ACTOR

Marcel Marceau

1923 - 2007

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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. 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 . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Marceau has received more than 3,970,679 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Marcel Marceau is the 164th most popular actor (down from 134th in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from France (down from 327th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Actor.

Marcel Marceau was a French actor and mime who was most famous for his silent performances.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Marcel Marceau ranks 164 out of 13,578. Before him are Burt Lancaster, Fernandel, Oliver Hardy, Rita Hayworth, Jeremy Irons, and Angelina Jolie. After him are Christopher Walken, Jared Leto, Richard Harris, Russell Crowe, Geraldine Chaplin, and Christoph Waltz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Marcel Marceau ranks 15. Before him are Rocky Marciano, Charlton Heston, Italo Calvino, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Peter II of Yugoslavia, and Irma Grese. After him are Nadine Gordimer, Mas Oyama, György Ligeti, Val Logsdon Fitch, Roy Lichtenstein, and Carroll Shelby. Among people deceased in 2007, Marcel Marceau ranks 9. Before him are Luciano Pavarotti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean Baudrillard, and Ève Curie. After him are Anna Nicole Smith, Mstislav Rostropovich, Paul Tibbets, Kurt Vonnegut, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Carlo Ponti.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Marceau ranks 410 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Jean Lannes (1769), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709). After him are Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), André Masséna (1758), Jean Fouquet (1420), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Lucien Bonaparte (1775), and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Marcel Marceau ranks 15. Before him are Jean Gabin (1904), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Philippe Noiret (1930), Gérard Philipe (1922), Jean Renoir (1894), and Fernandel (1903). After him are Anouk Aimée (1932), Isabelle Huppert (1953), Jeanne Moreau (1928), Annie Girardot (1931), Isabelle Adjani (1955), and Pierre Richard (1934).

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Television and Movie Roles

Barbarella
Professor Ping
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Oct 10th 19686 / 10
Shanks
Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
Oct 9th 19744.9 / 10
Silent Movie
Self
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
Jun 17th 19766.5 / 10