Given that Charles Chaplin was born in 1889 and died in 1977, you could be thinking of any number of people:
Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994)
Étienne Decroux (1898-1991)
Jacques Lecoq (1921-1999)
Marcel Marceau (1923- )
Jacques Tati (1908-1982)
For more on those and other mimes, visit wikipedia. In particular, the pages on Tati and Decroux have filmographies which show movies made in the silent era.
2006-11-27 10:43:03
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answered by MamaFrog 4
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Le Mime Marceau
2006-11-24 05:59:54
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answered by titoune 1
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Jacques Tati?
Originally a mime, in the late 1930s Tati recorded some of his early supporting cameos on film with some success and thus began his career as a filmmaker. His films have little audible dialogue, but instead are built around elaborate, tightly-choreographed visual gags and carefully integrated sound effects. In all but his very last film, Tati plays the lead character, who - with the exception of his first and last films - is the gauche and socially inept Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. There exist several recurrent themes in Tati's comedic work, most notably in Mon Oncle, Playtime, and Trafic . These include Western society's obsession with material goods, particularly American-style consumerism, the pressure cooker environment of modern society, the superficiality of relationships among France's various social classes, and the cold and often impractical nature of space-age technology and design.
Tati's first major feature, Jour de fête (Festival Day), tells the story of an inept rural village postman who interrupts his duties to inspect the traveling fair that has come to town. Influenced by too much wine and a documentary on the rapidity of the American postal service, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed his mail deliveries aboard his bicycle. Released in 1949, the film was shot in a new color process that turned out to be too difficult to process, and Jour de fête was subsequently released in black-and-white. The color version was discovered, restored, and released in the 1990s.
His second film, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), was released in 1953. Les Vacances introduced the character of M. Hulot and follows his adventures in France during the mandatory August vacation at a beach resort, lampooning several hidebound elements of French political and social classes along the way. The film was widely praised by critics, and earned Tati an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay which was shared with Henri Marquet.
Tati's next film, Mon Oncle (My Uncle), was his first film to be released in color and perhaps his best-known work. The plot centers on M. Hulot's comedic, quixotic and childlike struggle with postwar France's mindless obsession with modernity and American-style consumerism. Mon Oncle quickly became an international success, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.
2006-11-24 08:24:50
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answered by Bumblebois 3
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I think the most famous would be Jaque Tatty , best known for such films as "the postman" and "Mr Hulot'sHoliday" Alternatively there is also Fernan Del, but I think he may be a bit later than Chaplin. Hope it helps
2006-11-24 03:09:32
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answered by Agustin-Jean F 4
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Jacques Tati.
2006-11-24 02:37:33
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answered by Anonymous
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Etienne decroux or Jacques leqoc
2006-11-24 02:51:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Marcel Marceu...no?
2006-11-24 02:44:06
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answered by Jay 1
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2016-10-04 07:51:40
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answered by Anonymous
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i think it was marcel , something or other..cant remember the last name.
2006-11-24 02:44:19
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answered by grumpcookie 6
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