Bibliography
Books
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- The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre - Jaques Lecoq
- Tragedy and Comedy - Walter Kerr
- The Silent Clowns - Walter Kerr
- The Tricks of the Trade - Dario Fo
- The Commedia Dell’Arte - Giacomo Oreglia
- The Italian Comedy - Pierre Duchartre
- Pierrot - Kay Dick
- Clowns A Panoramic History of Fools and Jesters - John Towsen (out of print)
- Charlie Chaplin’s One-Man Show - Dan Kamin
- The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion - Dan Kamin
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre - Keith Johnstone
- Impro for Storytellers - Keith Johnstone
- Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation - Halpern & Close
- Mime Spoken Here - Tony Montanaro
- The Magic Way - Juan Tamariz (available from magic dealers)
- The Five Points in Magic - Juan Tamariz
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t! Lessons in Sleight of Hand - Bill Tarr
- Folding Money Fooling: How to make entertaining novelties from dollar bills - Robert E. Neale
- Zen in the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel
- Aikido in Daily Life - Koichi Tohei (out of print)
- Book of Ki: Co-Ordinating Mind and Body in Daily Life - Koichi Tohei
- The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation - Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas
- Too Funny for Words: Disney’s Greatest Sight Gags - Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas
Thanks to Ron Anglin for putting this list together.
Films
- Children of Paradise
- La Strada - Fellini
- Films by Jacques Tati
- Sons of the Desert - Laurel and Hardy (great collection of door gags)
- Life is Beautiful - R. Benigni
- Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
Artists
- Buster Keaton
- Charlie Chaplin
- W. C. Fields
- Harry Langdon
- Harold Lloyd
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Laurel and Hardy
- Victor Borge
- The Marx Brothers
- Woody Allen
- Jacques Tati