Grump (voice)
• 1985Muppet Treasures — Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal
• 1985Muppet Video: Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)
• 1985Muppet Video: The Kermit and Piggy Story — Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1985Spies Like Us — Test Monitor
• 1985The Muppet Revue — Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1984The Muppets Take Manhattan — Miss Piggy / Fozzie / Animal / Bert / Cookie Monster / Ocean Breeze Soap Board Member / Sam the Eagle (voice), Director, Screenplay
• 1983Big Bird in China — Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
• 1983Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — Bert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)
• 1983Muppet Breakthrough — Grump
• 1983Return of the Jedi — Yoda (voice)
• 1983Rocky Mountain Holiday with John Denver and the Muppets — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Gramps (voice)
• 1983Trading Places — Corrupt Cop
• 1982I Love Liberty — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1982The Dark Crystal — Aughra, a Keeper of Secrets / Chamberlain, Director
• 1982The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)
• 1981An American Werewolf in London — Mr. Collins
• 1981Muppet Side Splitter — Grump (voice)
• 1981The Great Muppet Caper — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle / Gramps / Swedish Chef (voice), Producer
• 1981The Muppets Go to the Movies — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Sam the Eagle (voice)
• 1980The Blues Brothers — Corrections Officer
• 1980The Empire Strikes Back — Yoda (Voice)
• 1979A Walking Tour of Sesame Street — Grover / Cookie Monster / Bert (archive footage)
• 1979Grump Critic — Grump
• 1979John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)
• 1979Let's Have the Dam Break — Grump
• 1979Meal Break — Grump
• 1979Muppet Breaker Upper — Grump / Quongo
• 1979Muppet Gimme a Break — Grump
• 1979The Muppet Movie — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle / Doc Hopper's Men / Marvin Suggs / Swedish Chef (hands) / Motorcycle Guy (voice), Creative Consultant
• 1979The Muppets Go Hollywood — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam the Eagle (voice)
• An Audience with... — Miss Piggy
• 1978Christmas Eve on Sesame Street — Bert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice), Creative Consultant
• 1978Hip Hip Parade! — Fozzie Bear
• 1978Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear
• 1978The Vent Event — Fozzie Bear
• 1977Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas — Chuck (voice)
• 1977The Bob Hope All Star Christmas Comedy Special — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear
• 1977The Royal Variety Performance 1977
• 1976Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun! — George the Janitor, Fozzie Bear
• The Muppet Show — Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam Eagle / Marvin Suggs / George the Janitor (voice)
• 1975Just a Few Announcements — Sam the Eagle
• 1975Muppet Picker Upper — Sam the Eagle (voice)
• Saturday Night Live — The Mighty Favog (voice), The Flood (voice)
• 1975The Muppet Introduction — Sam the Eagle
• 1974Out to Lunch — Bert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)
• 1973Julie on Sesame Street — Bert/ Cookie Monster/ Grover (voice)
• 1972The Muppet Musicians of Bremen — Rat (voice)
• Great Performances — Self, Miss Piggy (voice)
• 1971Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince — Gawain (voice)
• 1970The Great Santa Claus Switch — Thig / Skippity / Hoppity / Boppity / Snerf (voice)
• 1969Hey Cinderella! — Stepsister #1 / Splurge (voice)
• Sesame Street — Bert/Cookie Monster/Grover
• 1969Sesame Street Pitch Reel — Scoop / Beautiful Day Monster (voice)
• 1969This Way to Sesame Street — Bert
• 1967The Paperwork Explosion
• 1965Run, Run — Director of Photography
• 1965Time Piece — Messenger Boy
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Miss Piggy (voice)
• The Oscars — Self, Miss Piggy

Appearances as themselves (43)

• 2025The Muppet Script — Self (archive footage)
• Disney Legends Award Ceremony — Self - Honoree
• 2024Jim Henson Idea Man — Self
• STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces — Self - Director
• LIGHT & MAGIC — Self - Yoda Puppeteer (archive footage)
• 2021Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Howard — Self (archive footage)
• 2018The Director and the Jedi — Self
• 2015I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story — Self
• In Their Own Words — Self
• 2015In Their Own Words: Jim Henson — Self - Friend & Muppet Performer
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2011Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey — Self
• 2007Reflections of 'The Dark Crystal' — Self
• 2006Best Ever Muppet Moments — Self
• 2006Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' — Self
• 2004Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• 2004Muppet Music Moments — Self
• 2004When Star Wars Ruled the World — Self
• 2002Films Are Not Released, They Escape — Self
• 2002From Puppets to Pixels: The Making of Star Wars Episode II — Self / Yoda
• 2002I Love Muppets — Self
• 2001Making "The Score" — Himself
• 2001The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I — Self
• 1998The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' — Self
• 1994The World of Jim Henson — Self / Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear
• 1990Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music — Self
• 1990The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson — Self / Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Bert / Sam the Eagle (voice)
• 1989An Evening with Jim Henson and Frank Oz — Self
• 1989Sesame Street: 20 Years & Still Counting! 1969-1989 — Self – Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster
• 1984Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets — Self
• 1983Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi — Self
• 1983The World of 'The Dark Crystal' — Self
• 1981Of Muppets & Men — Self
• 1980SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back — Self
• 1979The Orson Welles Show — Self / Fozzie Bear / Animal / Sam Eagle (voice)
• 1975Sesame Street- Do you know where Ernie lives? — Self
• 1970The Muppets on Puppets — Self / Various Characters
• Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self