Joseph —, English actor and clown who died in 1837 (8)
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I believe the answer is:
grimaldi
(Other definitions for grimaldi that I've seen before include "English clown's" , "Ruling house of Monaco" , "Joseph -, eighteenth to nineteenth century English clown" , "Genoese family" , "Pantomime actor" .)