Simon Drake

Simon Drake is best known for the innovative and shocking television series Secret Cabaret made for Britain’s Channel 4. Here’s his performance of Russian Roulette. Derren Brown was just a twinkle in Annemann’s eye when this was broadcast.

Watch Simon Drake cheat death.

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Mar 16, 2010 | close up magic, mentalism, top rotation | 1 Comment »

Tobias ‘Okito’ Bamberg

Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg was a professional magician. Born in Holland, Bamberg performed under the name Okito which was an anagram of Tokio (Tokyo). Subsequently, ...

Mar 15, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Tobias ‘Okito’ Bamberg

David Nixon

David Nixon was an English magician and television personality. At the height of his career, Nixon was the best-known magician in the UK. Nixon's father was ...

Mar 14, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on David Nixon

Kuda Bux

Kuda Bux was an Indian mystic and magician. One of his most famous tricks was one in which he would cover his eyes with soft ...

Mar 13, 2010 | Other, top rotation | Comments Off on Kuda Bux

Shaolin Magic

Magic is part of the Chinese culture. Proof may be found in such notable films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Other forms of authentication may ...

Mar 12, 2010 | Other, top rotation | Comments Off on Shaolin Magic

Roy Benson

Roy Benson was a legendary performer: a brilliant magician whose ingenious techniques baffled his peers, a superb manipulator, and a daring comedy magician considered far ...

Mar 11, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Roy Benson

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones has been entertaining since the age of 12, when he appeared as a magician with Johnny Carson. Chuck found his calling and thus ...

Mar 10, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Chuck Jones

Franz Harary

Franz Harary is an American magician and inventor who has appeared on television shows such as the first episode of NBC's The World's Greatest Magic, ...

Mar 09, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Franz Harary

Milbourne Christopher

He wrote more than twenty books, was national president of the Society of American Magicians (SAM), and was an honorary vice-president to the London Magic ...

Mar 08, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Milbourne Christopher

Richiardi Jr.

Richiardi Jr. He became infamous for dramatic and gory stage presentations of classic stage illusions. In 1949, Time magazine noted that these shock tactics had made ...

Mar 07, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | 3 Comments »

Omar Pasha

Omar Pasha is an act created in 1895 by M. Bershceid, a German business man and amateur magician. Currently, the Omar Pasha act is exclusively ...

Mar 06, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | 2 Comments »

Lee Eun Gyeol

Korean magician Lee Eun Gyeol took the first prize in general magic at the 23rd FISM World Championships of Magic on Sunday (Korean time) in ...

Mar 05, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Lee Eun Gyeol

Frank Brents

To date, Frank Brents has performed in over 40 countries; the Olympia Theater in Paris, the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin, the Loew's Hotel in Monte Carlo, ...

Mar 04, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Frank Brents

Jerry Andrus

Jerry Andrus was many things - poet, philosopher, inventor, humanist, agnostic, magician; all these things and more. Jerry was mostly recognized as a magician and ...

Mar 03, 2010 | card magic, close up magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Jerry Andrus

Lennart Green

An international lecturer and FISM's 1991 World Close Up Champion of The World, Lennart Green is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Lennart might have won FISM ...

Mar 02, 2010 | card magic, close up magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Lennart Green

Penn & Teller

For over 30 years, Penn & Teller have been performing together. The Las Vegas headliners specialize in gory magic, exposing frauds and are clever pranksters. ...

Mar 01, 2010 | card magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Penn & Teller

Greg Frewin

Greg Frewin is a down-to-earth type of guy who has won every magic award possible. He's the only magician ever in the World to have ...

Feb 28, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | 1 Comment »

Lewis Ganson

Lewis Ganson (1930 -1980) was born in London, England and become one of the most prolific writers in magic. He went on to write more ...

Feb 27, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Lewis Ganson

Suzy Wandas

Suzy Wandas (1896 - July 12, 1986) was born Jean Van Dyk in Belgium to magicians Charles and Elizabeth Van Dyk. She became part of ...

Feb 26, 2010 | card magic, top rotation | 2 Comments »

Max Maven

Max Maven is an American magician and mentalist. He often appears on television magic shows to perform "interactive" mind reading tricks that work for the ...

Feb 25, 2010 | mentalism, top rotation | 1 Comment »

Paul Potassy

Paul Potassy was born in 1923 in Austria. With over 66 years of performance under his belt, Paul has performed in over 44 countries. Not ...

Feb 24, 2010 | close up magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Paul Potassy

Chu Chin Foo

Originally born in Ferrara, Italy, Alberto Sitta (AKA Chu Chin Foo) moved to Bologna was he was a little boy. Eventually he grew up to ...

Feb 22, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Chu Chin Foo

Thomas Solomon

An early fascination with mechanical devices and locks led Thomas Solomon towards a successful career as an escape artist and magician. Thomas has performed his award-winning ...

Feb 21, 2010 | Other, top rotation | Comments Off on Thomas Solomon

Juliana Chen

Juliana Chen was born and raised in the Hunan Province of the People's Republic of China. Her parents were proud when, at 10 years of ...

Feb 19, 2010 | stage magic, top rotation | Comments Off on Juliana Chen