Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini was famous because he performed his own stunts and showed his real magic to the world. Also, became very good at what he did because he was in circuses as a young child which added to him being the most famous magician around. Or should I say "The Escape Artist" since he didn't like to be called a magician. He liked to be called this because he could escape.

As a child,he took several jobs, making his public début as a 9-year-old trapeze artist, He was also a champion cross country runner in his youth. Weiss became a professional magician and began calling himself "Harry Houdini"

I believe he was from the area of St-Sauveur, Blois, Loir et Cher, France.

The Robert-Houdin Magic Museum in Blois opposite Blois Castle June 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMghvFyFnEA

Get a life! DOn't you have a brain? o.o

He wasnt, he was born in appleton <------ -this person is wrong. He was born in Budapest, Hungary but said he was born in Appleton so people would think that he was American.

Harry did lots of tricks, but some of his most famous tricks were, making an elephant disappear, and of course the Chinese torture cell. sadly he died doing this trick

"Ladies and Gentlemen...I am not dead"

He was only 4 years of age

Most of them were indeed escape tricks, but he also performed card tricks. In fact, he was known as the "King Of Cards" before he actually performed escape tricks.

He was primarily noted for being an illusionist. He was probably the most famous and well respected illusionist of his era, much like David Copperfield today.

Probably the Water Cell Torture Escape. He was first suspended above a large glass fronted cell filled with water, with his feet locked in stocks. Once he had been lowered into the water, the stocks were bolted to the top of the cell..

Yes on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Orange Drive, across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater

famous tricks included Metamorphosis, Strait Jacket escape, Chinese Water Torture Cell, and Milk Can Escape

Houdini registered for the draft in 1918 and listed his name as "Harry Handcuff Houdini".

Thedore,Gottfried,Leopold,Nathan,Herman, and Gladys

no

he was a very skilled magician, but one day he died with one of his own dangerous tricks.

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Nobody really knows, he died with all his secrets, but there are theories.

Vanishing act

he taught american solders how to escape German locks ans cuffs

Dr.Lyn,an illusionist he saw when he was only 9. The trick Dr.Lyn did he saw was sawing off all of a man's limbs. He put them under a blanket and waved his arms,while saying some long words. A minute later, the man who got his limbs cut off,hopped up with two perfectly good arms and legs!!!

Harry Houdini's idol and inspiration was the French magician Robert Houdin.

A Rabbi named Mayer Sámuel Weisz

In 1908, Houdini introduced his own original invention, the Milk Can escape. In this effect, Houdini would be handcuffed and sealed inside an over-sized milk can filled with water and make his escape behind a curtain. As part of the effect, Houdini would invite members of the audience to hold their breath along with him while he was inside the can. Advertised with dramatic posters that proclaimed "Failure Means A Drowning Death", the escape proved to be a sensation. Houdini soon modified the escape to include the Milk Can being locked inside a wooden chest, being chained or padlocked, and even inside another Milk can. Houdini only performed the Milk Can escape as a regular part of his act for four years, but it remains one of the effects most associated with the escape artist. Houdini's brother, Theodore Hardeen, continued to perform the Milk Can (and the wooden chest variation) into the 1940s. The Milk Can and the Overboard Box are presently housed at the American Museum of Magic.

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