Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New ...

During his life, legendary escape artist and magician Harry Houdini shocked crowds with his stunts and illusions. Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874, moved to the U.S ...

Legendary magician Harry Houdini's final resting place ... The legendary illusionist and escape artist was 52 when he died in 1926. For many years members of the American Society of Magicians ...

Erik Weisz, better known professionally as the great escapologist, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini ... build a container for him to escape from. Houdini soon brought his show ...

Harry Houdini became one of the most famous people in the world thanks to his gifts as an escape artist and a magician. But he also devoted his life to a different kind of mission as well: exposing ...

Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz on March 24 ... Mister Miracle was based on Houdini, as well as on Jim Steranko, a magician and escape artist turned comic book artist whose own career was ...

Harry Houdini remains an endlessly fascinating figure even almost a century after his death. The world-famous magician and ...

Dynamo Is Dead was an ominous name for his new special, but the escape artist will live on after conquering a death-defying stunt even Houdini couldn’t complete. The 40-year-old magician, whose ...

APPLETON (WLUK) -- This week, Appleton is celebrating a local legend. Escape artist, illusionist and magician, Harry Houdini, would have turned 150 years old on Sunday. And although Houdini was ...

An advertisement in the Milwaukee Sentinel promoted Harry Houdini's run of shows at ... Does the world's greatest magician and escape artist belong to Milwaukee or Appleton?

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Harry Houdini’s story is the classic ... and then with his wife. Houdini’s decision to make escape the focus of his act was well-timed, chiming with the public mood for sensational trickery.