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In 1983, real-life escape artist Bill Shirk played himself in a film called The Escapist. Yorick, the main character of the comic book Y: The Last Man, is an escape artist. In the 1991 film, The Linguini Incident, Rosanna Arquette plays an aspiring escape artist. The novels Specific Gravity and Ontario Lacus by J. Matthew Neal (2007 and 2008 ...
Escape Artists Productions, LLC, commonly known as Escape Artists, is an independently financed motion picture and television production company with a first look non-exclusive deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment, headed by partners Steve Tisch, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and David Bloomfield.
The Escape Artist is a British drama thriller three-part series [1] starring David Tennant. [2] The series was created and written by David Wolstencroft and directed by Brian Welsh. It premiered on 29 October 2013 at 9 p.m. on BBC One.
Michael Griffin (born April 10, 1961) is an American escape artist, magician and illusionist. He is best known for his $100,000 worldwide challenge to anyone who can keep him prisoner, [ 1 ] as well as being the only person to have survived a public hanging.
While playing a major role in Indianapolis radio during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and early 2000s, Shirk was also making his mark in the escape artist industry. [4]Between 1976 and 1980, Shirk set eight world records, including the fastest time to escape from a strait jacket (4.53 seconds) and worlds fastest jail break.
An escape artist is an expert on escapology, the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps. Escape Artist may also refer to: Escape Artist Records, an independent record label formed in 1997; The Escape Artist, a 1982 American film; The Escape Artist, a 2013 BBC thriller series; Escape Artist (Garland Jeffreys album) (1981)
Dorothy Dietrich (born April 1, 1948 [1]) is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known for performing the bullet catch in her mouth (although Adelaide Herrmann reputedly did this earlier) and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds of feet in the air from a burning rope.
The Escape Artist is a 1982 film starring Griffin O'Neal and Raúl Juliá. It was based on a book by David Wagoner, and was the feature film directorial debut of Caleb Deschanel. It was the final film of Joan Hackett, Desi Arnaz, and Gabriel Dell, and the film debut of Harry Anderson.