Grock
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Grock (born Charles Adrien Wettach; 10 January 1880 – 14 July 1959) was a Swiss clown. Called "the king of clowns" and "the greatest of Europe's clowns", Grock was once the most highly paid entertainer in Europe.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1880
- Died
- 1959
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Life's a Lark
- Grock, ich lebe gern!
- Sans blague!
- Sans blague! ma carrière de clown
- Nit m-ö-ö-ö-glich
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Active from
- 1880-01-10
- Active to
- 1959-07-14
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 198
- Total plays
- 559
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Grock">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Grock
- Person.image
- Grock 1903.jpg
- Person.caption
- Grock in 1903
- Person.birth_name
- Charles Adrien Wettach
- Person.birth_place
- Loveresse, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Person.death_place
- Imperia, Italy
- Person.occupation
- Clown, music hall performer
- Person.years_active
- 1890s–1954
- Person.signature
- Unterschrift Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach) Schweizer Clown.png
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Loveresse
- Place of death
- Imperia
- Occupation
- clown
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Instrument
- accordion
- Image
- Grock 1903.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- pseudonym
- Grock
- birth name
- Charles Adrien Wettach
- Commons category
- Grock
- date of birth
- 1880-01-10
- date of death
- 1959-07-14
- art name
- Grock
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Reichenbach im Kandertal
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Grock, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early life
- Career and later life
- Media
- Legacy
- Filmography
- Books
- Notes
- Additional references
- External links
Grock (born Charles Adrien Wettach; 10 January 1880 – 14 July 1959) was a Swiss clown. Called "the king of clowns" and "the greatest of Europe's clowns", Grock was once the most highly paid entertainer in Europe.
== Biography ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
Available in 18 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- Русский
- Italiano
- Armenian
- Czech
- Danish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Finnish
- Hungarian
- Luxembourgish
- Nederlands
- South Ndebele
- Svenska
- Welsh
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