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Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.
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culture · French mime artist (1923–2007) · mime artist · actor · clown · circus performer · French resistance fighter · painter · lithographer · film actor · visual artist · comedian · also Marcel Marceau, Marcel Mangel, Marceau
Born 22 March 1923 · Died 22 September 2007 · Q157191
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: See Ethan Slater Transform into Legendary Mime Marcel Marceau for Off-Broadway's “Marcel on the Train ”(Exclusive)
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2023· 2 entries
Forbes: Marcel Marceau, The Master Of Mime And Body Language
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Variety: Marcel Marceau
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2020· 2 entries
Yahoo: The Marcel Marceau Biopic Has Nothing to Say
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The Forward: Introducing Marcel Marceau, resistance fighter — starring Jesse Eisenberg
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “The world-famous mime artist Marcel Marceau worked with the French underground as a teenager and help save many Jewish children from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.” True.
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2007· 9 entries
The Washington Post: Marcel Marceau; Resurrected, Personified the Art of Mime
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Died 2007-09-22.
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“No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.”
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“Silence is like a flame, you see?”
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“Fathers, I do not practice. I’m not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me.”
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“Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin — Mime is not an imitator but a creator.”
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“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”
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“I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.”
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“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?”
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2004· 1 entry
And he returned to Europe in 2005 and to Australia in 2006
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2001· 1 entry
A new photo book for children titled Bip in a Book, published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, appeared in bookstores in the U
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2000· 1 entry
Marceau brought his mime company to New York City to present The Bowler Hat, which had previously been performed in Paris, London, Tokyo, Taipei, Caracas, Santo Domingo, Valencia, and Munich
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1999· 2 entries
Returned to New York and San Francisco with his solo show after a 15-year absence
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New York City declared 18 March "Marcel Marceau Day"
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1996· 1 entry
Established the Marceau Foundation to promote mime in the United States
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1995· 1 entry
Pop megastar Michael Jackson, who had been friends with Marceau for nearly 20 years, planned a concert together with him for HBO, but the concert was canceled after Jackson was hospitalized for exhaustion during rehearsa
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Molière Award (1990).
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1987· 1 entry
Marceau tried to explain some of his inner feelings while creating mime, calling it the "art of silence:"
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1982· 1 entry
Le Troisième Œil, (The Third Eye), his collection of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris with an accompanying text by Marceau
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1978· 2 entries
Received the Médaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris
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Marceau established his school, École Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris, Marcel Marceau (International School of Mimodrame of Paris, Marcel Marceau)
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1974· 1 entry
Posed for artist Kenneth Hari and worked on paintings and drawings that resulted in a book and artwork in a number of museum collections
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1969· 1 entry
Marcel Marceau opened his first school, École Internationale de Mime, in the Théàtre de la Musique in Paris
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1966· 1 entry
And The Story of Bip, written and illustrated by Marceau and published by Harper and Row
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Prix du Brigadier (1963).
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1955· 1 entry
And 1956, close on the heels of his North American debut at the Stratford Festival of Canada
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1949· 1 entry
Following his receipt of the Deburau Prize (established as a memorial to the 19th-century mime master Jean-Gaspard Deburau) for his second mimodrama, Death before Dawn, Marceau founded Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, t
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1947· 1 entry
Marceau created Bip the Clown, whom he first played at the Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) in Paris
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1945· 1 entry
Enrolled as a student in Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art in the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris, where he studied with teachers such as Joshua Smith and Étienne Decroux and Jean-Louis Barrault
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1944· 1 entry
Marcel's father was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-03-22.
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