Matt Ficner (born 1973) is a Canadian actor,

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, and entrepreneur. For over two decades, Matt has been involved in television, film and theatre projects. As president of Matt Ficner Productions Inc., he received a Top Forty Under 40 award from the Ottawa Business Journal in 2006 in recognition of entrepreneurial success. He worked with the puppets on the movie ''

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'' and has worked on multiple kids shows like '' Caillou'' and '' Ace Lightning''. On ''Ace Lightning'', Ficner designed the computer-generated characters for the series, and also provided the voices of the characters Zip and Snip in the first season. In 2008, Boingboing.net featured one of Mr. Ficner's Creepy Puppet shorts called ''Dusty Zombies''. In 2009 he acted and did puppetry on the webseries '' Spellfury''. He created the character of Dennis the raccoon for the Canadian television series '' Wingin' It''.

Filmography

As actor

* '' Caillou'' (1998) as Teddy * '' Noddy'' as Rusty, Lichtenstein and Whiny * '' Brats of the Lost Nebula'' (1998) * '' Ace Lightning'' (2002) as Snip * ''The Creepy Puppet Project'' (2004) as Doc. Whotnaught * '' Spellfury'' (6 episodes, 2008–2009) as Tarek * '' Wingin' It'' (13 episodes, 2010) as Dennis

As puppeteer

* '' Ace Lightning'' (26 episodes, 2002) (as character designer) * '' Wilbur'' (26 episodes, 2006) * ''Planet Bizzaro: The World According to Zoomer'' (26 episodes, 2006–2007) * ''

'' (2007) * '' The Thing'' (2011)

As writer, producer, director

* ''The Creepy Puppet Project'' (2004)

References

External links

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Interview on ZombieInfo.com
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