Marcel Marceau

Marcel Mangel Marceau was born to Charles Chaim David Mangel and Ann Wertzberg. He had one brother, Alain Mangel (1921 - 1993). His father was born in Germany. He and his brother changed their surname to "Marceau" after Germany invaded France.François Séverin Marceau was a French General of the French Revolutionary Wars. Marcel Marceau married Anne Sicco about 1975 and they had two daughters. He also married Ella Jaroszewicz (married 1966 to about 1975, no children) and Huguette Mallet (they divorced in 1958) as well. He and Huguette had two sons. Marceau played several silent film roles and only two with a speaking part, as himself, speaking the single word "Non" in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie (1976) And in Barbarella, a 1968 science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim, Marcel Marceau had his first speaking role in the film as Professor Ping. Marcel Marceau was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence" and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years, including the Untied States and Canada, as well as South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and Europe.. See Marcel Marceau: Obituary Quotes Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.