Emilio Delgado expected he'd be a short-timer when he landed the role of Luis on "Sesame Street." Was he ever wrong. He played his character with a grin as wide as a Muppet for four decades and ...

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"He was one of the most positive people that I think I'll ever know." Emilio Delgado, the actor best known for playing Luis on the popular PBS kids series "Sesame Street," has died. He was 81. A ...

After news of Emilio Delgado’s death broke, social media swelled with sincere condolences, memories and reminiscences about how the late actor’s warmhearted character Luis Rodriguez touched their ...

Emilio Delgado, best known to generations of “Sesame Street” viewers as the patient and kind Luis, died last week at 81. Who better to memorialize him than the actress who worked alongside him for ...

Generations of children knew Emilio Delgado as Sesame Street's fix-it shop owner, Luis Rodriguez. This week, Delgado died at age 81, having been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer two years ago. He ...