Scott Land (born 1962) is a producer and puppeteer. He started puppetry at the age of ten after seeing
Bob Baker perform his
marionette
A marionette (; french: marionnette, ) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed ...
s at the National Orange Show in 1972. While later studying
psychology
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at
UCLA
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, he worked for Bob Baker Marionettes as a puppet builder and as Baker's own roadshow puppeteer. His puppetry features in nearly every scene of
Paramount Pictures’ ''
Team America: World Police''.
"Meet the Man Behind Those Team America-esque Donald Trump Videos", by Andrew Husband, Mediaite.com
/ref> His puppetry is in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshal, Shakes the Clown, Princess Diaries1, Princess Diaries2, A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan The Third and Still Breathing. Scott Land is considered one of the greatest marionette puppeteers in the world today. His studio to learn puppetry is located in Las Vegas and his team is expanding to Los Angeles and New York.
Filmography
* Team America: World Police (2004)
References
External links
Scott Land
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1962 births
Living people
American puppeteers
America's Got Talent contestants