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Famous Stunt Performers.

18 PROFILES

18 celebrated stunt performers and coordinators behind cinema's most legendary fights, falls, and chases. The real heroes of action movies.

Harry Houdini

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Harry Houdini

Hungary

Harry Houdini, born Erich Weiss in 1874, perfected the Challenge Act in 1898 and became the escape artist known worldwide. He debunked fraudulent mediums while hoping to contact his dead mother. The magician died of peritonitis in 1926 after a student punched him in the stomach, sparking annual Halloween séances led by his wife Bess.

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1870 1970