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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 84, his family has announced.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7009040.stm


Marceau was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, France. His father Charles, a butcher who sang baritone, introduced his son to the world of music and theater at an early age. The boy adored the silent film stars of the era: Chaplin, Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers. When the Germans marched into eastern France, he and his family were given just hours to pack their bags. He fled to southwest France and changed his last name to Marceau to hide his Jewish origins.

With his brother Alain, Marceau became active in the French Resistance. Marceau altered children's identity cards, changing their birth dates to trick the Germans into thinking they were too young to be deported. Because he spoke English, he was recruited to be a liaison officer with Gen. George S. Patton's army.

In 1944, Marceau's father was sent to Auschwitz, where he died.
Later, he reflected on his father's death: "Yes, I cried for him."

But he also thought of all the others killed: "Among those kids was maybe an Einstein, a Mozart, somebody who (would have) found a cancer drug," he told reporters in 2000. "That is why we have a great responsibility. Let us love one another."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/23/marceau.ap/index.html
 
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Wouldn't it have been great if he'd suffocated while trying to escape from a glass box, while everyone looked on cheering

dying of old age?that's rubbish
 
is that the guy who inspired all of those creepy masks yokes with ribbons on the side girls had on their walls in the 80s


still. aaawwwww.
i feel a bio movie coming on ...........tobey mcguire
 
Isn't he the guy who went to the hospital to get his stomach pumped, and they found he had five pints of horse cum in his stomach?
 

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