![]() ![]() Actor Giuseppe Mazullo voiced Topo while two other puppeteers moved his arms. ![]() His creator, Maria Perego of Milan, Italy, controlled his legs with her fingers and opened and closed his mouth with her other hand using rods. The little mouse was as complicated as he was cute. Viewers wondered how he could walk, talk, roll his eyes, wiggle his ears and toes – all without visible strings. One of the most famous puppets in history, Topo was just ten inches tall, with Bambi eyes and a precocious personality. In time, Topo would go on to star in a feature film, an Italian TV show and Japanese and Latin American animated series. When Topo Gigio gingerly descended onto The Ed Sullivan Show stage on December 9, 1962, no one could have predicted that the little Italian mouse puppet would go on to become one of the show’s most memorable acts. ![]()
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