DeLand artist studied under French mime Marcel Marceau, today's Google doodle

Google Chrome users on Wednesday were greeted with an animated doodle of Marcel Marceau on what would've been the French actor's 100th birthday.

Marceau performed all over the world as a professional mime before he died in 2007 at the age of 84, but his influence is still out there.

Jack Hill, an award-winning DeLand-based sculptor, studied under the performer in 1969 when Marceau opened a miming school in Paris.

Hill also toured with Marceau, famous for his stage persona as a clown named "Bip," in the 1970s.

When Marceau played two roles in the movie "Shanks," Hill played his double.

What did Hill learn under Marceau?

Hill said he learned humor, which would serve him well in his 20-year theater career.

"Studying and watching him was more an opportunity to see how he used the techniques and the skills to create a story, to present it, and to perform it on stage in a compelling manner," Hill said by phone Wednesday.

The experience also proved valuable in working as a sculptor, which Hill described in an interview with a local PBS station in 2017.

Hill said performing as a mime meant going through a series of movements.

"As a sculptor, I had to take that whole series and select one moment and sculpt the one moment to tell that entire story," Hill said.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: DeLand artist studied under Marcel Marceau, today's Google doodle