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.
