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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1988

erusalem — Julian Joy-
Chagrin has achieved
international fame via
an unusual route. A come-
dian, actor and mime, he also
wrote and directed the Israel-
produced television series
"The Orchestra," which has
been screened in dozens of
countries.
Eleven years ago, when
Chagrin was a rising young
star of stage and screen, he
left England and the oppor-
tunities offered by his native
London, not to go west to
America as so many aspiring
artists do, but east to the less
fashionable destination of Tel
Aviv.
Chagrin finds it difficult to
explain why he lives in Israel.
"I came here on vacation and
just didn't go home again," he
says. "A friend persuaded me
to stay to perform my show in
the Jerusalem Festival, and
after that offers of work
poured in so I just didn't
leave."
Chagrin can speak only
basic Hebrew, though he does
have an Israeli wife. He met
Rolanda seven years ago
while a drama student at Tel
Aviv University, and they
married four years later.
Chagrin has three children by
his first marriage, two of
whom live in Israel.
Rolanda insists that
beneath Chagrin's cynical
English surface is a man who
is more Jewish than he cares
to admit. For her, Israel is
home and she would be loathe
to leave, unless her husband's
work took her abroad.
Like so many immigrants,
Chagrin has a love-hate rela-
tionship with Israeli culture.
He thrives on the daily ten-
sions of Israeli life, which he
feels feed his artistic
creativity.

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His own name, Joy-
Chagrin, suggests contradic-
tory feelings. His Romanian
born father, Alexander
Pauker, changed his name to
Chagrin ("sadness" in
French) after his first wife left
him. Chagrin recently added
Joy to his name to balance
the sadness.
Chagrin studied pan-
tomime in Paris under the
legendary Lecoq. His
childhood idols were Buster
Keaton, W.C. Fields and the
Marx Brothers. He later
worked with John Cleese,
Spike Milligan and other top
British comedians.
He made a name for himself
as a mime artist in England,
starring in the film Blow Up
and was particularly in de-
mand for advertisements.
Among his most famous
television appearance was a
series of ads for Hamlet cigars
in which he played a
character crushed by life who
sought consolation in his
cigars.
But Chagrin always sought
fame as a more serious, albeit
comic, actor and the 10-part
TV series "The Orchestra"
was the culmination of that
ambition. The series won the
Golden Rose of Montreux
Award in 1985.
Though his humor comes
over as good-natured fun,
Chagrin insists that anger
and fear motivate his comic
writing — fear of bureaucracy,
authority and, yes, his father,
not to mention his mother, he
adds.
He considers Israelis to be
inhibited and lacking in
humor. "Maybe Jews have
been suffering for so long that
we've forgotten how to laugh,"
he says.
Nevertheless, in the 11
years that he has lived in
Israel he says he has been an
appreciable improvement in
the quality )i.6 humor.