Marcel Marceau

Le Mime Marceau

Born March 22, 1923· Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

† Died September 22, 2007

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Emerging from a Jewish family in Strasbourg, he entered the Parisian School of Dramatic Art after World War II, studying under Charles Dullin, Étienne Decroux and Jean-Louis Barrault, which shaped his lifelong devotion to mime. His early stage work with Barrault’s troupe led to the acclaimed pantomime Arlequin, and in 1947 he introduced the iconic character Bip the Clown at Paris’s Théâtre de Poch…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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