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Marcel Marceau

1923 - 2007

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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". 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. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Marceau is the 264th most popular actor (down from 164th in 2019), the 573rd most popular biography from France (down from 410th in 2019) and the 19th 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 264 out of 13,578. Before him are Monica Vitti, Timothy Dalton, Viggo Mortensen, Divine, David Suchet, and Julianne Moore. After him are Liza Minnelli, Lon Chaney, Christopher Reeve, Franco Nero, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Ed Harris.

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Among people born in 1923, Marcel Marceau ranks 20. Before him are Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Rocky Marciano, Peter II of Yugoslavia, and György Ligeti. After him are Mas Oyama, Queen Anne of Romania, Franco Zeffirelli, Val Logsdon Fitch, Jack Kilby, and Roy Lichtenstein. Among people deceased in 2007, Marcel Marceau ranks 16. Before him are Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Ponti, Ernst Otto Fischer, Kai Siegbahn, and Maurice Béjart. After him are Alan Ball Jr., Benazir Bhutto, Sidney Sheldon, Aden Adde, Albert Ellis, and Paul Cohen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Marceau ranks 573 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Allais (1911), Paul Langevin (1872), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Theuderic I (485), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), and Richard Clayderman (1953). After him are Hippolyte Taine (1828), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Marius Petipa (1818), René Guénon (1886), Ambroise Paré (1510), and Isabelle Adjani (1955).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Marcel Marceau ranks 19. Before him are Jeanne Moreau (1928), Gérard Philipe (1922), Anouk Aimée (1932), Leslie Caron (1931), Philippe Noiret (1930), and Isabelle Huppert (1953). After him are Isabelle Adjani (1955), Mireille Darc (1938), Michel Piccoli (1925), Annie Girardot (1931), Sophie Marceau (1966), and Pierre Richard (1934).

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