Marcel Marceau

Acting

Marcel Marceau

Born 1923-03-22 · Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Marcel Marceau (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown. Description above from the Wikipedia Marcel Marceau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Barbarella poster
6.0

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

Barbarella

1968

Silent Movie poster
6.5

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

Silent Movie

1976

Die schöne Lügnerin poster
6.4

In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.

Die schöne Lügnerin

1959

Paganini poster
5.3

Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.

Paganini

1990

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NR

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

Achtung, Synkope

1957

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin poster
6.9

Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

2003

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NR

The parodied life of bad boys at the beginning of the 20th century in Paris.

Mic-mac

1949

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic poster
7.5

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

2011

Shanks poster
5.2

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

Shanks

1974

Joseph's Gift poster
7.0

Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding the fact that Joseph is his favorite son, resulting in the constant envy and resentment of his brothers. Eventually, in their bitterness, they plot revenge against this favored son. When Joseph accompanies his brothers on a trip to New York, they commit the ultimate betrayal, stranding him there, a virtual prisoner in a corrupt, modern-day sweat shop.

Joseph's Gift

1999

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Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary is about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.

Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

1974

Gerichtstag poster
10.0

A critical look at yesterday and today, expressed through pantomime, drawing, and music.

Gerichtstag

1966

Two Hours Earlier poster
NR

New Year's musical film with the participation of VIO-66 (Vocal and Instrumental Orchestra at the RosconcertSaulsky), the Accord quartet, Marcel Marceau, A.Raikin, E.Shavrina, V.Makarov and other popular pop performers and actors of that time.

Two Hours Earlier

1967

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9.0

Short movie starring Marcel Marceau.

In the Park

1955

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A studio-shot showcase of Marcel Marceau’s pantomime art, this 1960 West German TV special strings together a suite of wordless vignettes centered on his alter ego Bip. Eschewing conventional plot, director Günther Hassert frames Marceau’s comic-tragic sketches in clean, minimalist setups so the rhythm, precision, and emotional range of the “art of silence” carry the whole program for television.

Marcel Marceau

1960

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story poster
7.8

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

2007

Les Îles poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Îles

1983

The Art of Silence poster
6.2

The first documentary about the legendary mime Marcel Marceau. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work.

The Art of Silence

2022

Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp poster
NR

A documentary that collects for the first time and in an almost anthological way the historical repertoire of the Lindsay Kemp Company's shows, from the end of the 70s to the 90s. With footage from the Rai Teche and private archives, and an intimate and touching unpublished interview conducted by the director in her home in Livorno. The documentary is unique in its kind because it collects for the first time in an almost anthological way the repertoire of the shows of the glorious Lindsay Kemp Company from Salome to Flowers, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Duende and Onnagata, up to the last show Kemp Dances. Lindsay Dances celebrates one of the most original, creative, and innovative artists in contemporary dance theatre. The documentary was nominated by Rai for the 72nd edition of the Prix Italia 2020.

Lindsay Dances - Theatre and life according to Lindsay Kemp

2020

We Called Him Robert poster
5.2

Sergei, a constructor creates a robot, Robert, as his own copy. Tanya teaches Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic creator.

We Called Him Robert

1967

Marcel Marceau (La Joie de vivre) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcel Marceau (La Joie de vivre)

1956

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky poster
NR

Profile of Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his new film Santa Sangre (1989) also including interviews with Jodorowsky on the set of his film The Rainbow Thief (1990).

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky

1991

Victor Borge: Then & Now III in Washington D.C. poster
NR

The Great Dane, Victor Borge, performs with friends at a theatre in Washington D.C. for an evening of laughs and music.

Victor Borge: Then & Now III in Washington D.C.

1996

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One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction he describes this pantomime as having a theme that goes beyond time, an allegory showing a man trying to escape an enclosure of invisible walls. He also suggests that it stands for our freedom of choice, stating that for the limited span of our life on earth, we must struggle for the enlightenment of humanity and search for a way out of the cage

The Art of Silence: The Cage

1975