Early Addition: Village Halloween Parade founder dies at 87
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Ralph Lee, one of the New York stage’s preeminent mask and puppetry designers perhaps most widely known for his “Land Shark” that ate various cast members of…
Ralph Lee, the puppeteer who created the beloved 'Saturday Night Live' Land Shark character, died on May 12, 2023.
The puppeteer Ralph Lee with some of his creations at an exhibition of his work at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in 1998. In 1974 he…
In 1974 he decided it would be fun to parade through Greenwich Village with some of his creations on Halloween. A tradition was born.