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