Noel MacNeal

Noel MacNeal (born September 15, 1961), sometimes credited as Noel McNeal or Edward Noel MacNeal, is an American actor, director, puppeteer and writer of children's television. Since the early 1980s, he has performed. He was the puppeteer and voice of Bear in Bear in the Big Blue House and its spin-off series Breakfast with Bear. He also starred as Kako in Oobi, Lionel Lion in Between the Lions, and Magellan on Eureeka's Castle.