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Cary Antebi is a puppeteer who performed in The Great Santa Claus Switch. Antebi also performed with Bil Baird in his Off-Broadway shows The Whistling Wizard and the Sultan of Tuffet (as the Pasha) and Ali Baba and His 40 Thieves (as Paschaa).

In television, Antebi built and performed the puppet characters Sherlock and Flapper on the children's series The Magic Garden and Rags on The Patchwork Family (with John Canemaker as sketch artist), serving as writer on the latter.