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unusual facts about Illusionist



Andi Gladwin

Gladwin's TV engagements include performances on BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4 (The Big Breakfast) and The Young Magician's Showcase; a television special where he was hand-picked by Las Vegas illusionist Lance Burton as one of the best young magicians in the world.

Andrew Van Buren

Van Buren appeared as the plate spinner, illusionist and guest on many television programmes, shows and specials, including the opening scene of the music video of Charlotte Church's song "Call My Name".

Arioch

Arioch is also the name of an escape artist and magician who rose to fame in the 1990s after performing on MTV.

Audience

Psychological illusionist Derren Brown relies heavily on audience participation in his live shows.

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.

Camp Chesterfield

In March 2002, The Skeptical Inquirer published a sting operation performed by former magician and prominent skeptical paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell.

Chris Angel

Criss Angel (born 1967), illusionist, escapologist, stunt performer, and actor

Cups and balls

The Latimer Clear Cups And Balls is an illusion, created and performed by American illusionist Jason Latimer.

Deep Breakfast

"The Oh of Pleasure" is also heard in the animated series Napoleon Dynamite, when Kip performs his illusionist trick in front of an audience.

Frewin

Greg Frewin (born 1967), a Canadian illusionist and magician.

Glen David Gold

Glen David Gold (born 1964) is known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil, a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter (1874–1936), an American illusionist performing from c.

Gopinath Muthukad

on 5 November 2007 that Magician Muthukad and his team set a world record by performing the Indo-China friendship magic show at Nathu La Sikkim, a historic trade corridor 14,400 feet high in the Himalayas.

Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Dutch illusionist Hans Klok and Darren Romeo perform the famous "Blackstone Floating Light Bulb" illusion under a licensing agreement with Blackstone Magik Enterprises Inc.

Homotopia

Homotopia stars San Francisco based performance/visual artist Jason/Joy Fritz, gender illusionist Susan Withans, Kentaro J. Kaneko who worked with gay shame, Ralowe T. Ampu formally of Deep Dickollective and author/activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore AKA Matt Bernstein Sycamore among others.

Ian Rowland

He was featured in the 1996 Channel 4 documentary Break the Science Barrier with Richard Dawkins, where he showed various tricks, as he performs them in his lectures as an illusionist.

Ingo Oschmann

Since 2004, Oschmann has had numerous appearances as a stand-up comedian, magician and guest on all major German TV channels, e.g. performances and scenes with well-known artists like Dieter Hallervorden and Jürgen von der Lippe, as well as invitations for all the main comedy and evening shows of famous German TV presenters like Hugo Egon Balder, Thomas Hermanns and Anke Engelke - just to name a few.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

The Marvelous Orange Tree trick was used by the eponymous conjurer in Steven Millhauser's short story, "Eisenheim The Illusionist", subsequently filmed as The Illusionist (2006), where a more complex variant is shown.

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.

Jon Doust

He has supported local and international comedy acts including Alexei Sayle, Hale and Pace, Richard Stubbs, Rachel Berger and illusionist Robert Gallop.

Ludovic Depickère

Ludovic Depickère (born July 29, 1969 in Wattrelos, Nord) is a retired magician and freestyle swimmer from France, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988.

Manon von Gerkan

She is the daughter of German architect Meinhard von Gerkan and a former girlfriend of American illusionist and stunt performer David Blaine.

Mark Kalin and Jinger

In 2001, Kalin & Jinger purchased the remaining company interest in Supreme Entertainment and formed a new company, Majikal Productions, employing the talents of magician and former Copperfield choreographer Joanie Spina and leading illusion designer Jim Steinmeyer.

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.

Mike Super

He, along with 9 other contestants, competed over a series of 5 weeks on live network television, and he was unanimously voted by mentalist Uri Geller, illusionist Criss Angel, and the American public as the number 1 mystifier in the world.

Nerella Venu Madhav

Ventriloquist Mimicry Srinivos an international performer and one and only sound illusionist is a disciple of sri Nerella Venumadhav.

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.

Peter Valance (born June 4, 1980, Riedlingen) is a German illusionist.

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.

Psychic Readings Live

Illusionist Keith Barry, expressing his disapproval of Psychic Readings Live, challenged one of its presenters (Psychic Wayne) to a magic duel.

Ron Blanchard

For the past 12 years he's been traveling the world playing the role of an English butler for the famous Swedish illusionist Joe Labero.

Talk down aircraft landing

In 2010 British hypnotist and illusionist Derren Brown presented a programme on Channel 4 television entitled "Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet".

The Slammer

Making three appearances in the opening credits of the first four series is British Illusionist Andrew Van Buren, presenting his version of the Miss Made Girl illusion, a flower production & "featured backstage" behind a piece of falling scenery.

Three-card Monte

After revealing the secret behind the trick on the British television show How Do They Do That?, American illusionist John Lenahan became the first person to be expelled from The Magic Circle.

Two Curious Puppies

In Prest-O Change-O, their second cartoon, they are pursued by a dog catcher and must hide in a house that is owned by the magician Sham Fu and his pet rabbit, a prototype Bugs Bunny.

Zoetrope: All-Story

Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist," which inspired Neil Burger's 2006 film The Illusionist, Alice Munro's story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain," which Sarah Polley adapted into the film Away From Her in 2006, and Wes Anderson's screenplay for the short film Hotel Chevalier in Winter 2007 are recent examples of All-Storys Classic Reprint.


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