- Alan Alan
Alan Alan (Alan Rabinowitz) is a retired British escapologist and magician. [cite web
url = http://www.magictricks.com/bios/whoswhoab.htm
title = Magicians' Biographies
publisher = magictricks.com
accessdate = 2007-07-08] He originated tricks that have subsequently become familiar features of the repertoire of other performers and he has been honoured by the Magic Circle.cite web
url = http://www.themagiccircle.co.uk/main_nav/NewsDetails.php?News_ID=23
title = The Magic Circle Awards Banquet
publisher = The Magic Circle
accessdate = 2007-07-08]Alan achieved fame through a series of stunts staged for the media. He made headline news in 1949 when a "buried alive" stunt, performed for
Pathe News , nearly went wrong. He is credited with devising the burning-rope straight-jacket escape cite news
url=http://www.britishpathe.com/thumb_pf.php?id=9
title=BURNING ROPE ESCAPOLOGIST
publisher=British Pathe Ltd
date=Oct 26, 1959
first=
last=
accessdate = ] , in which he is suspended upside-down from a crane with a length of thick rope dowsed with petrol, once ignited there is a short time to escape before the rope burns through. He appeared in a number of television magic shows, including "The Magic of David Copperfield". [cite web
url = http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/271794
title = The Magic of David Copperfield
publisher = BFI Film ad TV Database
accessdate = 2007-07-08] In more recent years he was seen onSimon Drake 'sSecret Cabaret .He was proprietor of Alan Alan's Magic Spot, a magic shop based on Southampton Row, London until its lease expired in the mid 1990's.
Alan's standing and influence in the world of magic was formally recognised in 2006 when the Magic Circle gave him the coveted Maskelyne award for services to British magic.
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