David Barrington Holt, longtime manager of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and practical effects master, died March 13 of complications from cancer, his son, Chris Holt, announced. He was 78.

David Barrington Holt, who established and ran the first Creature Shop on the West Coast for The Jim Henson Company during his two-plus decades with the firm, has died. He was 78. Holt died March ...