As per our current Database, Bruce Chesse is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Bruce Chesse is 89 years, 2 months and 27 days old. Bruce Chesse will celebrate 90rd birthday on a Wednesday 27th of August 2025. Below we countdown to Bruce Chesse upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Bruce Chesse |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 89 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Born | August 27, 1935 (San Francisco, California, USA) |
| Birthday | August 27 |
| Town/City | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Bruce Chesse’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.
Bruce Chesse was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
Son of Ralph Chesse, brother of Dion Chesse and Uncle of Matt Chesse He is the Artistic Director for the Oregon Puppet Theatre, Bruce Chesse is a second-generation puppeteer with more than 30 years experience.
He is an internationally recognized puppet designer, manipulator, actor, director, teacher and author. Bruce's interest in puppetry is two-fold. He believes that puppetry is an inherently theatrical medium, and that persons of all ages and with a variety of skills can excel at this form of theater.
Bruce has performed and taught puppetry (since he began his professional puppetry career at 13) in such varied places as Ethiopia, Scandinavia, Japan, Puerto Rico and throughout the United States including many year as a artist in schools for Alaska Arts Education.
A professional actor-puppeteer and director for over 40 years. A former native of San Francisco, he performed in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1948 to 1983 in movies, television and theater with his father Ralph and brother Dion.
Alumnai of The San Francisco Boy's Chorus 19448-49. Lived in Los Angeles 1968-69, working at the Melodyland theater in Anaheim and the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California. Moved to Portland, Oregon in 1980.
Chesse's puppet creations have included commissioned works, giant parade puppets, (William Shakespeare for the Ashland Shakespeare Festival), puppet programs for video and TV. His last collaboration with Susan Barthel was 1999 when they helped produce and build puppets for a production called Frog line News, a media CD Rom on Water conservation produce by New Media Magic.
In 2002 Bruce produced a series of vegetable promos for Odyssey Productions, Inc. Vegetables Want Your Vote, for the National Steinbeck Center. These are interactive videos now being shown in Monterey at the Steinbeck Science Center.
In 2003 he was a puppeteer in The Big Sneeze, A Baroque Puppet Opera with The Carter Family Marionettes, the third in a yearly series presented at the Northwest Puppet Center in Seattle. Played King Lear for the Gallery Theater in McMinnville, Oregon in 2003.
He still keeps busy doing Films and Theater in Portland, Oregon.
