Frank Oz

Before he directed, Frank Oz performed Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Yoda, and his first feature, The Dark Crystal, made with Jim Henson, has no human actors at all. Little Shop of Horrors puts a blood-craving plant in a Skid Row flower shop and turns it into a musical. The live-action comedies escalate embarrassment: in What About Bob? a psychotherapist's clingy patient tracks him down on his family's lakeside holiday.

Signature

• Puppetry and creature effects (The Dark Crystal, Little Shop of Horrors).
• Comedies of escalating embarrassment (What About Bob?, Death at a Funeral).
• Suburban satire (The Stepford Wives).
• A Broadway musical brought to the screen.