Mimes - Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Richard Whittington, Harpo Marx, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Charles Deburau (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Richard Whittington, Harpo Marx, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Charles Deburau, Paul Legrand, Jacques Tati, Marcel Marceau, Samy Molcho, Etienne Decroux, Lenka Pichlikova-Burke, Adam Darius, Jean-Marie Bottequin, George L. Fox, Bolek Polivka, Wolfe Bowart, Bill Irwin, Norina Matchabelli, Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, Jacques Lecoq, Shields and Yarnell, Berwick Kaler, Modris Tenisons, Slava Polunin, Pat Keysell, Carlos Martinez, Daniel Stein, Adam Brown, Angna Enters, Jimmy Logan, Nola Rae, Samuel Avital, Avner the Eccentric, Les Bubb, Glynn Nicholas, Lindsay Kemp, Tik and Tok, Ireneusz Krosny, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jogesh Dutta, Oleg Popov, Yvonne Cartier, Bill Bowers, Henryk Tomaszewski, Niels Bjorn Larsen, Tony Montanaro, Shock, Thomas Leabhart, Diceman, Tom Arnold, Richmond Shepard, Dimitri, Bill Robison, Mummenschanz, Hiroyasu Sasaki, Daniel Richter, Vokes family, Dan Puric, Zillur Rahman John, Jimmy Savo, Pablo Zibes, Adrian Pecknold, Achille Zavatta, Otto imanek, Janet Carafa, Erwin Dom Osen, Ladislav Fialka. Excerpt: Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 - 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing th...