Marcel Marceau

At 84 years old, Marcel Marceau physical status not available right now. We will update Marcel Marceau's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Marcel Marceau (French pronunciation: [maso]; born Marcel Mangel, 1923-07; "Bip the Clown" was a French actor and mime artist most well-known for his stage persona. He referred to mime as the "art of silence" and worked internationally for more than 60 years. During the liberation of Paris in August, he lived in secrecy and worked with the French Resistance during the bulk of World War II. In Paris, he studied dramatic art and mime during the war.

He founded his own pantomime school in Paris in 1959, and he later founded the Marceau Foundation to promote the art in the United States. He was named "Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur" (1998) in France, and he was among his many awards and accolades. He received the Emmy Award for his television production, was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, and was named a "National treasure" in Japan. Michael Jackson had a 20-year relationship, and he said he used some of Marceau's tricks in his own dance steps.

Early life

Marcel Marceau was born in Strasbourg, France, to a Jewish family. Charles Mangel, his father, was a kosher butcher from Bdzin, Poland. Anne Werzberg, his mother, was born in Yabluniv, present-day Ukraine. He was a cousin of Israeli singer Yardena Arazi who was introduced by his mother's family. Marcel's family moved to Lille when he was four years old, but the family later returned to Strasbourg.

Marcel, 17, and his family escaped to Limoges after France's retaliation by Nazi Germany. Georges Loinger, one of the French Jewish Resistance fighters (Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC, aka Armée Juive), urged him to join the French Jewish Resistance in France in the search of Jews rescued during the Holocaust. Thousands of children and adults were saved during the Holocaust in France by the OJC, which was made up of nine clandestine Jewish networks.

He was educated in the Paris suburbs at the home of Yvonne Hagnauer while pretending to be a student at the academy she directed; Hagnauer would later be named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Marcel's father was kidnapped by the Gestapo in 1944 and escorted to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed. Marcel's mother was able to survive.

During France's German occupation, Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the word "Marceau"; the name was chosen in honor of François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, a French Revolution general. In Limoges, the two brothers became members of the French Resistance. Many children were rescued from the French race laws and concentration camps during the French resistance, and the French army was deployed after liberation of Paris. He served as a liaison officer with General George Patton's Third Army, contributing to Marceau's proficiency in English, French, and German.

When he was five years old, Marceau's mother took him to see a Charlie Chaplin film, which entranced him and led him to his desire to become a mime. Since France was enslaved in order to keep Jewish children safe while he helped them flee to neutral Switzerland, he used mime for the first time.

After the war ended in 1945, he enrolled in Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art in Paris, where he studied with scholars including Joshua Smith, Étienne Decroux, and Jean-Louis Barrault.

Personal life

Marceau was married three times: first to Huguette Mallet, with whom he had two sons, Michel and Baptiste, and then to Ella Jaroszewicz, with whom he had no children. Anne Sicco, his third wife, with whom he had two children, Camille and Aurélia.

Paulette Frankl, an artist and fellow mime, published a memoir in August 2014 about her decades-long friendship with Marceau, Marcel & Me: A Memoir of Love, Lust, and Illusion. For almost 20 years, he was a great friend of Michael Jackson.

Source

Career

Marceau joined Jean-Louis Barrault's company and was soon cast in the role of Arlequin in a pantomime, Baptiste (which Barrault had interpreted in the film Les Enfants du Paradis). Marceau's appearance earned him such acclaim that he was invited to attend his first "mimodrama," Praxitele and the Golden Fish, at the Bernhardt Theatre the same year. The acclaim was unanimous, and Marceau's career as a mime was solidly established.

Bip the Clown, who appeared at the Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) in Paris in 1947, was created by Marceau in 1947. In his appearance, he wore a striped pullover and a battered, bemlowered silk opera hat. The outfit represented life's fragility, and Bip became his alter ego, just as Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp" became Charlie Chaplin's. Bip's misadventures ranged from butterflies to lions, from ships and trains to dancehalls and restaurants to just about everywhere else. Marceau, the pantomime stylist, was lauded without peer. During a live chat with Todd Farley, Marceau expressed his admiration for Charlie Chaplin's mime techniques in his films, noting that Chaplin appeared to be the only silent film actor to use mime.

The Cage, Walking Against the Wind, The Mask Manufacturer, and In The Park were among his silent mimed exhibits that culminated in classic performances. Anything from sculptors to matadors was described as works of genius by savants. One commentator wrote about his summation of a man's age in the popular Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death: "He does what most novelists can't do in volumes in less than two minutes." Marceau tried to reveal some of his inner feelings while making mime in an interview with CBS in 1987, calling it the "art of silence".

Compagnie Marcel Marceau, the first pantomime company in the world at the time, established in 1949 following the award's presentation (designed as a tribute to 19th-century mime master Jean-Gaspard Deburau) for his second mime master. The ensemble appeared in Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, and the Bernhardt Theatre, as well as other playhouses around the world, on top Paris theaters.

A retrospective of his mimodramas, including The Overcoat by Gogol, ran at the Amibigu Theatre in Paris from 1959 to 1960. Pierrot de Montmartre, The Three Wigs, The Pawn Shop, The Wolf of Tsu Ku Mi, The Wolf of Tsu Ku Mi, Paris Cries and Don Juan are among his 15 other mimodramas created by Spanish writer Tirso de Molina.

Marceau performed around the world in order to promote the "art of silence" (L'art du silence). It was the intellectual majority who knew him before he first visited the United States in 1955 and 1956, just on the heels of his North American debut at the Stratford Festival of Canada. He moved to the larger Barrymore Theater in New York after his opening at the Phoenix Theater in New York, which received rave feedback. In San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other major cities, this first U.S. tour brought a record-breaking return to standing-room-only crowds. His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Taiwan, and Europe. In 2004, he covered the United States and Australia in 2006, then returning to Europe in 2005 and Australia. He was one of the world's most well-known mimes. Marceau's art became well known to millions of people thanks to his numerous television appearances. "Meet Marcel Marceau" was his first television appearance as a professional on the Max Liebman, Mike Douglas, and Dinah Shore, as well as his own one-man performance. In three pantomime concerts, he collaborated with Red Skelton.

Marceau also demonstrated his versatility in motion pictures, including Professor Ping in Barbarella (1968), where he appeared as a deaf and mute puppeteer, as a mad scientist, and a cameo in Mel Brooks Silent Movie (1976), in which, with deliberate irony, his character has the only audible speaking part. When Brooks asks him (via intertitle) if he will be involved in the film, he responds. His last film appearances included small parts in Klaus Kinski's Paganini (1989) and Joseph's Gift (1998). Paint It White was also based on his life story. Because another actor in the film, a lifelong friend with whom he had attended school, died halfway through filming, the film was never finished.

Marceau, an author, published two books for children, the Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book and the Marcel Marceau Counting Book, as well as poetry and illustrations, including La Ballade de Paris et du Monde (The Ballad of Paris and of the World), an art book published in 1966 by Marceau and published by Harper and Row. In 1974, he posed for artist Kenneth Hari and worked on drawings and sketches that culminated in a book, as well as paintings and drawings in several museum collections. Le Troisième Îil (The Third Eye), his series of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris in 1982 with Marceau's accompanying text. In 1987, Belfond de Paris published Pimporello. Bip in a Book, a new photo book for children published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 2001, appeared in bookstores throughout the United States, France, and Australia.

Marcel Marceau's first school, École Internationale de Mime, opened in Paris's Théàtre de la Musique in 1969. Mime's fencing, acrobatics, ballet, and five tutors were taught for two years.

Marceau founded École Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris, Marcel Marceau, 1978 (International School of Mimodrame of Paris, Marcel Marceau). He founded the Marceau Foundation in 1996 to support mime in the United States.

Pop superstar Michael Jackson, who had been friends with Marceau for nearly 20 years, organized a concert with him in 1995, but the performance was postponed due to exhaustion at rehearsals. During a video interview, Jackson said he had always been "in awe" at Marceau's talent as a performer:

Marceau brought his entire mime troupe to New York City for the unveiling of his latest mimodrama, The Bowler Hat, which has appeared in Paris, London, Taipei, Taipei, Caracas, Santo Domingo, Valencia (Venezuela) and Munich. Marceau's career in America began in 1999 and continued with his classic solo show to New York and San Francisco after 15 years of largely revered sold-out runs. He later received widespread praise for extended engagements at such iconic American theaters as The Ford's Theatre in Washington, Massachusetts, The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, demonstrating the versatility and mastery of this rare artist.

Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantasy Tales), Marceau's latest full-company production, attracted acclaim at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris.

Source