where he met his wife, Jane, in 1954. The couple had five children. Henson died in 1990 at age 53 after an illness. Jane died ...

I went into it with a lot of respect for Jim Henson and the projects that I knew the best, but I didn't know much more. I had no idea about the dimension of his journey and his wife Jane's ...

I wanted to get to the bottom of what made him tick." The documentary also examines the vital contributions of Jane Henson, Jim's wife, to the creation of the Muppet empire. She came up with many ...

And so therefore everyone loves Jim Henson, the godlike creator/inventor/father figure of the whole Muppet project, whose creations — the colourful ensemble of goofy, absurdist, felt-based ...

In 1986, he began a 23-year collaboration with the Jim Henson Company ... He is survived by his wife and son.

"George was shattered when Jim passed," Howard notes ... of Henson's surviving children with his wife and collaborator, Jane Henson; all four appear in the doc to reminisce about their family ...

Jim Henson Idea Man is a very conventional movie ... as well as his experimental short films plus archival interviews with his late wife Jane, Howard has to fill in a lot of visual gaps.