Barnaby Harrison

Barnaby Harrison is a British puppeteer who is best known for being the co-founder and co-partner of Global Puppeteering Services with his colleague Patrick Comerford. For the Muppets, his only known work was being one of the additional performers on Muppet Treasure Island, at least he was credited for doing so. Barnaby is lucky to have a colleague puppeteer to help him form the company. Harrison has done numerous puppetry credits outside in films and television. Films include Babe: Pig in the Big City, 101 Dalmatians (the live-action Disney version), Seed of Chucky, and Blade II, just to name a few. As for TV, he worked on Wizadora, Spitting Image, and Round the Bend. Barnaby Harrison should have done more work with the Muppets like in the film Muppets Most Wanted or done shows by the Henson Company such as The Hoobs or Construction Site. Still, he got to work alongside Muppet performers (besides Comerford) such as Joan Morris, Geoff Felix, Heather Tobias, and Paul Zerdin, as well as the main Muppet performers. As of now, it's unknown what projects Global Puppeteering Services has done over the years and unknown who the puppeteers were besides the two founders. I only hope Barnaby is still performing with Comerford today as there was hardly any information about their company. To be fair, Harrison didn't have enough info on his page of the Muppet Wiki for people to know about Global Puppeteering Services. Nobody knows where he is now nor what he's doing since he was last seen as a puppeteer on Solo: A Star Wars Story. As long as he remains busy, that's all that matters at the moment, maybe he'll run into a Muppet performer someday. Barnaby Harrison, you've done great puppetry in all of those films and TV shows. If you're still with Patrick Comerford, keep on working at your company and try and see if you can get that online for people to know what projects it has done. You've got to get out there and tell the world about you. Until then, terrific work Barnaby. I bid you cheerio Harrison!

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