Hollywoodland hosted the Holiday Marionette Show
featuring GREGORY PAUL WILLIAMS
A puppeteer by profession, Greg began performing at age 15 with the well-known Bob Baker Marionettes, appearing throughout California, and at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater near downtown Los Angeles. His work with Baker expanded his horizons into feature and television productions including Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’
As a writer/puppeteer, Greg was first hired by Jim Henson to write a series of children’s books for the Muppets beginning in 1980. His work landed him on the best-seller lists with the Fozzie Bear mystery, The Case of the Missing Hat, published by Random House/Muppet Press.
Greg ‘s non-fiction book, The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History, won a National Best Book Award in 2007. Self-published. It also received an Independent Publishers’ Silver Medal. With international distribution, the book is available in bookstores and online outlets.
His television appearances as a Hollywood historian include the American Movie Channel, PBS, KOCE TV, KCET Life and Times, KTLA Morning News and E! Entertainment Television.