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5 unusual facts about David Copperfield


David Copperfield

David is born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his father.

David Copperfield's flying illusion

He then selects a female volunteer from his audience and flies with her in a fashion similar to Superman carrying Lois Lane.

The performance is accompanied by an orchestration called "East of Eden Suite" by film composer Lee Holdridge, originally written as the theme music for a 1981 miniseries based on the novel East of Eden.

Mikhail Albov

He was especially interested in foreign works such as Robinson Crusoe and David Copperfield.

Peggotty Bluff

In 1916, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party from Elephant Island established a camp, using the upturned James Caird near the head of King Haakon Bay which they called Peggotty Camp, after the family in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield who lived in a home made from a beached boat.


Big Secrets

Other mysteries explored in the series include Mount Weather, the number stations, backmasking on records, the secrets of Scientology, the true identities of The Residents, the initiation rites of the Freemasons and of college fraternities, anti-counterfeiting devices on money and documents, and the magic of David Copperfield.

Helen Ernstone

At the Olympic Theatre later in 1869, she was Martha in Little Em'ly by Andrew Halliday, based on Dickens's David Copperfield.

Houghton Lodge

The house and grounds have been used as filming locations for the film Wilde, and the television adaptations of David Copperfield, The Buccaneers and The Murder at the Vicarage.

Jerry Farber

In addition, he performed in a number of radio adaptations of literary works—appearing as David Copperfield on Favorite Story, as Huckleberry Finn on NBC University Theater, and as Oliver Twist, together with Basil Rathbone as Fagin, on Stars Over Hollywood.

Jim O'Rear

O’Rear began his professional career as a magician working on stage with magicians including David Copperfield and Harry Blackstone, Jr. He then trained as an actor at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

Laura Harling

Other appearances include The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997), Invasion: Earth (1998), Nightworld: Lost Souls (1998), Casualty (1999) and Little Em'ly in David Copperfield (1999), which starred Daniel Radcliffe, Bob Hoskins and Maggie Smith.

Max Maven

He has been a magic consultant for such performers as David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, Siegfried & Roy, and Doug Henning, and he is a frequent contributor to industry journals such as Genii, The Linking Ring, and M-U-M.

Peter Valance

This award, which is the highest honor in the international magic community, was also given to David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy and Criss Angel.

Premier Exhibitions

In 1999 founder Arnie Geller (Atlanta, Georgia), John Joslyn (Los Angeles, California), G. Michael Harris (Belleair, Florida), and music promoter Joseph B. Marsh (who handled tours for Janet Jackson, David Copperfield, and Fleetwood Mac) led a takeover and ousting of Tulloch.

Raymond Adamson

Born in Beckenham, then in Kent, he made his TV debut in 1956, playing a constable in David Copperfield.

Stephen Thorne

Other television work includes Death of an Expert Witness, David Copperfield and Last of the Summer Wine.


see also

Betsey Trotwood

Betsey Trotwood plays a bigger role in David Copperfield's later life by taking him in after he has run away from labelling wine bottles in the factory in Blackheath where his stepfather, Edward Murdstone, had placed him to work after the death of David's mother.

Bleak House, Broadstairs

Charles Dickens spent Summer holidays at Fort House in the 1850s and 1860s and it was there in that "airy nest" above the harbour that he wrote perhaps his most meritous work, David Copperfield.

Micawber

Wilkins Micawber, a character in David Copperfield, a novel by Charles Dickens