Lindsay Keith Kemp was a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer.
Kemp in 2016
A mime artist, or simply mime, is a person who uses mime, the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or skit without sound.
Mime artists Jean Soubeyran and Brigitte Soubeyran in 1950
A Dog's Life (1918), Charlie Chaplin
Whitefaced mime on Boston Common in 1980