swap_horiz Otto Griebling Alternatives

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Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau was a prominent figure in the history of mime art. Born in France, he developed a distinctive style chara...

Classic Stage French Whiteface

9.8 Brilliant

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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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Henryk Tomaszewski

Henryk Tomaszewski was a prominent Polish mime artist renowned for his intensely expressive and technically precise perf...

Polish Classic Stage Theatre

9.4 Excellent

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Slava Polunin

Slava Polunin is a renowned Russian mime artist celebrated for his intensely physical and visually arresting performance...

Russian Stage Visual Clown

9.4 Excellent

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Etienne Decroux

Étienne Decroux was a pivotal figure in 20th-century theatre. He pioneered corporeal mime, emphasizing the actor’s physi...

Teacher Classic Stage French

9.3 Excellent

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Jacques Lecoq

Jacques Lecoq developed a unique approach to acting rooted in physical theatre and movement. His intensive training meth...

Teacher Classic Stage French

9.2 Excellent

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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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Dario Fo

Dario Fo was a prominent Italian figure recognized as a mime artist, playwright, and director. His work gained internati...

Italian Theater 20TH Century Political

9.2 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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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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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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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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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

15

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

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Lotte Goslar

German-American mime and dance comedian (1907–1997) who fled Nazi Germany and built a U.S. career blending pantomime wit...

Dance Stage 20TH Century Pantomime

7.5 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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Maximilien Decroux

Maximilien Decroux was a French mime performer and son of corporeal mime founder Étienne Decroux, who participated in an...

Stage French 20TH Century Corporeal

7.1 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