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Joseph Dunniger

Publicly known as “The Amazing Dunninger”, he was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time. He was also one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television.

Dunninger was once quoted saying, “For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.”

Watch Dunniger deftly debunk phony spiritualists purporting to conjure up dead relatives and friends of naive customers.


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Becky Blaney

Becky Blaney on To Tell The Truth

Becky Blaney holds the distinction of being the only woman in the world who is a professional comedian-magician. She has captured the affection of every ...


Robert Harbin

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Robert Harbin was a performer, creator, and major inspiration for all of magic. He was the first magician to appear on television in Britain beginning ...


Dr. Hiroshi Sawa

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Shigeo Futagawa was born in Yokohama, Japan. Mr. Futagawa has contributed to many magic magazines in Japan and to S.O.B. Jr. He has performed at ...


Ching Ling Foo

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He's credited with being the first modern Oriental magician to achieve world fame. His act was in some respects plundered by an American magician who ...


Robert Harbin

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Robert Harbin was a performer, creator, and major inspiration for all of magic. He was the first magician to appear on television in Britain beginning ...


Sino

Sino

Sino (1921 - 2005) was one of the late big magic stars from Germany. With his "Top Hat Parad" he has performed in many ...


Johnny Ace Palmer

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Johnny Ace Palmer is an award-winning American close-up magician. He is famous within the worldwide magical community for his prodigious sleight-of-hand abilities. Throughout the 1980s, ...


Steve Cohen

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When he is not traveling, Steve Cohen can be found at New York's famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel performing his sold-out public show: 'Chamber Magic.' Cohen recreates ...


John Thompson

John Thompson magic

When John Thompson was 8 years old, he saw a riverboat gambler in a movie and decided he wanted to be a card cheat. His ...


Horace Goldin

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Horace Goldin (1873 – 1939) was a stage magician who was noted for his lightning fast presentation style and who achieved international fame with his ...


Frances Willard and Glenn Falkenstein

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Frances Willard is an American female magician, famous for her performances at The Magic Castle and in Las Vegas. Willard and her husband Glenn Falkenstein ...


Reveen

Reveen on the Merv Griffin show

Peter J. Reveen is a stage hypnotist and illusionist who performs mainly in Canada and particularly Atlantic Canada. Originally from Australia, he came to Canada ...


Fred Kaps

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Fred Kaps was a Dutch magician, famous for being the only magician to become F.I.S.M. Grand Prix world champion three times. Watch Fred Kaps perform the ...


Fred Kaps

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Fred Kaps was a Dutch magician, famous for being the only magician to become F.I.S.M. Grand Prix world champion three times. He was the creator ...


Long Tack Sam

Long Tack Sam Documentary

Long Tack Sam, born in 1885 in Northern China, was a world renowned magician, acrobat, and vaudeville performer. His career brought him to the opening ...


Michael Jackson

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Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, philanthropist and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, ...


Ted Lesley

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Ted Lesley, one of Germany's leading magical entertainers and mentalists, was born in Dueren in the Rheinland area of Germany on 1st August, 1937. A ...


Derren Brown

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Derren Brown is an English magician, mentalist, painter and self-professed skeptic regarding paranormal phenomena. This is the full uncut interview filmed for the Channel 4 TV ...


Ormond McGill

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At a young age, Ormond McGill became interested in magic, and eventually took a correspondence course through the Tarbell Music School in Chicago while still ...


Shade Intro Remix

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Title sequence footage from the 2003 feature film Shade, directed by Damien Nieman and starring Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend ...


James Randi

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James Randi is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Project Alpha involved planting two fake psychics, ...


Doug Henning

Doug Henning on the Muppet Show

Doug Henning was a Canadian magician, illusionist and escape artist. Henning changed the image of the stage magician when he rejected such stereotypical costume accessories ...


Chris Kenner

Chris Kenner performing Three Fly

In his first career as a close-up magician, although now known more as a comedy magician, Chris Kenner was one of those rare individuals who ...