Carlo Mazzone(1920-2000)
- Actor
Carlo Mazzone was born in Padua, Italy and worked with Vittorio
Gassman, Dario Fo, Giorgio Strehler and others in post-war Italy. He
began his performing career as a mime and was Marcel Marceau's first
Italian partner. He was assistant to Jacques Lecoq from 1948 -1951. In
1958 he emigrated to the USA, where he appeared in a number of stage
productions and in the 1965 film "The American Wife" with Ugo Tognazzi.
He began to use both parents names, and became known as Carlo
Mazzone-Clementi. He devoted his life to the spread of mime and
Commedia dell'Arte in the USA, and taught at Stratford, Ontario;
Carnegie Mellon, Brandeis, NYU, and the American Conservatory Theatre.
His students included Julie Harris, Rene Auberjonois, Joan van Ark. In
1974 with his wife Jane Hill, he founded a school in northern
California, for the physical training of the actor. Called the
Dell'Arte School of Mime & Comedy, the school continues to this day as
Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
More to explore
Add demo reel with IMDbPro
How much have you seen?
Keep track of how much of Carlo Mazzone’s work you have seen. Go to your list.