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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 ...
His straitjacket escape was originally performed behind curtains, with him popping out free at the end. Houdini's brother (who was also an escape artist, billing himself as Theodore Hardeen) discovered that audiences were more impressed when the curtains were eliminated so they could watch him struggle to get out. On more than one occasion ...
Yoshie Shiratori (1907–1979), known as the "Showa Era escape artist". In 1983 a novel based on Shiratori's life, Hagoku (literally, Prison Break), was published by Akira Yoshimura and in 1985 the book was converted to a made-for-TV-movie by NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation. 1942 Akita Prison JPN: 1944 Abashiri Prison JPN: 1947
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 was born on March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary, as Erik Weisz. His family immigrated to the United States when he was 4 years old and changed their last name to Weiss.
1990: Escape artist Joseph W. "Amazing Joe" Burrus died on Halloween when the glass 'coffin' he was attempting to escape from collapsed under the weight of wet cement poured on top of it. Burrus died on the 64th anniversary of the death of Harry Houdini, who was Burrus' inspiration for the performance.
This is a list of escapologists, escape artists and magicians who perform escape-related tricks. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Yoshie Shiratori (白鳥 由栄, Shiratori Yoshie, July 31, 1907 – February 24, 1979) [1] was a Japanese national born in Aomori Prefecture.Shiratori is famous for having escaped from prison four different times.