About the Character

Mr. MacIntosh was the local fruit and vegetable man who was also a soft-shoe dancer. He appeared on the show intermittently between 1975 and 1992.

About the Actor

Chet O’Brien worked as a Broadway dancer in the 1930s before moving into stage management. He was Sesame Street’s floor manager for more than ten years, and his twin brother, Mortimer “Snooks” O’Brien, was Sesame Street’s stage manager. In their youth, the brothers performed together as a vaudeville dance act.