Alan Alan
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| Born | Alan Rabinowitz November 1926 London, England |
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| Occupation | escapologist and magician |
Alan Alan (born Alan Rabinowitz, November 1926 – 4 July 2014) was a British escapologist and magician.[1] He originated tricks that have subsequently become familiar features of the repertoire of other performers and he was honoured by The Magic Circle.[2]
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.[2] He is credited with devising the burning-rope straitjacket escape,[3] in which he is suspended upside-down from a crane with a length of thick rope doused 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.[4] He also "taught" the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs prison how to escape from handcuffs in his performance with a number of other magicians.[5] In more recent years he was seen on the Channel 4 TV show The Secret Cabaret with Simon Drake.
He was proprietor of Alan Alan's Magic Spot, a magic shop based on Southampton Row, London until its lease expired in the mid-1990s.
Alan's standing and influence in the world of magic was formally recognised in 2006 when The Magic Circle chose him to receive the coveted Maskelyne award for services to British magic.[2] He died on 4 July 2014.[6]
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