(FILES) A picture taken 19 September 2000 in Paris shows French mime Marcel Marcau performing at the Olympia concert hall. Marceau died 22 September 2007, aged 83, according to two of his children. Marceau, born in Strasbourg, eastern France, 22 March 1923, founded his own company in 1947, and created his own character “Bip”, inspired by Chaplin and Keaton. AFP PHOTO PHILIPPE DRISS