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David Straitjacket (born July 1977), is a British escape artist most notable for his television appearances, and world record attempts. Biography and history [ edit ]
The escape was performed in an airplane flown by Zero G Inc. and sponsored by Northrop Grumman. This was the world's first zero gravity straitjacket escape and took 40 seconds to complete. [citation needed] On September 4, 2010, on the Fox News channel show Fox & Friends, Alexanderia the Great set a record for an extreme straitjacket escape ...
He went on to perform a series of stunts for charity, and in 2014 thousands turned out in Bradford city centre to watch him attempt the inverted straitjacket escape. [2] In 2015 he attempted the Buried Alive [3] escape challenge, making him the third person to have attempted the routine in 100 years.
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.
Ferenc Dezső Weisz (March 4, 1876 – June 12, 1945), known as Theodore "Dash" Hardeen, was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brother of Houdini", was the founder of the Magician's Guild.
Cement Tomb Escape – Gunnarson was handcuffed, chained and buried alive under 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 tons of wet cement on 31 October 2008. [ 7 ] Houdini's Milk Can Escape for the Search for Houdini television special on Halloween Night, 1987 – he was a last minute replacement for James Randi , who was injured just before his scheduled live performance.
Roslyn Walker (b. Russel Erwood on 19 March 1981 Brislington, Bristol, England) is an entertainer.He currently resides in Conwy with his partner, dancer Foxee Stole. Walker made his name as an escape artist and stuntman but his work also includes being the official jester of Conwy and under his real name he worked as TV magic consultant for Breaking Magic on Discovery Channel and Tricked! on ...
In 1982, Griffin O'Neal played a junior escapologist named Danny Masters in the film, The Escape Artist. 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.