Marcel Marceau, born Marcel Mangel, was a French mime artist and actor who lived from 1923 to 2007, most famous for his stage persona Bip the Clown. He referred to mime as the art of silence and performed professionally worldwide for more than sixty years. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Marcel Marceau was the most influential mime artist of the 20th century, creating the character Bip the Clown and reviving the art of mime as silent physical theatre.
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was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona
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Marcel Marceau (French: [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".
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He gave his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
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After the war ended in 1945, he 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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