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{{Short description|French mime artist (1923–2007)}}
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| name               = Marcel Marceau
| image              = Marcel Marceau - 1971.jpg
| caption            = Marceau in 1971
| birth_name         = Marcel Mangel
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1923|3|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Strasbourg]], France
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|9|22|1923|3|22}}
| death_place        = [[Cahors]], France
| death_cause        = 
| resting_place      = [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]
| other_names        = "Le mime Marceau"<ref>Rochefort, Harriet Welty. ''Joie de Vivre: Secrets of Wining, Dining, and Romancing Like the French'', Macmillan (2012), p. 141.</ref><ref>Koechlin, Stephane. ''Michael Jackson – La chute de l'ange'', Archipel (2009) e-bk.</ref>
| alma_mater         = [[Charles Dullin]]'s School of Dramatic Art
| occupation         = {{hlist|Mime artist|actor}} 
| years_active       = 1950s–2007
| known_for          = Bip the Clown
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
* {{Marriage|Huguette Mallette||1958|end=divorced}}
* Ella Jaroszewicz (m. 1966; div. before 1975)
* {{Marriage|Anne Sicco|1975}}
}}
| children           = 4
| relatives          = [[Yardena Arazi]] (cousin)<br>[[Georges Loinger]] (cousin)
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'''Marcel Marceau''' ({{IPA|fr|maʁsɛl maʁso|lang}}; born '''Marcel Mangel'''; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French [[mime artist]] and actor most famous for his stage persona, "'''Bip the Clown'''". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years. 

==Early life and education ==
Marcel Marceau was born on 22 March 1923 in [[Strasbourg]], France, to a [[Jew]]ish family.{{cn|date=March 2025}} His father, Charles Mangel, was a [[kosher]] butcher originally from [[Będzin]], Poland. His mother, Anne Werzberg, came from [[Yabluniv]], present-day [[Ukraine]]. Through his mother's family, he was a cousin of Israeli singer [[Yardena Arazi]]. When Marcel was four years old, the family moved to [[Lille]], but they later returned to England
.{{fact|date=December 2021}}

After France's [[France during the Second World War|invasion by Nazi Germany]], Marcel, then 17, fled with his family to [[Limoges]]. His cousin [[Georges Loinger]], one of the members of the French Jewish Resistance in France (''Organisation Juive de Combat-OJC'', aka [[Armée Juive]]), urged him to join in order to help rescue Jews during the [[Holocaust]]. The OJC, which was composed of nine clandestine Jewish networks, rescued thousands of Jewish children and adults during the war in France.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jcpa.org/article/the-jewish-resistance-in-france-during-world-war-ii-the-gap-between-history-and-memory/|title=The Jewish Resistance in France During World War II: the gap between History and Memory|last=Hershco|first=Tsilla|date=Spring 2007|work=Jewish Political Studies Review 19:1–2|access-date=16 February 2020|archive-date=16 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216202138/https://jcpa.org/article/the-jewish-resistance-in-france-during-world-war-ii-the-gap-between-history-and-memory/|url-status=live}}</ref>   

He was schooled in the Paris suburbs at the home of [[Yvonne Hagnauer]], while pretending to be a worker at the school she directed; Hagnauer would later receive the honor of [[Righteous Among the Nations]] from [[Yad Vashem]]. In 1944 Marcel's father was captured by the [[Gestapo]] and deported to the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]], where he was killed. Marcel's mother survived.<ref name="PBS">{{YouTube|751PGZsW5P0|"Marcel Marceau Remembered"}}, ''PBS Newshour'', 25 September 2007</ref>

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name "Marceau" during the [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|German occupation of France]]; the name was chosen as a reference to [[François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers]], a general of the [[French Revolution]].<ref name="tol">{{cite news | title=Marcel Marceau: Celebrated French mime artist whose clowning dramas eloquently expressed the wonder and terror of existence | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2517662.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515231501/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2517662.ece | work=The Times | location=London | date=24 September 2007 | archive-date=15 May 2008 | access-date=12 May 2010 }}</ref><ref name="LAT">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-24-me-marceau24-story.html | access-date=27 September 2008 | title=Marcel Marceau, 84; legendary mime was his art's standard-bearer for seven decades | date=24 September 2007 | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Claudia | last=Luther | archive-date=4 September 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904003826/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/24/local/me-marceau24 | url-status=live }}</ref> The two brothers joined the [[French  Resistance]] in [[Limoges]].  They rescued a number of children from the race laws and [[concentration camp]]s in the framework of the Jewish Resistance in France, and, after the [[liberation of Paris]], joined the French army.<ref name="tol" /> Owing to Marceau's fluency in English, French, and German, he worked as a liaison officer with [[George S. Patton|General George Patton]]'s [[United States Army Central|Third Army]].<ref name="tol" /><ref>{{cite news | title=Marcel Marceau, master of silence whose comic language enchanted the world | last=Sage | first=Adam | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2518091.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531172751/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2518091.ece | work=The Times | location=London | date=24 September 2007 | archive-date=31 May 2010 }}</ref>

According to Marceau, when he was five years of age, his mother took him to see a [[Charlie Chaplin]] film, which entranced him and led him to want to become a mime artist. The first time he used mime was after France was invaded, in order to keep Jewish children quiet while he helped them escape to Switzerland.<ref name="smh">{{cite news | first=Steve | last=Meacham | title=How mayonnaise sandwiches saved kids from Nazis | url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/how-mayonnaise-sandwiches-saved-kids-from-nazis-20091128-jxwq.html | newspaper=The Age | publisher=Fairfax | date=29 November 2009 | access-date=28 November 2009 | archive-date=6 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106040650/http://www.theage.com.au/world/how-mayonnaise-sandwiches-saved-kids-from-nazis-20091128-jxwq.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

He gave his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the [[liberation of Paris]] in August 1944.<ref name="Wallenberg lecture">{{YouTube|zGJR4GRQA3g|"Wallenberg lecture"}}, ''Wallenberg lecture'', 30 April 2001.</ref>

After the war ended in 1945, he enrolled as a student in [[Charles Dullin]]'s School of Dramatic Art in the [[Sarah Bernhardt]] Theatre in Paris, where he studied with teachers such as Joshua Smith and [[Étienne Decroux]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://prpop.org/biografias/luis-oliva/ | title=Luis Oliva | access-date=23 April 2022 | archive-date=26 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526053158/https://prpop.org/biografias/luis-oliva/ | url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Jean-Louis Barrault]].{{fact|date=December 2021}}

== Career ==
Marceau joined [[Jean-Louis Barrault]]'s company and was soon cast in the role of [[Harlequin|Arlequin]] in a pantomime, ''Baptiste'' (which Barrault had interpreted in the film ''[[Children of Paradise|Les Enfants du Paradis]]'').<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080516103005/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22474160-16947,00.html "Master of Mime passes away"], ''The Australian''. {{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Marceau's performance won him such acclaim that he was encouraged to present his first "mimodrama", ''Praxitele and the Golden Fish'', at the Bernhardt Theatre that same year. The acclaim was unanimous, and Marceau's career as a mime artist was firmly established.

[[File:Marcel Marceau - 1974.jpg|thumb|left|Marceau as Bip the Clown in 1974]]
In 1947 Marceau created Bip the Clown, whom he first played at the Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) in Paris. In his appearance, he wore a striped pullover and a battered, be-flowered silk opera hat. The outfit signified life's fragility, and Bip became his alter ego, just as the "[[The Tramp|Little Tramp]]" had become [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s. Bip's misadventures with everything from butterflies to lions, from ships and trains to dance halls and restaurants, were limitless. As a stylist of pantomime, Marceau was acknowledged to be without peer. Marceau, during a televised talk with Todd Farley, expressed his respect for the mime techniques that Charlie Chaplin used in his films, noting that Chaplin seemed to be the only silent film actor who used mime.<ref>{{YouTube|8hlNITTKxC4|"Marcel Marceau with Todd Farley Part 9: Charlie Chaplin"}}, 11-part video</ref>

His silent mimed exercises, which included ''The Cage'', ''Walking Against the Wind'', ''The Mask Maker'', and ''In The Park'', all became classic displays. Satires on everything from sculptors to matadors were described as works of genius. Of his summation of the ages of man in the famous ''Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death'', one critic said: "He accomplishes in less than two minutes what most novelists cannot do in volumes." During an interview with [[CBS]] in 1987, Marceau tried to explain some of his inner feelings while creating mime, calling it the "art of silence:"
{{quote|The art of silence speaks to the soul, like music, making comedy, tragedy, and romance, involving ''you'' and your life. . . . creating character and space, by making a whole show on stage – showing our lives, our dreams, our expectations.<ref>{{YouTube|QbxNWmH6CAo|"Marcel Marceau Remembered"}} ''CBS Sunday Morning'', 25 September 2007</ref>}}

In 1949, following his receipt of the [[Deburau Prize]] (established as a memorial to the 19th-century mime master [[Jean-Gaspard Deburau]]) for his second mimodrama, ''Death before Dawn'', Marceau founded Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, the only company dedicated to the art of pantomime in the world at the time. The ensemble played the leading Paris theatres, such as Le [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]], Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, and the Bernhardt Theatre, as well as other playhouses throughout the world.

From 1959 to 1960, a retrospective of his mimodramas, including ''[[The Overcoat]]'' by [[Gogol]], ran for a full year at the Amibigu Théâtre in Paris. He produced 15 other mimodramas, including ''Pierrot de Montmartre'', ''The Three Wigs'', ''The Pawn Shop'', ''14 July'', ''The Wolf of Tsu Ku Mi'', ''Paris Cries — Paris Laughs'' and ''Don Juan'' (adapted from the Spanish writer [[Tirso de Molina]]).

=== World recognition ===

[[File:Marcel Marceau - AP 1974.jpg|thumb|Marceau in 1974]]
Marceau performed all over the world to spread the "art of silence" (''L'art du silence''). It was the intellectual minority who knew of him until he first toured the United States in 1955 and 1956, close on the heels of his North American debut at the [[Stratford Festival of Canada]]. After his opening engagement at the [[Phoenix Theatre (New York City)|Phoenix Theater]] in [[New York City|New York]], which received rave reviews, he moved to the larger [[Ethel Barrymore Theatre|Barrymore Theater]] to accommodate the public demand. This first U.S. tour ended with a record-breaking return to standing-room-only crowds in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other major cities. His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, [[Taiwan]], Russia, and Europe. His last world tour covered the United States in 2004, and he returned to Europe in 2005 and to Australia in 2006. He was one of the world's most renowned mime artists.<ref>https://bypassmatrix.com/marcel-marceauexploring-the-life-and-legacy/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328075347/https://bypassmatrix.com/marcel-marceauexploring-the-life-and-legacy/ |date=28 March 2023 }} Marcel Marceau: Exploring the Life and Legacy</ref>

Marceau's art became familiar to millions through his multiple television appearances. His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman, [[Mike Douglas]] and [[Dinah Shore]], and he also had his one-man show entitled "Meet Marcel Marceau". He teamed with [[Red Skelton]] in three concerts of pantomimes.

Marceau also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as Professor Ping in ''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]'' (1968); ''First Class'' (1970), in which he played 17 roles; ''[[Shanks (film)|Shanks]]'' (1974), where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist; and a cameo as himself in [[Mel Brooks]]'
''[[Silent Movie]]'' (1976), in which, with intentional irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word "Non!" when Brooks asks him (via [[intertitle]]) if he would participate in the film.<ref>Marceau thus refuses to be in a film he is appearing in and also makes the "silent" film a [[talkie]].</ref> His last film appearances included small roles in [[Klaus Kinski]]'s ''[[Paganini (1989 film)|Paganini]]'' (1989) and ''[[Joseph's Gift]]'' (1998). He also had a role in a low-budget film roughly based on his life story called ''Paint It White''. The film was never completed because another actor in the movie, a lifelong friend{{who|date=November 2010}} with whom he had attended school, died halfway through filming.

[[File:Marcel Marceau (1962).jpg|thumb|left|Marceau in 1962]]
As an author, Marceau published two books for children, the ''Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book'' and the ''Marcel Marceau Counting Book'', and poetry and illustrations, including ''La ballade de Paris et du Monde'' (''The Ballad of Paris and the World''), an art book which he wrote in 1966, and ''The Story of Bip'', written and illustrated by Marceau and published by Harper and Row. In 1974, he posed for artist Kenneth Hari and worked on paintings and drawings that resulted in a book and artwork in a number of museum collections. In 1982, ''Le Troisième Œil'', (''The Third Eye''), his collection of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris with an accompanying text by Marceau. Belfond of Paris published ''Pimporello'' in 1987. In 2001, a new photo book for children titled ''Bip in a Book'', published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, appeared in bookstores in the U.S., France, and Australia.

In 1969, Marcel Marceau opened his first school, École Internationale de Mime, in the Théàtre de la Musique in Paris. The school was open for two years with fencing, acrobatics, ballet, and five teachers of mime. In 1978, Marceau established his school, École Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris, Marcel Marceau (International School of Mimodrame of Paris, Marcel Marceau). In 1996, he established the Marceau Foundation to promote mime in the United States.

In 1995, pop megastar [[Michael Jackson]], who had been friends with Marceau for nearly 20 years, planned a concert together with him for [[HBO]], but the concert was canceled after Jackson was hospitalized for exhaustion during rehearsals. Jackson, during an interview, said that he had always been "in awe" at Marceau's skill as a performer:
{{quote|He was a great guy. I used to go see Marcel Marceau all of the time, before [[Off the Wall (album)|'' Off the Wall'']]. I used to sneak in and sit in the audience and watch how he would defy the laws of gravity like he was stepping on air. I would take some of those things and include it into rhythm and dance when I move.<ref name=Jet>"Michael Jackson Breaks Silence, Remembers Mime Marcel Marceau", ''Jet'', Oct. 15, 2007 p. 32</ref><ref>{{YouTube|-PMDYjD21E0|Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau on stage for HBO}}, video</ref>}}

In 2000, Marceau brought his full mime company to New York City to present his new melodrama, ''The Bowler Hat'', previously seen in Paris, London, Tokyo, Taipei, Caracas, Santo Domingo, Valencia (Venezuela), and Munich. From 1999, when Marceau returned with his classic solo show to New York and San Francisco after 15-year absences for critically acclaimed sold-out runs, his career in America enjoyed a remarkable renaissance with strong appeal to a third generation. He later appeared to overwhelming acclaim for extended engagements at such legendary American theaters as The [[Ford's Theatre]] in Washington, D.C., the [[American Repertory Theater]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], Massachusetts, and the [[Geffen Playhouse]] in Los Angeles demonstrating the timeless appeal of the work and the mastery of this unique artist.{{cn|date=March 2025}}<!---looks like copyvio---> 

Marceau's new total company production ''Les Contes Fantastiques'' (''Fantasy Tales'') opened to great acclaim at the [[Théâtre Antoine]] in Paris.{{cn|date=March 2025}}
== Awards and honors ==
Marceau was made a commander of the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]], an Officer of the [[Légion d'honneur]], and in 1978 he received the [[Medal of the City of Paris|Médaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris]].<ref>{{cite news | first=James | last=Kirkup | title=Marcel Marceau: Mime Artist and Teacher | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/marcel-marceau-403326.html | work=The Independent | date=24 September 2007 | access-date=6 February 2009 | location=London | archive-date=19 December 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219024303/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/marcel-marceau-403326.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The City of Paris awarded him a grant which enabled him to reopen his International School which offered a three-year curriculum. In November 1998, President [[Jacques Chirac]] made Marceau a grand officer of the [[Ordre national du Mérite]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

[[Image:Carters with Marcel Marceau.jpg|thumb|With U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Rosalynn Carter]], and [[Amy Carter]], 16 June 1977]]
Marceau was an elected member of the [[Berlin University of the Arts|Academy of Fine Arts Berlin]], the [[Academy of Fine Arts Munich]], the [[Académie des Beaux-Arts]] of the [[Institut de France]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

Marceau held honorary doctorates from [[Ohio State University]], [[Linfield College]], [[Princeton University]] and the [[University of Michigan]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} In April 2001, Marceau was awarded the [[Wallenberg Medal]] by the University of Michigan in recognition of his humanitarianism and acts of courage aiding Jewish people and other refugees during World War II.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

In 1999 New York City declared 18 March "Marcel Marceau Day".{{cn|date=January 2022}}

Marceau accepted the honor and responsibilities of serving as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Second World Assembly on Aging, which took place in [[Madrid]], Spain, in April 2002.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}

On 22 March 2023, Google celebrated his 100th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Marcel Marceau's 100th Birthday|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/marcel-marceaus-100th-birthday/|website=Google|date=22 March 2023|access-date=22 March 2023|archive-date=22 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322151147/http://www.google.com/doodles/marcel-marceaus-100th-birthday|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
[[Image:Marcel Marceau in Dresden 2004.jpg|thumb|200px|Marceau in 2004]]
Marceau was married three times: first to Huguette Mallet, with whom he had two sons, Michel and Baptiste, then, to Ella Jaroszewicz, with whom he had no children. His third wife was Anne Sicco, with whom he had two daughters, Camille and Aurélia.<ref>Clarity, James F. and Eric Pace (24 September 2007), [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/arts/24marceau.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin "Marcel Marceau, Renowned Mime, Dies at 84"], ''The New York Times''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017005032/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/arts/24marceau.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin |date=17 October 2015 }}.</ref>

Artist and fellow mime [[Paulette Frankl]] released a memoir in August 2014 about her decades-long relationship with Marceau, ''Marcel & Me: A Memoir of Love, Lust, and Illusion.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-8323-mime-body-spirit.html|title=Mime, Body, Spirit|first=Enrique|last=Limón|work=sfreporter.com|date=11 March 2014|access-date=19 June 2015|archive-date=4 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104205224/http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-8323-mime-body-spirit.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Death ==

Marceau died in a retirement home in [[Cahors]], France, on 22 September 2007 at the age of 84. At his burial ceremony, the second movement of Mozart's [[Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 21]] (which Marceau long used as an accompaniment for an elegant mime routine) was played, as was the [[sarabande]] of Bach's [[BWV 1011|Cello Suite No. 5]]. Marceau was interred at the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/26/france.marceaufuneral.ap/index.html |work=CNN |access-date=4 January 2008 |date=26 September 2007 |title=Marcel Marceau laid to rest |agency=Associated Press |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202065959/http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/26/france.marceaufuneral.ap/index.html |archive-date=2 December 2008 }}</ref>

== Recordings, publications, and film ==
In the recorded conversation ''Marcel Marceau Speaks'',{{when|date=March 2025}} recorded in English with the writer [[William Fifield]], Marcel Marceau traced the history of mime and discussed his own role in its renewed popularity. Calling mime the art of "making the invisible visible," he shared how he developed his signature character, Bip.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

Marceau wrote and illustrated the story ''Pimporello'', which was adapted and edited by Robert Hammond and published in 1991.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Marceau, Marcel | title=Pimporello | publication-date=1991 | publisher=Peter Owen | isbn=978-0-7206-0813-7}}</ref> He also wrote the [[preface]] to French [[tightrope walking|high wire artist]] [[Philippe Petit]]'s 1985 book, ''On The High Wire''.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Petit, Philippe | title=On the high wire | publication-date=1985 | publisher=New York Random House | isbn=978-0-394-71573-5}}</ref>{{better source|date=March 2025}}, and the [[foreword]] to [[Stefan Niedziałkowski]]'s and Jonathan Winslow's 1993 book, ''Beyond the Word—the World of Mime''.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Stefan Niedzialkowski | author2=Winslow, Jonathan | title=Beyond the word the world of mime | publication-date=1993 | publisher=Troy, Mich Momentum Books | isbn=978-1-879094-23-9| others= Foreword by Marcel Marceau}}</ref>

Jan Dalman, the Dutch husband of Australian choreographer and dancer [[Elizabeth Cameron Dalman]], was one of few photographers who was permitted by Marceau to take photographs of him from the stage while he was performing on his Australian tour. During his later life, Dalman carefully chose a selection of his best photos of the mime, wishing to publish a book to honour Marceau. After Jan's death, Elizabeth and their son Andreas Dalman published his photographs in a volume titled ''Out of silence – Marcel Marceau''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Out of silence: Marcel Marceau by Jan Dalman | website=Dalman Productions | date=2 August 2019 | url=https://www.dalmanproductions.com.au/ | access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref> The text appears in English and in French translation.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Dalman, Jan | author2=Dalman, Andreas | editor=Cameron Dalman, Elizabeth| translator=Prost, Anne | author3=Archer, Robyn (foreword) | title=Out of silence : Marcel Marceau by Jan Dalman | publication-date=2018 | publisher=Dalman Productions  | isbn=978-0-648-25700-4}}</ref>

The 2020 film [[Resistance (2020 film)|''Resistance'']] is a biographical film directed by directed by [[Jonathan Jakubowicz]], inspired by Marceau's life, in which [[Jesse Eisenberg]] plays Marceau.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ritman | first=Alex | title=Berlin: Haley Bennett and Matthias Schweighofer Eye Marcel Marceau Biopic 'Resistance' | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=16 February 2018 | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/berlin-haley-bennett-matthias-schweighofer-eye-marcel-marceau-biopic-resistance-1085494/ | access-date=20 March 2025}}</ref>

Marceau appeared in several films, including:

=== Filmography ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
| 1946 || ''La Bague'' ||  || short film by [[Alain Resnais]]
|-
| 1954 || ''[[:fr:Pantomimes|Pantomimes]]'' ||  || short film by [[Paul Paviot]]
|-
| 1959 || ''{{Ill|Die schöne Lügnerin|de}}'' || Napoleon im Kabarett || French/German production
|-
| 1965 || ''Marcel Marceau, le Baladin du silence'' ||  || film by [[:fr:Dominique Delouche|Dominique Delouche]]
|-
| 1967 || ''[[His name was Robert]]'' || cameo || film by Ilya Olshvanger
|-
| 1968 || ''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]'' || Professor Ping || The first time Marceau's voice is heard on film
|-
| 1974 || ''[[Shanks (film)|Shanks]]'' || Malcolm Shanks / Old Walker || Shanks is deaf-mute. Walker speaks little and dies early in the film. Marceau also choreographed the puppet-like movements in the film. 
|-
| 1976 || ''[[Silent Movie]]'' || Marcel Marceau || Marceau pronounces just one word, "non" – the only spoken word in the entire film
|-
| 1979 || ''[[:fr:Les Îles (film)|Les Îles]]'' || Director of the IGN || 
|-
| 1994 || ''Marcel Marceau ou le poids de l'âme'' ||  || by Marcel Marceau, Alain Dhénaut, Jean-Pierre Burgaud / La Sept Vidéo
|}

== Selected live performances ==
* 1946: ''Baptiste'' by [[Jacques Prévert]] & [[Joseph Kosma]], mise en scène [[Jean-Louis Barrault]], [[Théâtre Marigny]]
* 1947: ''Baptiste'' by Jacques Prévert & Joseph Kosma, mise en scène Jean-Louis Barrault, Théâtre des Célestins
* 1947: ''La Fontaine de jouvence'' de [[Boris Kochno]], mise en scène [[Jean-Louis Barrault]], [[Théâtre Marigny]]
* 1947: ''[[Le Procès]]'' inspired by [[Franz Kafka]], mise en scène [[Jean-Louis Barrault]], [[Théâtre Marigny]]
* 1947: ''Spectacle Marcel Marceau'', [[Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse]]
* 1948: ''[[The State of Siege|L'État de siège]]'' (''The State of Siege'') by [[Albert Camus]], mise en scène [[Jean-Louis Barrault]], [[Théâtre Marigny]] 
* 1949: ''Nouvelles Pantomimes burlesques'' and ''Un mimodrame'' by Marcel Marceau, mise en scène Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse]]
* 1950: ''Les Pantomimes de Bip'' and ''Mort avant l'aube'', [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées|Studio des Champs-Élysées]]
* 1951: ''Le Manteau'' – ''Moriana et Galvan'' by [[Nikolai Gogol]] and [[Alexandre Arnoux]], mise en scène Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées|Studio des Champs-Élysées]]
* 1952: ''Le Pierrot de Montmartre'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre de la Ville|Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt]]
* 1953: ''Les Trois Perruques'' – ''Un soir aux Funambules'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées|Comédie des Champs-Élysées]]
* 1956: ''Loup de Tsu Ku Mi – Mont de Piété – 14 Juillet'' de Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique|Théâtre de l'Ambigu]]
* 1958: ''Le Petit Cirque'' and ''Les Matadors'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique|Théâtre de l'Ambigu]] 
* 1964: ''Don Juan'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique|Théâtre de l'Ambigu]]
* 1972: ''Le Vagabond des étoiles'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]]
* 1974: ''Pantomimes'' by Marcel Marceau, USA Tour
* 1978: ''Mimodrame'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin]] 
* 1997: ''Le Chapeau Melon'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Espace Cardin]]
* 1997: ''Déserts ou les 7 rêves de Sarah'', mise en scène Anne Sicco, [[Scène Nationale d'Albi]] 
* 2003: ''Contes fantastiques'' by Marcel Marceau, [[Théâtre Antoine]]

== References ==
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==Further reading==
* Martin, Ben. ''Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime'', Paddington Press (UK) Limited, 1978. {{ISBN|0-448-22680-4}}
* Royce, Anya Peterson. ''Movement and Meaning: Creativity and Interpretation in Ballet and Mime'', Indiana University Press, 1984. {{ISBN|0-253-33888-3}}

== External links ==
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* [http://www.mime.info/encyclopedia/marceau.html The World of Mime Theatre Library: Marcel Marceau]
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* {{IMDb name|545131}}
* [http://www.vpr.net/episode/42198/ An Audio Remembrance] by [[Rob Mermin]] former student of Marceau
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061210222810/http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/07/27/marceau/ Brilliant Careers: Marcel Marceau] at Salon.com

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