Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

actor, writer, director

Marcel Duchamp was born on Jul 28, 1887 in France. Marcel Duchamp's big-screen debut came with Entr'acte directed by René Clair in 1924, strarring Un joueur d'échecs. Marcel Duchamp is known for Entr'acte directed by René Clair, Jean Börlin stars as Le chasseur au chapeau tyrolien and Inge Frïss as La ballerine. The upcoming new movie Marcel Duchamp plays is Ben Patterson - Nano Fluxus which will be released on May 01, 2013.

Famous Dada artist who shocked the world when he submitted a urinal signed "R.Mutt" to the 1917 first exhibition of the American Society of Independent Artists at the Armory Show in New York. It was reported in a press account that (Duchamp under pseudonym) J.C. Mutt of Philadelphia, little known in artistic circles, heard that payment of five dollars would permit him to send to the exhibition a work of art of any description or degree of excellence he might see fit. He complied by shipping from Quaker City a familiar article of bathroom furniture by a well known firm of that town. By the same mail went a five dollar bill. And a urinal became a "work of art". Duchamp appears in the film Entr'acte (1924) playing an absurd game of chess (his favorite, by the way) against Man Ray.

  • Birthday

    Jul 28, 1887
  • Place of Birth

    Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France