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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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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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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

5

Tony Montanaro

Tony Montanaro was an American mime who founded Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris, Maine, in 1972 after studying w...

Modern Teacher Stage American

7.7 Good

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Ctibor Turba

Czech mime artist and director, a student of Ladislav Fialka, who became a prominent figure in Czech physical theatre an...

Classical Teacher Stage Contemporary

7.5 Good

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Thomas Leabhart

Thomas Leabhart is an American corporeal mime, Pomona College professor, and Mime Journal editor who studied with Étienn...

Modern Teacher Stage American

7.4 Good

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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

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Bari Rolfe

Bari Rolfe was an American dancer, mime, and educator who taught at UCLA and edited Mimes on Miming, a major 1980 anthol...

Modern Teacher American Author

7.3 Good

10

Adam Darius

Adam Darius was an American dancer and mime who premiered his expressive mime style in 1967 and performed in more than 8...

Modern Teacher Stage American

7.3 Good

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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

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Jeff Raz

American clown who performed with Cirque du Soleil and founded the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

7.3 Good

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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

James Donlon

American mime artist and teacher who studied with Marcel Marceau and worked to promote mime as a distinct theatrical art...

Teacher Stage American Physical

7.2 Good

15

Jean Dorcy

Jean Dorcy (1891–1978) was a French mime, theorist, and author whose writings systematically documented and promoted the...

Classical Teacher French Author

7.2 Good

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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

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Pinok (Michèle Prélonge)

French mime who formed the celebrated duo Pinok et Matho with Mathilde Dumont after both trained under Marcel Marceau in...

Classical Stage 20TH Century Duo

7.2 Good

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Matho (Mathilde Dumont)

French mime who, partnered with Michèle Prélonge as the duo Pinok et Matho, created internationally toured pantomime wor...

Classical Stage 20TH Century Duo

7.2 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

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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