Khaberni - Danny Seagren, the first actor to portray Spiderman in a live television production, and one of the leading puppeteers in the famous children's show "Sesame Street", has passed away at the age of 81, according to an official statement released by his family, marking the departure of one of the major icons of children's programs in the seventies and eighties.
According to international newspapers, Seagren was born in 1943 in Minnesota, and became internationally famous after he became the first to wear the Spiderman suit in the children's show "The Electric Company" which premiered in the early seventies.
Sesame Street
Over the course of three years, Seagren appeared in about 400 episodes, embodying the famous character without direct dialogue, but rather through textual bubbles that were used to encourage children to read.
Seagren later recounted that he got the role after an unconventional audition, where he climbed on top of a filing cabinet and then leaped in front of the producer while wearing the Spiderman suit, saying: "I had to impress him... one way or another", and the producer immediately told him "You've got the job".
Seagren later moved to South Carolina, and continued to be present among his audience by participating in "Comic Con" events, where he would meet fans who grew up watching him as a superhero on the screen.
