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GRIMALDI, JOSEPH (17791837)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 598 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GRIMALDI, JOSEPH (17791837) , the most celebrated of
English
  clowns, was born in London on the 18th of December 1779, the son of an Italian actor. When less than two years old he was brought upon the stage at
Drury
 
Lane
 ; at the age of three he began to appear at
Sadler
 's Wells; and he did not finally retire until 1828. As the clown of pantomime he was considered without an equal, his greatest success being in
Mother
 
Goose
 , at Covent
Garden
  (1806 and often revived). Grimaldi died on the 31st of May 1837.
His Memoirs in two volumes (1838) were edited by Charles Dickens.


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