Alan Alan was an escapologist famous for his “burning rope routine” and known as “the British Houdini”. He devised his trademark burning-rope act in the early 1950s, when he was just starting out in ...

Famed magician Harry Houdini was one of the 20th century’s biggest celebrities, and remains a global household name to this day. His impossible feats of death-defying escape, otherworldly mystique and ...

ALAN ALAN, who has died aged 87, was an escapologist famous for his “burning rope routine” and known as “the British Houdini”. Alan devised his trademark burning-rope act in the early Fifties, when he ...

This is the horrifying moment magician Criss Angel battles to save the life of America’s Got Talent escapologist Spencer Horsman after an illusion went horribly wrong. Dramatic footage shows Horsman ...

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