swap_horiz Harry Langdon Alternatives

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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

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

4

Harpo Marx

Harpo Marx was an American comedian and harpist whose silent Marx Brothers persona carried pantomime into sound films su...

Classic American Comedy Film

8.9 Great

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Teller

American magician (born 1948, legal name Raymond Joseph Teller) known as the perpetually silent half of Penn & Teller, a...

Stage American Silent Magic

8.9 Great

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Michael Moschen

American performance artist who pioneered contact juggling and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990 for his innovativ...

Stage American Contemporary Kinetic Sculpture

8.9 Great

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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

9

Bill Irwin

Bill Irwin is an American actor, clown, and mime, a 1984 MacArthur fellow who won a special Tony Award in 1999 for Fool...

Modern Stage American Broadway

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

11

Gamarjobat

Gamarjobat is a Japanese silent comedy and mime duo internationally recognized for high-energy wordless performances and...

Stage Japanese Comedy Duo

8.4 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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The Umbilical Brothers

Australian comedy duo (Shane Dundas and David Collins) internationally recognized for wordless performances combining pr...

Stage Australian Comedy Duo

8.3 Great

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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

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Avner Eisenberg

American physical comedian known as "Avner the Eccentric," celebrated for his internationally touring solo show "Excepti...

Modern Stage American Clown

8.2 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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David Shiner

American clown and mime who gained wide recognition through Cirque du Soleil and co-created the Broadway show 'Fool Moon...

Stage American Contemporary Clown

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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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