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Magician. Spouse. Nani Darnell. . (m. 1952) . [2] James Mark Wilson (April 11, 1929 – January 19, 2021), known professionally as Mark Wilson, was an American magician and author. He was widely credited as the first major television magician, and in the process established the viability of illusion shows as a television format. [1]
Release. 1 October 1960. (1960-10-01) –. 26 December 1964. (1964-12-26) The Magic Land of Allakazam was a series of network television shows starring American magician Mark Wilson. [1] It ran from 1960 to 1964 and is credited with establishing the credibility of magic as a television entertainment. [2]
OCLC. 17805952. Dewey Decimal. 793.8 19. LC Class. GV1547.W763 1988. Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic is a book on magic written by magician Mark Wilson. [1][2] The book is a popular reference for magicians and has been in print since its first issue in 1975.
Darnell worked as a dancer and stewardess [4] before marrying magician Mark Wilson in 1952. [5]The role that most defined Darnell's public image was as a magician's assistant in Wilson's television series The Magic Land of Allakazam, which premiered in October 1960 and ran for four years nationally in the United States.
Alan Robert Wakeling (1926–2004) was an American magician and inventor who is known in the magic world for devising classic illusions and routines used by some of the top performers in the business. Some of his most successful work was done in association with leading television magician Mark Wilson. They worked on the television show The ...
Magician's assistant Nani Darnell (bottom) with magician Mark Wilson (center) on The Magic Land of Allakazam in 1960. A magician's assistant is a performer in a magic act who is not billed as the magician or principal name in the act.
Her father was magician Kinjiro Tanaka Kumajo who performed as Aki Kuma and later as Kim Yen Soo. She performed on the Pantages Circuit and was active from 1912 to 1931. [454] [455] Tanaka "Aki" Kuma: 1884 1963 Japanese-American Magician Kinjiro Tanaka Kumajo was one of the longest practicing Illusionists in vaudeville and was active from 1914 ...
This is a list of magicians/illusionists, prestidigitators, mentalists, escapologists, and other practitioners of stage magic. For the list of supernatural magicians, see List of occultists. Magicians are listed by the most common name used in performance. Magicians' actual names, when applicable, follow in parentheses.