Marcel Marceau ( French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl maʁso]; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, " Bip the Clown". Regisseur Maurizius Staerkle Drux versteht es, seine eigene Familiengeschichte (gehörloser Vater, der auch als Pantomime auftritt), Interviews mit den Verwandten und Schülern sowie das Filmen derer theatralischer Aktivitäten in sehr klug konzipierter Schnittfolge mit alten Aufnahmen des Meisters zu einem flüssigen Ganzen zu verbinden. In 1947 Marceau created Bip the Clown, whom he first played at the Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) in Paris. Owing to Marceau's fluency in English, French, and German, he worked as a liaison officer with General George Patton's Third Army.

As a Jewish youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August.

In 1969, Marcel Marceau opened his first school, École Internationale de Mime, in the Théàtre de la Musique in Paris. His silent mimed exercises, which included The Cage, Walking Against the Wind, The Mask Maker, and In The Park, all became classic displays.

His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman, Mike Douglas and Dinah Shore, and he also had his one-man show entitled "Meet Marcel Marceau". 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. Marceau was an elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France. Die Kunst der Stille” ist ein Dokumentarfilm über den verstorbenen Großmeister der Pantomime – Marcel Marceau. I just wish it had been a tv series where each thread was given the justice it deserved, and not entwined throughout because inevitably, there are snags and knots.In November 1998, President Jacques Chirac made Marceau a grand officer of the Ordre national du Mérite. In 1944 Marcel's father was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed. 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. According to Marceau, when he was five years of age, his mother took him to see a Charlie Chaplin film, which entranced him and led him to want to become a mime artist.

His last film appearances included small roles in Klaus Kinski's Paganini (1989) and Joseph's Gift (1998). 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.The art of silence speaks to the soul, like music, making comedy, tragedy, and romance, involving you and your life. The ensemble played the leading Paris theatres, such as Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Le Théâtre de la Renaissance, and the Bernhardt Theatre, as well as other playhouses throughout the world. In his documentary, director Maurizius Staerkle Drux senses the legacy of this century artist and weaves exclusive archival material with a personal, contemporary look. His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Taiwan, Russia, and Europe. As an author, Marceau published two books for children, the Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book and the Marcel Marceau Counting Book, and poetry and illustrations, including La ballade de Paris et du Monde ( The Ballad of Paris and the World), an art book which he wrote in 1966, and The Story of Bip, written and illustrated by Marceau and published by Harper and Row.