Mime FLIP REED on the Gong show Phillip "Flip" Reade

This is used with permission, for a memorial page for Phillip "Flip" Reed who died shortly after this taping. He was a Mime teacher/performer that worked with many schools in the Los Angeles area in the late 70's. He was also a black belt martial artist and actor. He died in a diving accident. If you have any photos or info on Flip, please leave a comment or a link, as I am building a tribute page to the man who inspired me to learn mime.
Thanks! Nate Truman

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Comedy

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• mime
• gong show
• Chuck Barris
• Nate Truman
• Marcel Marceau
• Shields and Yarnell
• Robert Sheilds
• pantomime
• weight lifter

[CAROLKL]

Thanks for posting this. I actually was a girlfriend and close friend of Flip's during the late 60's and early 70's. I will dig up pictures. Met at College of San Mateo.

Carol Brolaski Kline

[n8mobiles]

@CAROLKL that would be great. There are so few photos of any of his work, and I had to buy this dvd, and remaster it so the sound lined up. Please post the photos and let me know where they are. If you are interested in putting together a memoriam site with his performance info, let me know. Lists of performances, work at the schools etc.

[n8mobiles]

Flip was the first mime I ever saw perform, at Lindero Canyon Middle school, and I was amazed! He started my interest in Mime, and I ended up learning from Richmond Shepard and briefly with Marcel Marceau. If you find any other video of him performing, or have photos from the camp, I would love to see them! I would like to put up a tribute site so other's who knew Flip could post photos and memories.

[xdavetaylorx]

Brings back good memories. I saw Flip when I was a kid. He performed at National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, NY. He did the 98-lb. weakling versus the strong man on the beach. Unforgettable!!

[chahlie13]

Very good memories of Flip from Meadow Oaks Camp... He treated each kid, even impossible miscreants like me, as individuals and never judged. I was just a kid when I learned of his death. "Only the good die young," has rarely been so apt a cliche...

[TyzWyz]

Fond memories of Flip at Camp Meadow Oaks and Brett Gold's Tang Soo Do. He taught me much; wrestling, judo, trampoline, pantomime, riding horses, go-carts, etc...

[SantaBarbaraDianne]

I Googled his name after finding the program from my high school where he performed at w/his wife in 1978. I had no idea that he died tragically so long ago. I remember his visit very vividly and fondly.

[RivenrockGardens]

He visited my High School in Lompoc Calif in the mid 70's. He was VERY talented and impressive. he died while offshore from lompoc diving, I've heard his body was never recovered...

[RivenrockGardens]

He visited my High School in Lompoc Calif in the mid 70's. He was VERY talented and impressive. he died while offshore from lompoc diving, I've heard his body was never recovered...

[slief]

Flip was a great person! He was the headmaster at a camp I attended and definately one of the fondest memories I have of that camp. He will always be missed!! Thanks for sharing this!

[rwthill]

I went to Westmoor high school with Flip where we wer both on the wrestling team (he was two years ahead of me). At one of out multi-year class reunions, I heard that he had died in a diving accident, but never knew the circumstances. I saw Flip once on an episode of Barney Miller, where he played a mime. Does anyone have more information? Richard Thill