Francisco Reynders

Actor

Date of birth : 05/01/1929

Date of death : 10/10/1996

City of birth : Amsterdam, Netherlands

Francisco "Frans" Reynders was an active and highly-regarded mime, theatrical designer and fine artist. Growing up in The Netherlands, he eventually moved to the United States, first living in New York City. He later moved to Portland, Oregon where he taught at Lewis and Clark College and founded the Oregon Mime Theater in 1973. His four-act mime play The Life of an Artist (initially staged in 1973) was the first such production ever done in the United States.