Marcel Marceau
Also Known As: Marcel Mangel, Le Mime Marceau
Biography: Marcel Marceau (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown. Description above from the Wikipedia Marcel Marceau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Birthday: March 22, 1923
Deathday: September 22, 2007
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Gender: Male
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Silent Movie
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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Les Îles
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-16
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The Mask Maker
Overview: Marcel Marceau pantomimes the story of a man who becomes trapped in one of his ‘masks.’
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Barbarella
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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Shanks
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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The Art of Silence
Overview: The first documentary about the legendary mime Marcel Marceau. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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A Fable
Overview: Designed to encourage international co-operation and understanding (sponsored by the Mobil oil company), this film is an allegory in mime, presenting the relations of 'Everyman' with his neighbours.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Overview: Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-01
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Mic-mac
Overview: The parodied life of bad boys at the beginning of the 20th century in Paris.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Die schöne Lügnerin
Overview: In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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It
Overview: Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out about her pregnancy she estranges from her partner. Trying to keep her former life as it was, she desperately looks all over the city to get an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-17
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Joseph's Gift
Overview: Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding the fact that Joseph is his favorite son, resulting in the constant envy and resentment of his brothers. Eventually, in their bitterness, they plot revenge against this favored son. When Joseph accompanies his brothers on a trip to New York, they commit the ultimate betrayal, stranding him there, a virtual prisoner in a corrupt, modern-day sweat shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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We Called Him Robert
Overview: Sergei, a constructor creates a robot, Robert, as his own copy. Tanya teaches Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic creator.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-12
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In the Park
Overview: Short movie starring Marcel Marceau.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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Marcel Marceau (La Joie de vivre)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Art of Silence: Youth Maturity Old Age and Death
Overview: One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction Marceau calls mime the essence of life and suggests that it can reach the soul through silence. In this pantomime he expresses life from the womb to the grave in a few minutes and illustrates one of the art's most notable characteristics - its ability to condense time and to create through time the pulse of humanity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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The Art of Silence: The Cage
Overview: One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction he describes this pantomime as having a theme that goes beyond time, an allegory showing a man trying to escape an enclosure of invisible walls. He also suggests that it stands for our freedom of choice, stating that for the limited span of our life on earth, we must struggle for the enlightenment of humanity and search for a way out of the cage
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Painter
Overview: short from of Series “The Art of silence: pantomimes with Marcel Marceau and his partner Pierre Verry”. Mime makes the invisible visible and the visible invisible. Marceau’s sometimes comical - but always graceful - interpretation of The Painter in Central Park allows the viewer to “see” objects which are not there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Bip as a skater
Overview: This Bip pantomime deals with his visit to a skating rink. Featuring Marcel Marceau.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Paganini
Overview: Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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The Jodorowsky Constellation
Overview: This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and workshop leader, and his eccentricities including tarot reader and theatrical director during The Panic Movement. Directed by Louis Mouchet, La Constellation Jodorowsky includes a lengthy on-camera interview with Jodorowsky in Spanish with subtitles. Marcel Marceau, Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Jean Pierre Vignau make appearances discussing their various projects with the director. In addition to the interview and film clips, Mouchet features some bizarre footage from Jodorowsky’s absurdist plays in which topless women splattered with paint writhe around the stage in a theatrical production meant to represent The Panic Movement, i.e., an artistic expression in which reason cannot fully express the human experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Overview: The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-28
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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Overview: Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Overview: Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp
Overview: A documentary that collects for the first time and in an almost anthological way the historical repertoire of the Lindsay Kemp Company's shows, from the end of the 70s to the 90s. With footage from the Rai Teche and private archives, and an intimate and touching unpublished interview conducted by the director in her home in Livorno. The documentary is unique in its kind because it collects for the first time in an almost anthological way the repertoire of the shows of the glorious Lindsay Kemp Company from Salome to Flowers, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Duende and Onnagata, up to the last show Kemp Dances. Lindsay Dances celebrates one of the most original, creative, and innovative artists in contemporary dance theatre. The documentary was nominated by Rai for the 72nd edition of the Prix Italia 2020.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-05-02
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Victor Borge: Then & Now III in Washington D.C.
Overview: The Great Dane, Victor Borge, performs with friends at a theatre in Washington D.C. for an evening of laughs and music.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-03
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Bizarre, Bizarre
Overview: A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-20
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