Ivan Radunsky

{{Short description|Polish clown}}

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|name=Ivan Radunsky

|birth_date=1872

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|death_date=1955

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|occupation=Clown, actor

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Ivan Radunsky (1872 – 1955) played the part of Bim in the clown duo of Bim Bom.{{cite book|author=Adrian Room|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C&pg=PA61|date=1 July 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5763-2|pages=61–62}} He was the founder of that duo.{{cite book|author=Nikolaĭ Robertovich Ėrdman|title=A Meeting about Laughter: Sketches, Interludes, and Theatrical Parodies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L94GUDmAQq0C&pg=PA28|year=1995|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-3-7186-5580-9|page=28}}

He was a Pole by birth.

His group may have influenced the characters "Bim" and "Bom" in Samuel Beckett's More Pricks than Kicks and What Where.

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Category:1872 births

Category:1955 deaths

Category:People from the Russian Empire

Category:Soviet clowns

Category:Soviet people of Polish descent

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