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'''Alan Alan''' is a retired British escapologist and magician.  He originated tricks  and he has been honored by [[The Magic Circle]]<ref>Cover [[Genii 2009 July]]</ref>.  
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'''Alan Alan''' (1926-2014) is a retired British escapologist and magician.  He originated tricks  and he has been honored by [[The Magic Circle]]<ref>Cover, [[Genii 2009 July|Genii Magazine, Vol. 72, No. 7, July 2009]], Alan Alan, A Detailed Life, by Noel Britten, page 52</ref>.  
  
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== Biography ==
 
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.<ref>[http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=27181 Pathe News buried alive]</ref> He is credited with devising the burning-rope [[Straitjacket Escape]],  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.<ref>[http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=9 Pathe News burning-rope Straitjacket Escape]</ref> He appeared in a number of television magic shows, including The Magic of David Copperfield. He also "taught" the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs prison how to escape from handcuffs in his performance with a number of other magicians.  In more recent years he was seen on Simon Drake's [[Secret Cabaret]].
 
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.<ref>[http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=27181 Pathe News buried alive]</ref> He is credited with devising the burning-rope [[Straitjacket Escape]],  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.<ref>[http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=9 Pathe News burning-rope Straitjacket Escape]</ref> He appeared in a number of television magic shows, including The Magic of David Copperfield. He also "taught" the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs prison how to escape from handcuffs in his performance with a number of other magicians.  In more recent years he was seen on Simon Drake's [[Secret Cabaret]].
  
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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
 
*  Hung Up Alan Alan  [[Genii 1999 March]] Page 24
 
*  Hung Up Alan Alan  [[Genii 1999 March]] Page 24
 
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*  Alan Alan [[Genii 2009 July]]
 
== Awards ==
 
== Awards ==
 
* 2006 when The Magic Circle's Maskelyne Award for services to British magic.  
 
* 2006 when The Magic Circle's Maskelyne Award for services to British magic.  
  
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* The Linking Ring, Vol. 61, No. 4 April 1981, Memoirs Of A Magician's Ghost, by John Booth, CHAPTER 159 - Thaumaturgical Repositories by the Thames – Alan Alan, page 54
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* The Magic Circular, Vol. 99, No. 1063, February 2005, 29th November 2004, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER – ALAN ALAN, Reviewed by James Fortune, page 66
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* Cover, The Magic Circular, Vol. 101, No. 1188, March 2007, 2006 Maskelyne Award Winner, ALAN ALAN “The Man Who Was Buried Alive”, by Michael Vincent, page 76
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* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/theatre-obituaries/10977900/Alan-Alan.html The Telegraph, Thursday 21 July 2016, Alan Alan
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*http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=44858
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Latest revision as of 13:52, 5 November 2021

Alan Alan

Cover of Genii (2009)
BornAlan Rabinowitz
November 30 1926
Salford, Manchester, UK
DiedJuly 4, 2014 (age 87)
London, UK

Alan Alan (1926-2014) is a retired British escapologist and magician. He originated tricks and he has been honored by The Magic Circle[1].

Biography

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, 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.[3] He appeared in a number of television magic shows, including The Magic of David Copperfield. He also "taught" the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs prison how to escape from handcuffs in his performance with a number of other magicians. In more recent years he was seen on Simon Drake's Secret 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 1990s.

Bibliography

Awards

  • 2006 when The Magic Circle's Maskelyne Award for services to British magic.

References

  1. Cover, Genii Magazine, Vol. 72, No. 7, July 2009, Alan Alan, A Detailed Life, by Noel Britten, page 52
  2. Pathe News buried alive
  3. Pathe News burning-rope Straitjacket Escape
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