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- Birth nameBernard Nathan Bragg
- Bernard Bragg was born on September 27, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Simone (2009), ...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979) and NBC Experiment in Television (1967). He died on October 29, 2018 in Los Angeles, USA.
- Deaf actor, born to deaf parents.
- In 1967, he helped establish the National Theatre of the Deaf in Connecticut. His co-founders included Edna Simon Levine, a psychologist who specialized in deafness, and Broadway set designer David Hays, who had worked on the production of "The Miracle Worker".
- He graduated in 1952 from Gallaudet, a university for deaf students, where he participated in campus theater as an actor and director. He received a master's degree in special education from San Francisco State University in 1959.
- He wanted to be an actor but had little hope of that, until he attended a performance by Marcel Marceau, the world-renowned French mime. He became a student of Marceau in France, and began appearing in nightclubs and theaters in the United States, becoming known as "America's master of mime".
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