Influenced by silent film sizes such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, he created a unique art form from it after the war that his heritages continue to this day. 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. With his facial expressions and few gestures, he expressed more hope, joy or pain than so many Greek drama.

Das Schöne an Festivals – wie hier in Saarbrücken – ist das Einlassen auf Filme, die man ansonsten höchstwahrscheinlich nicht beachtet hätte. 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. After his opening engagement at the Phoenix Theater in New York, which received rave reviews, he moved to the larger Barrymore Theater to accommodate the public demand. The outfit signified life's fragility, and Bip became his alter ego, just as the " Little Tramp" had become Charlie Chaplin's.creating character and space, by making a whole show on stage – showing our lives, our dreams, our expectations. Marceau joined Jean-Louis Barrault's company and was soon cast in the role of Arlequin in a pantomime, Baptiste (which Barrault had interpreted in the film Les Enfants du Paradis). Marceau held honorary doctorates from Ohio State University, Linfield College, Princeton University and the University of Michigan. In 1982, Le Troisième Œil, ( The Third Eye), his collection of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris with an accompanying text by Marceau. In 1944 Marcel's father was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.

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.

Foreword to Stefan Niedziałkowski's and Jonathan Winslow's 1993 book, Beyond the Word—the World of Mime. Marceau, during a televised talk with Todd Farley, expresses 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. Marceau's new total company production Les Contes Fantastiques ( Fantasy Tales) opened to great acclaim at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris. Die musikalische Untermalung ist teilweise etwas fragwürdig, aber verschiedene Techniken um geräusche zu erzäugen sind einfach nur genial.As a tragicomic clown "Bip", the famous pantomime Marcel Marceau continues to inspire people all over the world.