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+ | | birth_name = Stuart Price Cramer | ||
+ | | birth_day = July 16 | ||
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+ | '''Stuart Cramer''' (1911-2003), even though graduated with a law degree from Western Reserve University in 1936, was a professional magician nearly all of his life. | ||
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+ | == Biography == | ||
+ | Cramer returned to Cleveland where he grew up after serving in the Navy in World War II and used it as a base throughout his long performing career. | ||
− | + | He performed on a Cleveland television station in 1947, with a twice-weekly ten-minute live-audience kid show. He created "Professor Nemo," a Saturday morning magical-cowboy character who resided two years at WNBK-TY. He continued in TV into the 1960s. He once did a daily weather report, presenting trick every day, as "Mr. Meriweather" for three years.<ref>Magic, June 2003</ref> | |
− | + | He met the reclusive Cleveland magician [[Karl Germain]] in 1932, and worked in weekly visits with him.<ref> Obit [[Magicol]] No. 148 (August 2003)</ref> | |
+ | == Books == | ||
+ | * [[The Secrets of Karl Germain]] (1962) | ||
+ | * Germain the Wizard and his Legerdemain (1966) | ||
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+ | * http://magicpostcards.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/professor-nemo/ | ||
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Revision as of 22:26, 28 February 2014
Stuart Cramer | |
Born | Stuart Price Cramer July 16 1911 |
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Died | April 15, 2003 (age 91) |
Stuart Cramer (1911-2003), even though graduated with a law degree from Western Reserve University in 1936, was a professional magician nearly all of his life.
Biography
Cramer returned to Cleveland where he grew up after serving in the Navy in World War II and used it as a base throughout his long performing career.
He performed on a Cleveland television station in 1947, with a twice-weekly ten-minute live-audience kid show. He created "Professor Nemo," a Saturday morning magical-cowboy character who resided two years at WNBK-TY. He continued in TV into the 1960s. He once did a daily weather report, presenting trick every day, as "Mr. Meriweather" for three years.[1]
He met the reclusive Cleveland magician Karl Germain in 1932, and worked in weekly visits with him.[2]
Books
- The Secrets of Karl Germain (1962)
- Germain the Wizard and his Legerdemain (1966)