biography
pronunciation:
[grimaldee]
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| lived:
| (1779–1837)
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| biography:
| Comic actor, singer, and acrobat, born in London, UK. From 1800 until his retirement through ill health in 1828, he dominated the stage of Sadler's Wells as the figure of ‘Clown’ in the English harlequinade. Many of his innovations became distinctive characteristics of the pantomime clown, or ‘Joey’. His Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838) was edited by Charles Dickens. |
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