The Man from Beyond is a 1922 silent film starring Harry Houdini as a man found frozen in arctic ice who is brought back to life, Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American stage what and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts?
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The Man from Beyond The Man from Beyond is a 1922 silent film starring Harry Houdini as a man found frozen in arctic ice who is brought back to life.
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Harry Houdini Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American stage magician and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as "Harry Handcuff Houdini" on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from and hold his breath inside a sealed milk can with water in it.
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S.O.S. Eisberg S.O.S. Eisberg ("S.O.S. Iceberg") is a 1933 German-US drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Roque, and Ernst Udet. Written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf (uncredited in the credits after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 because he was Jewish and a member of the Communist Party of Germany), the film is about an Arctic expedition that goes in search of a party that was lost the previous year. "S.O.S. Eisberg" was filmed on location in Umanak, on the west coast of Greenland, in Iceland, and in the Bernina Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It was filmed simultaneously in German and English, and released by Universal Studios in both Nazi Germany and the United States. The film premiered on 30 August 1933 in Berlin.
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Wilton Taylor Wilton Taylor (1869 – January 24, 1925) was an American stage and silent screen actor. He usually played gruff men of authority like wardens, judges or the police commissioner in Tod Browning's "Outside the Law" (1920). Of some other surviving silent he can be seen in Houdini's "Terror Island" (1920). Prior to entering films he spent some years on the stage and appeared as a police inspector in the original 1912 Broadway production of "Within the Law" starring Jane Cowl. Taylor died in January 1925.
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Éva Szörényi Éva Szörényi (May 26, 1917 – December 1, 2009) was a Kossuth Prize-winning actress of the Hungarian National Theatre. Her acting career started in the early 1930s playing leading roles in over 20 motion pictures, a result of which she quickly became famous and beloved by the Hungarian people. Her voice was also heard frequently on the radio.
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Carleete Carleete was the stage name of Harry Howes, born 8 May 1873, who claimed to be the inventor of the Water Escape trick, also known as the Water Torture Cell, Under Water Escape and Mysterious Cask. This trick was sold to Harry Houdini in 1911. The sale happened during a visit of Houdini to 194 Salt Street, Bradford, England, then the home of Harry Howes.
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The Music Master The Music Master was a theatrical play written by Charles Klein, and produced and directed by David Belasco. The three-act comedy-drama opened at the Belasco Theatre in New York on September 26, 1904. It ran for 124 performances before it was moved to the Bijou Theatre where it ran for another 511 performances over that and the next two seasons (taking summers off), before going on tour. David Warfield originated the title role, Anton Von Barwig, and continued playing it in revivals and on tour for two decades. William Furst composed the play's incidental music.
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Eli Bowen Eli Bowen (October 14, 1844 – May 4, 1924) was an American sideshow performer known as "The Legless Wonder", or "The Legless Acrobat". He was also billed as "The Handsomest Man in Showbiz" and the "Wonder of the Wide, Wide World". His peak weight was 140 lb , his height - 24 in .
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Steve Railsback Stephen Hall "Steve" Railsback (born November 16, 1945) is an American theatre, film, and television actor, born in Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his performances in the films "The Stunt Man" and his portrayal of Charles Manson in the television miniseries "Helter Skelter".
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Carleton Carpenter Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (born July 10, 1926), known professionally as Carleton Carpenter, is an American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist.
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Vaudeville Vaudeville ( ; ] ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A typical vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian".
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John Calvert (magician) Madren Elbern "John" Calvert (August 5, 1911 – September 27, 2013) was an American magician and film actor. He performed on stage (including Broadway) for eight decades both in the United States and worldwide. Siegfried and Roy cited him as an inspiration, and Bess Houdini said that he was second only to Harry Houdini in "play(ing) the part of a magician."
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The Man in the Fog The Man in the Fog (German: Der Mann im Nebel) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Mutz Greenbaum and starring Victor Colani, Rolf Loer and Hans Mierendorff.
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The Escape in the Silent Flucht ins Schweigen (English-language title: "The Escape In The Silent") is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Siegfried Hartmann. It was released in 1966.
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Michu Meszaros Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros (Hungarian: Mészáros Mihály; October 1, 1939 – June 12, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American actor, circus performer/entertainer, and stuntman, who as an American citizen was best remembered as a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and for his role in the NBC sitcom "ALF". He was 2 ft tall. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Meszaros was a television and film actor, and he also appeared opposite pop singer Michael Jackson in a Pepsi commercial and on the "Strange Days" album cover for The Doors. His last appearance was in 2015's "Death to Cupid".
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George A. Billings George A. Billings (November 22, 1870 - April 15, 1934) was an American actor noted for his portrayals of Abraham Lincoln in 1920s films, commencing with the 1924 film "The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln". He was hired for this film, despite a lack of prior acting experience, due to his close likeness to Lincoln.
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Maria Forescu Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 23 November 1943) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Forescu, like other Jews of that period, was barred from her profession. She died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
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Jack Earle Jacob Rheuben Ehrlich (July 3, 1906 – July 18, 1952), professionally credited as Jack Earle, was an American silent film actor and sideshow performer. Due to acromegalic gigantism, Earle was one of the world's tallest humans at the time of his death, standing at 7 ft tall. For 14 years, he traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, then became a salesman. He is referenced in Tom Waits's song "Get Behind The Mule". For some of his life he was claimed to be 8'5" tall
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The Curse of Man The Curse of Man (German: Der Fluch der Menschheit, 1. Teil - Die Tochter der Arbeit ) is a 1920 German film directed by Richard Eichberg and featuring Béla Lugosi.
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Theodore Kosloff Theodore Kosloff (Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Козлов ; Fyodor Mikhailovich Kozlov; January 22, 1882 – November 22, 1956) was a Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer and film and stage actor. He was occasionally credited as Theodor Kosloff.
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Eddie Parker (actor) Eddie Parker (December 12, 1900 – January 20, 1960) was an American stuntman and actor who appeared in many classic films, mostly westerns and horror films. Some of his more famous films and serials include the 1943 ""Batman"" (as Lewis Wilson's stunt double), "The Crimson Ghost", "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (as the Mummy), and "Rear Window" for Alfred Hitchcock as well as many classic Universal horror films. He appeared three times in the early television series, "Tales of the Texas Rangers", and also performed stunts for that program.
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Imprisoned with the Pharaohs "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (called "Under the Pyramids" in draft form, also published as "Entombed with the Pharaohs") is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in February 1924. Commissioned by "Weird Tales" founder and owner J. C. Henneberger, the narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the Great Sphinx of Giza. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the Sphinx.