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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 ...
Shields and Yarnell's specialty was a series of skits called The Clinkers, in which they assumed the personae of robots, with many individual, deliberate motions (as opposed to normal smooth motion) stereotypical of robots and early animatronics, enhanced by their ability to refrain from blinking their eyes for long stretches of time. [2] Their ...
Pinto Colvig - American clown who later became famous as the voice of Goofy. Daniel Rice (1823–1901) – American clown of the 19th century and principal inspiration for Uncle Sam. David Shiner – Tony Award-winning American born mime and circus clown who has appeared on Broadway and with several European circuses
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'.
In December 2016, Brzozowski was awarded the “Special WMO Award for the outstanding contribution to the art of mime” [2] by the World Mime Organisation (WMO). In the decision by the WMO it was written: "In his youth professor Brosowski worked with famous Henryk Tomaszewski in Wroclaw Mime Theatre in Poland, where he was a soloist and he has ...
There he imparts his talents and technique to budding artists such as he once was, having retired from the stage in 2009. It has a four-year course that has students from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Switzerland. Dutta’s Silent Village for the physically challenged has mime as an optional vocation. [2]
The couple also toured widely with their two-person show, The Montanaro-Hurll Theatre of Mime and Dance. In 1995, the Montanaros wrote Mime Spoken Here: The Performer's Portable Workshop, a guide to the craft of mime, character work, and improvisation, and a pair of accompanying instructional videos.