swap_horiz R.G. Davis 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

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

5

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Red Skelton

American comedian (1913–1997) celebrated for physical comedy and pantomime, whose self-titled CBS variety show ran for 2...

Classic American TV Clown

8.7 Great

11

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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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

14

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

15

Gilles Ste-Croix

Canadian circus artist and co-founder of Cirque du Soleil (1984), originally a stilt-walker whose street performances in...

Contemporary Canadian Founder Circus

8.5 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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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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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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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