Marcel Marceau, 84
Posted: Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 6:07 am
PARIS — Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.
France-Info radio and LCI television said the family had announced the death of Marceau. No other details were released.
Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, the world-famous Marceau played the entire range of human emotions onstage for more than 50 years, never uttering a word. Offstage, he was famously chatty. “Never get a mime talking. He won’t stop,” he once said.
A French Jew, Marceau survived the Holocaust — and also worked with the French Resistance to protect Jewish children. … Read full obituary
