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Franklin Burr Tillstrom (October 13, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois - December 6, 1985 in Palm Springs, California) was a puppeteer and the creator of ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie''. Tillstrom was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Bert and Alice Burr Tillstrom. He attended Senn High School in Chicago and later the University of Chicago. While still a freshman, he was offered a job setting up a marionette theater with the WPA-Chicago Parks District Theatre and took it. He turned his attention to puppetry in the early 1930s and created Kukla in 1936. Kukla remained nameless until the Russian ballerina Tamara Toumanova referred to him as ''kukla'', the Russian term for doll. Other famous puppets from the group included Ollie or Oliver J. Dragon, Beulah Witch, and Fletcher Rabbit. In 1939, he was invited to present his ''Kuklapolitan Players'' at the New York World's Fair. The following year, RCA sent him to Bermuda to perform on the first ship-to-shore broadcast. From 1947 through 1957, Tillstrom was involved with the ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie'' show which starred his puppets and Fran Allison. It is widely regarded as being the first children’s show to appeal to both children and adults, and counted Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Tallulah Bankhead, Adlai Stevenson and James Thurber among its many adult fans. 〔(''Burr’s Adult Fans'' (Classic Television) )〕Early in 1958, he appeared with the puppets on Polly Bergen's short-lived NBC variety show, ''The Polly Bergen Show''. With only a few exceptions, all of the shows were improvised. After the original series ended in 1957, Tillstrom continued to work with the Kuklapolitans. In 1970, ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie'' appeared on National Educational Television, taped at WTTW in Chicago, for two seasons. In 1975, ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie'' began another run on television with 13 new episodes. In 1977, The ''Kukla and Ollie Retrospective Stage Show'' tours began, a creation of the Artist-in-Residence program at Hope College. In 1978, Kukla, Burr and Ollie joined the Broadway cast of ''Side by Side by Sondheim'', a revue of Stephen Sondheim songs. 〔(''Side by Side by Sondheim'' )〕〔(''Tillstrom and the Kuklapolitans'' )〕 Tillstrom continued to perform with his ''Kuklapolitan Players'' until his death in 1985. On March 23, 1986, Burr Tillstrom was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame for his creativity and innovation in the medium. 〔(''Burr's Induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame'' )〕 The Saugatuck Douglas Art Club tribute to Burr was dedicated in 1988. 〔(''Burr Tillstrom Tribute'' )〕 The Burr Tillstrom Collection and Archives are maintained at the Chicago History Museum. 〔 (''Oral History, Film, and Video'' (Chicago History Museum) ) 〕 In 2013 Tillstrom was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.〔http://www.glhalloffame.org/index.pl?page=inductees&todo=year〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burr Tillstrom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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