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Philippe Clay

Born Philippe Mathevet on March 7, 1927, in Paris, France, Philippe Clay was a singer, actor, and mime. After serving military duty in the Second World War, he returned to France and enrolled at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. There, he learned diction and mime and acted in several plays between 1945 and 1949. In 1950, he began a three-year stint at the Théâtre du Palais de Chaillot. Discovered in 1947 during a talent competition, he began to perform in cabarets before moving on to perform at Trois Baudets and La Fontaine des Quatre Saisons at the dawn of t...