Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau
Marceau in 1971
Born
Marcel Mangel

(1923-03-22)22 March 1923
Strasbourg, France
Died22 September 2007(2007-09-22) (aged 84)
Cahors, France
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
Other names"Le mime Marceau"[1][2]
Alma materCharles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Mime artist
  • actor
Years active1950s–2007
Known forBip the Clown
Spouses
Huguette Mallette
(div. 1958)

Ella Jaroszewicz (m. 1966; div. before 1975)
Anne Sicco
(m. 1975)
Children4
RelativesYardena Arazi (cousin)
Georges Loinger (cousin)

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.

As a Jewish youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944 .[3] Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris.

  1. ^ Rochefort, Harriet Welty. Joie de Vivre: Secrets of Wining, Dining, and Romancing Like the French, Macmillan (2012), p. 141.
  2. ^ Koechlin, Stephane. Michael Jackson – La chute de l'ange, Archipel (2009) e-bk.
  3. ^ "Wallenberg lecture" on YouTube, Wallenberg lecture, 30 April 2001.