Roy Thomas Brown was an American television personality, puppeteer, clown and artist known for playing "Cooky the Cook" on Chicago's Bozo's Circus.
Brown created all of the puppet characters shown here with Frazier Thomas and Garfield Goose: Romberg Rabbit, Beauregard Burnside III, Mackintosh Mouse, and Chris Goose.
Roy Brown as Cooky the Cook with Bozo (Bob Bell), on Bozo's Circus, 1976.
Roy Brown created items like this greeting card for young viewers.
Ray Rayner as Sergeant Pettibone, with Brown's Tracer puppet, 1966.
The Bozo Show was a locally produced children's television program that aired on WGN-TV in Chicago and nationally on what is now NewsNation. It was based on a children's record-book series, Bozo the Clown by Capitol Records. The series is a local version of the internationally franchised Bozo the Clown format and is also the longest-running in the franchise. Recognized as the most popular and successful locally produced children's program in the history of television, it only aired under this title for 14 of its 40+ years: other titles were Bozo, Bozo's Circus, and The Bozo Super Sunday Show.
Cast of Bozo's Circus, 1967. From left: Ringmaster Ned (Ned Locke), Mr. Bob (bandleader Bob Trendler), Bozo (Bob Bell), Oliver O. Oliver (Ray Rayner), Sandy (Don Sandburg)
The cast in 1963
Cooky the Cook with Bozo, 1976
Bozo and Wizzo, 1978
