Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini

Born: March 24, 1874
Died: October 31, 1926
in Budapest, Hungary (Austria-Hungary)
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American escape artist, magic man, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts.[3] His pseudonym is a reference to his spiritual master, French magician Robert-Houdin (1805–1871).

Movies for Harry Houdini...

The Magic Behind 'd'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical - The Audio Theater Experience'
Title: The Magic Behind 'd'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical - The Audio Theater Experience'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 20, 2020
Type: Movie
A special behind-the-scenes look at the making of the audiobook edition of "d'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical" and how it did its part in helping keep theater and the arts alive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Title: The UnXplained
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 19, 2019
Type: TV
Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features compelling contributions from scientists, historians, witnesses and experiencers—each seeking to shed light on how the seemingly impossible actually can happen.
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Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Title: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Character: Self - Escape Artist (archive footage)
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
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Title: Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: TV
Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.
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An Honest Liar
Title: An Honest Liar
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 18, 2014
Type: Movie
An Honest Liar tells the incredible story of the world-famous magician, escape artist, and world-renowned enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. The film brings to life Randi's intricate investigations that publicly exposed psychics, faith healers, and con-artists with quasi-religious fervor. A master deceiver who came out of the closet at the age of 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, Jose Alvarez, into a sham guru names Carlos.
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Houdini
Title: Houdini
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: Movie
The film takes a look back at the life of the great Houdini, escape-artist and magician extraordinaire. It also looks into his trying to debunk spiritualists and his silent movie career. It also investigates his promise to return in the afterlife if it is at all possible.
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Magic with the Stars
Title: Magic with the Stars
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
Title: Days of Thrills and Laughter
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 21, 1961
Type: Movie
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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The Golden Twenties
Title: The Golden Twenties
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
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Haldane of the Secret Service
Title: Haldane of the Secret Service
Character: Heath Haldane
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Heath Haldane (Houdini) tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage.
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The Man from Beyond
Title: The Man from Beyond
Character: The Man From Beyond
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
The Arctic, 1922. After being buried under the ice for a hundred years, Howard Hillary is thawed and revived. When he meets Felice Strange, he recognizes in her the same woman he once loved deeply. But is it really her?
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Terror Island
Title: Terror Island
Character: Harry Harper
Released: April 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.
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The Grim Game
Title: The Grim Game
Character: Harvey Hanford
Released: October 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
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The Master Mystery
Title: The Master Mystery
Character: Quentin Locke
Released: November 18, 1918
Type: Movie
In this action-packed serial, government agent Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbed wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber.
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Les exploits d'Houdini à Paris; ou, Les merveilleux expoits d'Houdini
Title: Les exploits d'Houdini à Paris; ou, Les merveilleux expoits d'Houdini
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 1909
Type: Movie
Houdini and his wife Bess are walking along the Seine in Paris, when he encounters a melee between a drunkard and the police. In the ensuing confusion, Houdini is arrested and taken to the police station where he is handcuffed, manacles, shackled, straitjacketed and otherwise tied up to a chair. He escapes from all these restraints. The film, originally shot in 1901, and re-shot in 1909, is intended as a way of recording the amazing escapes of Houdini the illusionist.