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Something wrong?The French mime who turned silence into a sixty-year worldwide career, built almost entirely on a single character: Bip the Clown, the white-faced everyman in a battered opera hat.
A life in dates
Spine Tingler! The William Castle StoryFilm, 20072002
Las Lunas del AuditorioSeries2001“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.”In their words5 April 2001Interview, The Lantern (5 April 2001)1999
Joseph's GiftFilm, The Snake1994
The Jodorowsky ConstellationFilm1991
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro JodorowskyFilm1990Honorary Molière AwardAward1987“Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”In their words23 February 1987US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)“In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.”In their words23 February 1987US News & World Report (23 February 1987)“To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.”In their words23 February 1987US News & World Report (23 February 1987)1983
Les ÎlesFilm, Directeur de l'IGN1982
Champs-ElyséesSeries1978“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”In their wordsAs quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes1976
30 millions d'amisSeries1975
Bip as a SkaterFilm, Bip1974
Am laufenden BandSeries1972
Le Grand ÉchiquierSeries1970
The Flip Wilson ShowSeries1968A FableFilm1967
OmnibusSeries
Two Hours EarlierFilm, 1967mime artist1963Prix du BrigadierAward1961
The Mike Douglas ShowSeries1960Marcel MarceauFilm1958“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?”In their wordsJune 1958As quoted in The Reader’s Digest (June 1958)1957Achtung, SynkopeFilm1956
En direct de...Series
Marcel Marceau (La Joie de vivre)Film, 19561949Mic-macFilm1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1923Born22 March 1923Also in Deutsch
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Marcel Marceau (1962)
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Marcel Marceau (1963) by Erling Mandelmann
Aankomst Marcel Marceau te Amsterdam, Bestanddeelnr 911-2514
Aankomst Marcel Marceau te Amsterdam, Marceau deelt handtekening uit, Bestanddeelnr 911-2515
Carters with Marcel Marceau
Cité du Cirque Marcel MarceauIn their own words 10
, 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.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.
Filmography 33
TSThe Art of Silence
LKLindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp
LMLaurel & Hardy: Their Lives and MagicSSSpine Tingler! The William Castle Story
CCCharlie: The Life and Art of Charles ChaplinJGJoseph's Gift
VCVictor Borge: Then & Now III in Washington D.C.TCThe Jodorowsky ConstellationJJJonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky
PAPaganiniLÎLes Îles
SMSilent MovieBSBip as a Skater
TPThe PainterTDThe Art of Silence: Youth Maturity Old Age and Death
TMThe Mask Maker
SHShanks
BABarbarella
WRWe Called Him RobertTETwo Hours Earlier
ITIt
GEGerichtstag
DLDie schöne LügnerinMVMarcel Marceau (La Joie de vivre)
TPThe Art of Pantomime59 credits on file
Television 23
LALas Lunas del Auditorio
VDVivement dimancheCEChamps-Elysées
HAHeut' abendMA30 millions d'amis
NUNuméro un
DIDinah!ABAm laufenden BandLÉLe Grand ÉchiquierTSThe Flip Wilson Show
TSThe Dick Cavett Show
RIRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
ÀPÀ bout portantOMOmnibus
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonTSThe Mike Douglas Show
DIDiscorama
TSThe Dinah Shore Chevy ShowEDEn direct de...TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowAwards
In their orbit
Spouse: Ella JaroszewiczAbout this person
Born Marcel Mangel on 22 March 1923, he became Marcel Marceau and spent more than six decades performing what he called "the art of silence." His stage persona Bip the Clown - a figure in whiteface, striped shirt, and worn top hat - carried him across continents and made mime legible to millions who had never seen it done at that level. He worked professionally into old age, holding the form steady long after most had written it off as novelty. He died on 22 September 2007, having proven that a man in greasepaint, saying nothing, could command a room better than most people with a microphone.
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