Happy 92nd Birthday Marcel Marceau
Today is the 92nd birthday of Marcel Marceau. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left.
NAME: Marcel Marceau
OCCUPATION: Actor, Artist
BIRTH DATE: March 22, 1923
DEATH DATE: September 22, 2007
EDUCATION: Ecole des Beaux-Arts
PLACE OF BIRTH: Strasbourg, France
PLACE OF DEATH: Cahors, France
ORIGINALLY: Marcel Mangel
BEST KNOWN FOR: Marcel Marceau was best known for his work as a mime artist in France.
Mime artist. Marcel Mangel was born March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, NE France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and with Etienne Decroux. In 1948 he founded the Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, developing the art of mime, becoming himself the leading exponent. His white-faced character, Bip, based on the 19th-c French Pierrot, a melancholy vagabond, is…
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Rogues & Vagabonds 
As a Theatre Arts student at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo.,(1969) I had occasion to work backstage for a single night performance by Marcel Marceau. I watched him below from a position up in the wings. Watching him profile, and being so close I could hear his footwork, it was a spectacle of perfect discipline and athleticism.
How fabulous! I saw him in London in the 70s, I think it was, and have been enamoured ever since.