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Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton was a pioneering American silent film comedian renowned for his masterful physical acting. His unique styl...

Classic American Comedy Film

9.6 Brilliant

2

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

3

Harpo Marx

Harpo Marx was a renowned American comedic performer celebrated for his unique mime skills. His distinctive physical com...

Classic American Comedy Film

8.9 Great

4

Emmett Kelly

Emmett Kelly was an American mime primarily known for his poignant stage persona, “Weary Willie.” Born in 1898, he devel...

Stage American 20TH Century Circus Clown

8.8 Great

5

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

6

Avner Eisenberg (Avner the Eccentric)

American physical comedian known as Avner the Eccentric, who appeared in the 1985 film 'The Jewel of the Nile' and creat...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

8.3 Great

7

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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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

9

Karen Montanaro

Karen Montanaro is an American mime and dancer who toured with Tony Montanaro and co-wrote Mime Spoken Here, a 1995 perf...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

7.8 Good

10

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

11

Robert Shields

American mime who co-starred with Lorene Yarnell in the CBS variety series 'Shields and Yarnell' (1977), bringing mime t...

Television American 20TH Century Street

7.4 Good

12

Lorene Yarnell

American mime who partnered with Robert Shields in the duo Shields and Yarnell, famed for their robot characters on thei...

Television American 20TH Century Street

7.3 Good

13

Robert Rivest

Canadian mime artist and teacher who contributed to the study and practice of corporeal mime and physical theatre in Can...

Teacher Stage American Solo

7.2 Good

14

Gregg Goldston

Gregg Goldston is an American mime and physical theater artist who has performed internationally and contributed signifi...

Classical Stage American Contemporary

7.2 Good

15

Bill Bowers

Bill Bowers is an American mime and solo theater artist known for his lyrical performances and for teaching mime and phy...

Classical Stage American Contemporary

7.1 Good

16

Frank Olivier

American circus performer and mime, a principal artist with San Francisco's Pickle Family Circus, noted for combining ju...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

7.1 Good

17

Claude Kipnis

French-American mime who founded the Kipnis Theatre and authored 'The Mime Book' (1974), helping formalize mime pedagogy...

Classical Teacher Stage American

7.0 Good

18

Leonard Pitt

Leonard Pitt is an American mime artist who trained in Paris under European masters and is known for solo performances t...

Classical Stage American Contemporary

6.8 Fair

19

Dean Evans

American mime artist and performer who contributed to mime theatre and physical performance traditions in the United Sta...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

6.7 Fair

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Paul J. Curtis

American mime who founded the American Mime Theatre in New York City in 1952, developing a codified, non-Marceau approac...

Classical Teacher American 20TH Century

6.7 Fair