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Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel was a 20th-century British-American comedian renowned for his pioneering work in silent film comedy. His exc...

20TH Century Comedy Duo Silent Film

9.5 Brilliant

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Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach)

Charles Adrien Wettach, known as Grock, was a Swiss mime performer active throughout the 20th century. He achieved inter...

Swiss Stage 20TH Century Legendary

9.2 Excellent

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Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba is an Italian theater director renowned for his pioneering work in Theatre Anthropology. He established Od...

Italian Contemporary Physical Theater Theater Researcher

9.1 Excellent

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Charlie Rivel

Spanish-born clown (1896–1983) internationally celebrated for his tragicomic "Akrobat schööön" act, performing across Eu...

Stage Spanish International 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Emmett Kelly

American circus clown (1898–1979) who created the iconic sad tramp character "Weary Willie," most closely identified wit...

Stage American 20TH Century Circus Clown

8.8 Great

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Peter Schumann

German-American puppeteer who founded Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City in 1963, known for large-scale political...

Contemporary Political Puppetry German American

8.7 Great

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Harry Langdon

American silent film comedian (1884–1944) whose baby-faced innocent persona made him a major 1920s star, with key films...

Stage American 20TH Century Comedy

8.6 Great

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Paolo Nani

Paolo Nani is an Italian mime and physical theater performer internationally recognized for his one-man show The Letter,...

Italian Stage Danish Visual

8.5 Great

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Andres Bossard

Swiss mime and co-founder of Mummenschanz (1972), the internationally touring company known for abstract mask and object...

Swiss 20TH Century Mask Ensemble

8.5 Great

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Otto Griebling

German-American circus clown (1896–1972) renowned for his silent tramp character with Ringling Bros., regarded alongside...

Stage 20TH Century Legendary German American

8.5 Great

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Pierre Etaix

Pierre Etaix (1928–2016) was a French clown, mime, and filmmaker who collaborated with Jacques Tati and directed celebra...

Stage French 20TH Century Clown

8.4 Great

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Richard Pochinko

Canadian clown and mime (1946–1989) who developed an original method fusing European clown technique with North American...

Theater Canadian 20TH Century Clown

8.4 Great

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Ennio Marchetto

An Italian performer internationally renowned for a one-man show featuring rapid transformations using paper costumes th...

Italian Stage Paper Costume

8.3 Great

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Moni Yakim

Moni Yakim is an Israeli-American mime and movement director who served for several decades as head of movement at the J...

Classical Teacher American 20TH Century

8.1 Great

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Carlo Mazzone-Clementi

Carlo Mazzone-Clementi (1920–2000) was an Italian-American mime and pedagogue who co-founded the Dell'Arte School of Phy...

Teacher Stage 20TH Century Italian American

8.0 Great

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R.G. Davis

American director who founded the San Francisco Mime Troupe in 1959, pioneering politically engaged, free outdoor theatr...

American 20TH Century Political Ensemble

7.9 Good

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Bolek Polívka

Czech clown, mime, and actor who rose to prominence with Brno's Divadlo na provázku theatre company and later became a c...

Stage Theater Contemporary Czech

7.8 Good

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Kataklo

Kataklo Athletic Dance Theater is an Italian physical theater company founded in Milan in 1992 by Giulia Staccioli, comb...

Italian Stage Visual Physical

7.6 Good

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Yves Joly

Yves Joly (1923–2010) was a French mime and theater artist renowned for his distinctive hand mime performances, animatin...

Stage French Solo 20TH Century

7.6 Good

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Trudi Schoop

Swiss dancer and mime (1903–1999) who pioneered dance therapy in the United States and led her own touring comic ballet...

Stage 20TH Century Pantomime Swiss American

7.6 Good