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Jean-Gaspard Deburau

1796 - 1846

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Jean-Gaspard Deburau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɡaspaʁ dəbyʁo]; born Jan Kašpar Dvořák; 31 July 1796 – 17 June 1846), sometimes erroneously called Debureau, was a Bohemian-French mime. He performed from 1816 to the year of his death at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was immortalized in Marcel Carné's poetic-realist film Children of Paradise (1945); Deburau appears in the film (under his stage-name, "Baptiste") as a major character. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Gaspard Deburau has received more than 172,247 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Gaspard Deburau is the 1,510th most popular actor (down from 1,391st in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 236th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Czech Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jean-Gaspard Deburau ranks 1,510 out of 13,578Before him are Barbara Bain, Madeleine Béjart, William Dieterle, Guy Marchand, Sean Young, and Rick Moranis. After him are Gloria Grahame, Edward Herrmann, James Remar, Philippe Leroy, Kaspar Capparoni, and Alisa Freindlich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Jean-Gaspard Deburau ranks 18Before him are Carl Loewe, Ang Duong, James Bowie, Giovanni Pacini, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais. After him are Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, Asher Brown Durand, August von Platen-Hallermünde, François Mignet, and David Roberts. Among people deceased in 1846, Jean-Gaspard Deburau ranks 13Before him are Francis IV, Duke of Modena, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Giuseppe Acerbi, Rodolphe Töpffer, Otto von Kotzebue, and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg. After him are Domenico Dragonetti, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Maria Severa Onofriana, Joseph Weigl, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, and Esaias Tegnér.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jean-Gaspard Deburau ranks 257 out of 1,200Before him are Erhard Raus (1889), Vincenz Priessnitz (1799), Beatrice of Luxembourg (1305), Václav Neumann (1920), Max Dvořák (1874), and Karel Reisz (1926). After him are Dana Zátopková (1922), Wojciech Żywny (1756), Otto Wichterle (1913), Alois Eliáš (1890), Vilém Mathesius (1882), and Pavel Haas (1899).

Among ACTORS In Czechia

Among actors born in Czechia, Jean-Gaspard Deburau ranks 7Before him are Lída Baarová (1914), Barbara Bouchet (1943), Herbert Lom (1917), Libuše Šafránková (1953), Vladimír Menšík (1929), and Josef Abrhám (1939). After him are Jana Brejchová (1940), Vlastimil Brodský (1920), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), Jan Werich (1906), Dagmar Lassander (1943), and Karel Roden (1962).