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Marcel Marceau (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl maʁso]; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) 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.
The famous French comedian, writer, and director Jacques Tati achieved his initial popularity working as a mime, and his later films had only minimal dialogue, relying instead on many subtle expertly choreographed visual gags. Tati, like Chaplin before him, would mime out the movements of every single character in his films and ask his actors ...
Their dance and mime performances were featured in 1977 and 1978 on their own CBS television comedy-variety program, The Shields and Yarnell Show. [5] They appeared on 400 national television shows in the United States, including The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Red Skelton Show, The Muppet Show (1979), and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) [1] is an American actor, contortionist, and mime artist.He is best known for portraying non-human creatures, usually via heavy make-up and visual effects.
Lindsay Keith Kemp (3 May 1938 [1] – 24 August 2018) [2] [3] [4] was a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. [5]He was probably best known for his 1974 flagship production of Flowers, a mime and music show based on Jean Genet's novel Our Lady of the Flowers, in which he played the lead role of 'Divine'.
David Kirk Traylor, best known by his stage names David Zed and Mr. Zed, is an American mime, actor and singer, and comedian mainly active in Italy and the United States. His mime work involves portraying "Mr. Zed", a fictional human-like robot.
From Timothée Chalamet in "A Complete Unknown" to Angelina Jolie in "Maria," these actors have filled the big boots (and voices) of famous musicians.
Étienne Decroux (19 July 1898 in Paris, France – 12 March 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) was a French actor who studied at Jacques Copeau's École du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obsession–corporeal mime.