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Born December 18, 1778 • London • England
Died May 31, 1837 (aged 58) • London • England

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Joseph Grimaldi as the clown in Harlequin Padmanada; or, The Golden Fish
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British entertainer
Red Skelton
American actor
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
British actor, director, writer, and composer
Mathews, Charles James
Charles James Mathews
English writer and comedian
Marie Tempest
Marie Tempest
British actress
Charles Mathews, detail from a mezzotint by C. Turner, 1825, after an oil painting by James Lonsdale
Charles Mathews
British actor
The “Great Stone Face”
Buster Keaton
American actor
Bob Hope
Bob Hope
American actor and entertainer
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen
British actor
John Cleese.
John Cleese
British actor
Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Peter Sellers
British actor
Dawn French
Dawn French
Welsh actress
Eric Sykes
British comedy writer and performer
Chapman, Graham
Graham Chapman
British comedian and writer
Kelly, Emmett
Emmett Kelly
American clown
Grock
Grock
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Dan Rice
American clown
Dame Cicely Courtneidge
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Popov, Oleg
Oleg Popov
Russian clown
Lupino Lane
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