He is a practiced magician, and only switched to acting as a career when he realized that he was unlikely to succeed as a magician.

Woliner was born in The Bronx, NY and began acting when he was four years old, having been discovered performing in a " father / son magician team " ( alongside his father, Alan, who did children's birthday parties under the name " Amazing Alan The Magical Rabbit ").

As a magician he taught Yukiko Kudo and Sharon Vineyard the art of disguise for their acting careers.

He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.

Ali Bongo ( 8 December 1929 – 8 March 2009 ) was a British comedy magician, and president of The Magic Circle who performed an act in which he was known as the " Shriek of Araby ".

After his death, it was rumored that John XXI had actually been a magician ( a suspicion frequently directed towards the few scholars among medieval popes even during their papacy ; cf.

** In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo ( William E Robinson, U. S .- born magician ) dies during his trick where he is supposed to " catch " two separate bullets – but one of them perforates his lung.

Since 1997, the magician and comedian Carl-Einar Häckner, together with Swedish and foreign guest artists and a variety orchestra, have had a main stage variety during most of July each season.

* Black Herman, African American stage magician during the Jim Crow laws era

He often performed as a magician during the personal appearance tours in theaters promoting his latest films.

Jack Faust is a magician who first approaches Sophie in order to confuse her during her first days as Promethea.

Royal Air Force Corporal Peter Newkirk ( British-American actor Richard Dawson ) is the group's conman, magician, pick-pocket, card sharp, forger, bookie, tailor, lock picker, safe cracker and impersonator of German officers ( and on one occasion, Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the war ); on numerous occasions Newkirk also impersonates women to fool the Germans and help the underground movement.

In 2003, she also posed for a photoshoot by photographer Sam Jones, during which she was levitated several feet into the air by a magician, who later also sawed her in half.

Her parents encouraged her to perform, and her father, who had been named New York City's " official magician " by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia during the Great Depression, taught her to perform specialized magic acts by age 13.

It was during this time that he made a cameo appearance in The Beatles ' movie, A Hard Day's Night ( in which he appeared as " Leslie Jackson ", a magician with doves ).

Catalogued in the CNC ( Centre National de la Cinématographie ) archives under the impersonal moniker ‘ Film Tati Nº 4 ’, Written in the late 1950s, the treatment was to have been the follow-up to Tati ’ s internationally successful “ Mon Oncle .” It tells the bittersweet tale of a modestly talented magician — referred to only as the illusionist — who, during a tour of decaying music halls in Eastern Europe, protectively takes an impoverished young woman under his wing.

His greatest weakness was a fragile nervous system and erratic temperament, but when he maintained his concentration during a match, he could conjure up the most devastating tennis, being regarded as a tennis magician or an artist creating with great originality and panache.

His best-known works are his novels about Vergil Magus, the magician that medieval legend made out of the Roman poet Virgil ; the Peregrine novels, a comic view of Europe shortly after the fall of Rome ; the Jack Limekiller stories about a Canadian living in an imaginary Central American country modelled after Belize during the 1960s, and the stories of Dr. Eszterhazy, a sort of even more erudite Sherlock Holmesian figure living in the mythical Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania, the waning fourth-largest empire in Europe.

In addition to his magic shows he hosted a number of other television series during the 1980s and 1990s, including three BBC1 quiz shows: Odd One Out, Every Second Counts and Wipeout, and the children's television programme Wizbit ( also for the BBC ), about a magician called Wizbit and a rabbit called Woolly, who lived in Puzzleopolis.

In 2007, she took part in a UNICEF benefit show in Los Angeles during which magician David Copperfield sawed her in half using his antique Buzz Saw illusion.

Harry Kellar ( July 11, 1849 – March 10, 1922 ) was an American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The show kickstarted the career of magician Hans Kazan who first expressed his skills during the 1976 / 77 season.

While pointing out the meager attestation and apparent belatedness of the miracles ' appearance in the trajectory of the canon, Crossan takes the opposite view, that Jesus was known during earliest Christianity as a powerful magician, which was " a very problematic and controversial phenomenon not only for his enemies but even for his friends ," who began washing miracles out of the tradition early on.

This must be performed by the magician during the act of gathering up the right-hand line of cards, while the subject is distracted by gathering up their own line.

Chapter 13 of the book Magician's Magic by Paul Curry describes a dinner party during World War II at which a magician named Harry Green performed the trick for Winston Churchill.

The film opens with a daredevil escape magician Ramesh Kumar ( Ramesh Deo ) receiving word that his close friend Inspector Hanuman Prasad ( Pran ) has just lost his wife during childbirth.

Examples include a trick in which Melinda Saxe escaped from a tank filled with snakes during the 1998 television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic and a performance in the sequel show the following year in which the magician Margo was shackled in a coffin filled with rats and escaped to re-appear from behind the audience.

Suave, witty, and congenial, Fox juggled the slapstick and the serious, turning the marathon Wonderama ( during Fox's tenure the show ran four hours Sunday mornings ) into a weekly academy at which anything could happen and often did ; whether Shakespearean dramatizations, guest celebrities, magic demonstrations ( customarily by legendary magician James " The Amazing " Randi ), art instruction, spelling bees, learning games, or other elements.

However, she has also shown genuine affection and emotion, even if she tries to hide it: when her affair with Tamlin leaves her with a human son ( possibly the powerful magician Timothy Hunter ), she is devastated to have to send him to Earth to keep the secret of her nature and her affair from the King and risks sending her entire realm to war against Hell to protect her son with Auberon from being kept in Hell as payment of Faerie's tithe to the demons.

After the war was concluded, they were relocated by the magician Pug, who sought to remove them from the Kingdom without fighting.

: First appearing in the novel Drachenfels by Jack Yeovil and subsequently in Castle Drachenfels for WFRP Drachenfels is a magician who cheats death by taking over the mind and soul of one of those at the killing and subsequently uses them to kill the others who were there and taking body parts to complete the transformation but who is killed by an actor / playwright ( Detlef Sierck invoking Sigmar and using a war hammer ) and Genevieive.

In addition to Florescu's speculative work, the Dippel / Frankenstein merging has appeared in several works of fiction: Robert Anton Wilson's fantasy novel The Earth Will Shake features Dippel as a monster-making, globe-hopping magician who calls himself Frankenstein ; the science fiction novel The Frankenstein Murders portrays Dippel as an assistant to Victor Frankenstein ; Topps ' three-part comic book miniseries The Frankenstein-Dracula War lists Dippel as one of Dr. Frankenstein's chief inspirations ; Warren Ellis's graphic novel Frankenstein's Womb hypothesizes that Shelley indeed visited Castle Frankenstein and heard of Dippel before writing her famous work ; Christopher Farnsworth's debut novel Blood Oath features a vampire trying to stop an immortal Dippel ( who had once worked for Adolf Hitler ) from creating a Frankenstein-like army ; G. M. S.

In addition to great physical strength and cybernetic implants, T-Hoppy is also an accomplished stage magician.

In addition to eight appearances on Saturday Night Live between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man " Harry the Hat " on Cheers, toured extensively as a magician, and did several magic / comedy shows for broadcast, including Harry Anderson's Sideshow ( 1987 ).

In addition, there are plenty of flatted societies like Rajasthali Apartments, Madhuban Apartments, Income Tax Colony, Ashiana, Xavier Apartments. On 5 October 2011 Indian celebrity illusionist and magician Rajesh Kumar vanished this TV Tower in the broad day light for a live audience for the promotion of a Magic Festival which was organised by delhi tourism on 7 – 9 October 2011.

In addition to being a scientist and engineer, Wittman is also a talented stage magician, escape artist, and master of disguise.

Comically, they wrote " In addition to your standard bouncing balls, Glover -- being a magician of sorts, also possesses the ability to transform his balls !".

She was a magician who had three arts she learned: enchantment, magic, and divination.

Joined by Myau, a talking cat, Odin, once a member of Nero's rebellion, and the Esper magician Noah ( Lutz in the Japanese version and further English games ), Alis embarks on an adventure spanning all three planets.

* In The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, the scholar Dunstan Ramsay and the stage magician Paul Dempster a. k. a. Magnus Eisengrim end up as the " permanent guests " and lovers of the eccentric Swiss millionaire Lieselotte Naegeli – the three of them occasionally sharing an especially large bed, though " most often in order to have a breakfast in bed or take an important decision " rather than for sex.

Sleight of hand is often used in close-up magic, performed with the audience close to the magician, usually within three or four meters, possibly in physical contact.

In Oz: the Great and Powerful, when Oscar Diggs ( James Franco ), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he ’ s hit the jackpot — fame and fortune are his for the taking — that is until he meets three witches, Theodora ( Mila Kunis ), Evanora ( Rachel Weisz ), and Glinda ( Michelle Williams ), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone ’ s been expecting.

On the theme in the Canterbury Tales about freedom and sovereignty in marriage, the Franklin's Tale arguably explores three successive acts of conscience or gentilesse springing from rich human generosity: by Dorigen's husband, her suitor and the magician who cancels the debt owed to him.

Microsoft introduced animated “ Search Companions ” in an attempt to make searching more engaging and friendly ; the default character is a puppy named Rover ( previously used in Microsoft BOB ), with three other characters ( Merlin the magician, Earl the surfer, and Courtney ) also available.

The plot revolves around three show-biz has-beens: lounge singer Hugh Butternut, an exuberant musician with a vulnerable soul who has spent the past two and a half decades performing in a coffee bar ; the titular Triple Espresso ; Bobby Bean, an irrepressible, but not-too-sharp entertainer ; and taciturn magician Buzz Maxwell ; the group's straight man and the brains behind the unintentional comedy team within the show.

The documentary follows three genuine hustlers – a magician and professional gambler, a glamorous actress, and a professional sleight-of-hand artist and crooked gambling consultant – as they pull short-cons on unsuspecting businesses and members of the public.

Sleight of hand is often used in close-up magic, performed with the audience close to the magician, usually within three or four meters, possibly in physical contact.

All three novels follow in part or wholly the career of a fictitious magician, Magnus Eisengrim, who was abducted as a boy by a traveling circus and learned his craft while concealed in a papier-mâché automaton.

Probably not more than one man in a million of European blood is fitted -- either physically, morally, or psychologically -- to become a practical magician, and not one in ten millions would be found endowed with all these three qualifications as required for the work.

Another one of Scarne's most notable card effects was the triple coincidence, in which a spectator and a magician each pick three different playing cards out of two regular decks of opposite colors and it is shown that all of the selections match.

Each player places on the board three tokens: a magician, a witches ' hat and an Elfstone.

Fred Kaps in 1959Fred Kaps ( official name Abraham Pieter Adrianus Bongers ), ( June 8, 1926 – July 22, 1980 ) was a Dutch magician, famous for being the only magician to become FISM Grand Prix world champion three times.

Fred Kaps was the only magician to win three times.

Rubik helped three siblings — Carlos, Lisa, and Reynaldo Rodriguez — in foiling the magician ’ s attempts to recover Rubik.

As the movie ends, the three take a walk discussing the Child's return to Tibet and ( as Chandler jokingly suggests ) the boy's prospective fame as a stage magician.

There are three basic variants, which differ in the degree of theatricality displayed by the magician and his helper.