Marcel Marceau seems melancholy ... Bip resembles the 19th-century sad clown, Pierrot. “I wear white face for Pierrot,” Marceau explains. “And the red flower is for fragility, vulnerability.” ...

Marcel Marceau ... 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 ...

PARIS – Marcel Marceau ... Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower, Marceau, notably through his famed character Bip, played the entire range of human ...

At the mention of the word “mime,” into most people’s minds leaps a picture of a slight figure in white face paint making precise, mesmerizing movements — the very image of Marcel Marceau.

Marcel Marceau, who spent more than half the 20th ... on a journey from birth through the playful childhood we knew to a sad, stooped frailty he pictured as a kind of second childhood.

Say “mime” and the name that comes to mind is Marcel Marceau. Despite a long history ... the Little Tramp. His sad looks and elastic gestures would become a cliché, aped by every street ...