Phobias List of Famous Clowns

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Bill Irwin age 67 William Mills "Bill" Irwin is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He is best known for his vaudeville-style stage performances and has been noted for his contribution to the ...more

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John Wayne Gacy Died at 52 (1942-1994) John Wayne Gacy, Jr., also known as the Killer Clown, was an American serial killer and rapist who was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men in ...more

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Emmett Kelly Died at 81 (1898-1979) Emmett Leo Kelly was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Depression era.

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Red Skelton Died at 84 (1913-1997) Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television acts between 1937 and 1971 and as host of the television program The Red ...more

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Soupy Sales Died at 83 (1926-2009) Soupy Sales was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a ...more

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Grock Died at 79 (1880-1959) Grock, born Charles Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss clown, composer and musician. Called "the king of clowns" and "the greatest of Europe's clowns", Grock was once the most ...more

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Bob Keeshan Died at 77 (1927-2004) Robert James "Bob" Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became ...more

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Joseph Grimaldi Died at 59 (1778-1837) Joseph Grimaldi was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era. In the early 1800s, he expanded the role of Clown in the ...more

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W. C. Fields Died at 66 (1880-1946) William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields's comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a ...more

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Dimitri age 82 Dimitri. After changing his name, his official name is Jakob Dimitri. He is a well-known Swiss clown and mime.

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Otto Griebling Died at 76 (1896-1972) Otto Griebling was a German-born circus clown who performed for many years with the Cole Brothers and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circuses. He was one of four clowns given the title ...more

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Michael Goudeau age 58 Michael Carey Goudeau is a juggler and an ex-circus clown who graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He was an Emmy-nominated writer and executive producer for ...more

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Chester Conklin Died at 85 (1886-1971) Chester Cooper Conklin was an American comedic actor who appeared in over 280 films, about half of them in the silent film era.

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Wavy Gravy age 81 Wavy Gravy is an American entertainer and activist for peace, best known for his hippie appearance, personality and countercultural beliefs. His moniker was given to him by B.B. King at the ...more

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Bud Abbott Died at 79 (1895-1974) William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.

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Avner the Eccentric age 69 Avner Eisenberg "Avner the Eccentric" is an American vaudeville performer, clown, mime, juggler, and sleight of hand magician. He played the title role in the 1985 film The Jewel of ...more

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Oleg Popov age 87 Oleg Konstantinovich Popov is a famous Soviet and Russian clown and circus artist. Popov is also called the "Sunshine clown". He was born on 31 July 1930 in Moscow, the son of a ...more

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Bob Bell Died at 75 (1922-1997) Robert Lewis Bell, better known as Bob Bell, was famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown. He was the original portrayer of the character for Chicago superstation WGN-TV.

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Pinto Colvig Died at 75 (1892-1967) Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig was an American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer, whose schtick was playing the clarinet ...more

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Yuri Nikulin Died at 76 (1921-1997) Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin was a well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and Hero of ...more

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Jim Allen Jim Allen is a television producer.

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Lou Jacobs Died at 89 (1903-1992) Johann Ludwig Jacob was an auguste clown who performed for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for more than 60 years. He was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in ...more

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Willard Scott age 84 Willard Herman Scott, Jr. is an American actor, author, media personality, clown, and comedian, best known for his TV work on Today and as the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.

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Arisa age 35 Rosalba Pippa, better known by her stage name Arisa, is an Italian singer and actress.

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Achille Zavatta Died at 78 (1915-1993) Achille Zavatta was a French clown, artist and circus operator. Achille Zavatta was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, the son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner. He started performing in his ...more

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Vladimir Durov Died at 71 (1863-1934) Российский дрессировщик и цирковой артист. Заслуженный артист Республики. Учился в военной гимназии, но оставил ее, увлёкшись цирком. На арене с 1879 года. С 1883 — в цирке-зверинце Винклера в ...more

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Ernie Fosselius age 73 Ernie Fosselius is an American filmmaker who has largely stayed out of the public eye. He is best known for his satirical spoofs of popular films, including the classic Star Wars parody Hardware

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David Shiner age 64 David Shiner is an American actor, clown, playwright and theater director. Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The ...more

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Justin Fletcher age 48 Justin Fletcher, MBE is an English children's television personality in the United Kingdom. Fletcher is most associated as a presenter and actor on the BBC pre-school television channel ...more

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Steve Laporte Steve La Porte is a makeup artist. He won at the 61st Academy Awards in the category of Best Makeup for his work on Beetlejuice. He shared his Oscar with Ve Neill and Robert Short. He is also ...more

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Patch Adams age 72 Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams is an American physician, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers ...more

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Glen Little Died at 85 (1925-2010) Glen "Frosty" Little was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years. He was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the ...more

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Pierre Étaix age 89 Pierre Étaix is a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of acclaimed short- and feature-length films in the 1960s, many of them co-written by influential ...more

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Slava Polunin age 67 Vyacheslav Ivanovich “Slava” Polunin PAR is a Russian performance artist and clown. He is the creator of the stage spectacles Asisyai-revue, Slava's Snowshow and Diabolo.

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George L. Fox Died at 52 (1825-1877) George L. Fox was an American actor and dancer who became known for his clown roles and who based the characterisations on his inspiration Joseph Grimaldi.

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Christopher Fitzgerald age 45 Christopher Cantwell Fitzgerald is an American actor, singer, mime, clown, juggler, and acrobat. He is best known for his role as Boq in the musical Wicked and his role of Igor in Young ...more

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Russell Scott Died at 91 (1921-2012) Russell Scott, also known as Blinky the Clown, was an American clown and television personality and presenter who starred in a Denver, Colorado television program called Blinky's Fun Club. ...more

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Toby Philpott age 72 Toby Philpott is an English puppeteer best known for his work in motion picture animatronics during the 1980s in such films as The Dark Crystal and Return of the Jedi. Born into a family of ...more

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Raymond Devos Died at 84 (1922-2006) Raymond Devos was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.

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Søren Østergaard age 60 Søren Østergaard is a Danish film, television and stage actor.

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Annie Fratellini Died at 65 (1932-1997) Annie Fratellini was a French circus artist, clown, singer and film actress. She was born Annie Violette Fratellini in Algiers, French Algeria to a Pied-noir family of Italian descent. The ...more

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Leonid Yengibarov Died at 37 (1935-1972) Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov was a Soviet clown and actor. Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He started his career as a boxer. In 1955 he joined ...more

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Markus Kupferblum age 53 Markus Kupferblum is an Austrian theatre and opera director, author and clown. He founded the opera company "Totales Theater" in Vienna and is an expert in Commedia dell'arte and mask ...more

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Jango Edwards age 67 Jango Edwards is an American clown and entertainer who has spent most of his career in Europe, primarily in France, Spain, Netherlands, and England. His performances are mostly one-man shows in ...more

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George Carl Died at 84 (1916-2000) George Carl was a "vaudevillian" style comic & clown. Carl was born in Ohio, and started his comedy career traveling with a variety of circuses during his teenage years. In time, ...more

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Max Patkin Died at 79 (1920-1999) Max Patkin was an American baseball player and clown, best known as the Clown Prince of Baseball. Patkin was the third "officially" crowned Clown Prince of Baseball, after Al Schacht ...more

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Andy the Clown Died at 78 (1917-1995) Andy the Clown was the performing name of Andrew Rozdilsky, Jr., a lifelong Chicago resident who performed, unofficially, as a clown at Chicago White Sox games at Comiskey Park for 30 years from ...more

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Peter Behrens age 70 Peter Behrens is a German drummer, actor, musician and clown.

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Mark Stolzenberg Mark Stolzenberg is an American film and stage actor, screenwriter, producer, physical comedian and Circus Artist. He is considered by Oscar Talent Search as among the top ten acting teachers on ...more

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Bill Ballantine Died at 89 (1910-1999) Bill Ballantine, a well-respected writer and illustrator of circus subjects, was also a professional clown. A prolific writer, Ballantine contributed circus and travel essays to major magazines. ...more