When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini shows his handcuffs as he stands in a wooden box on a boat and prepares to be dumped into East River in New York City on July 7, 1912. During this stunt circa 1912 ...

The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some unexpected twists.

Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson ...

was already a key player in San Diego’s entertainment scene when magician Harry Houdini arrived in 1907. Fresh off his growing fame as “The Handcuff King,” Houdini’s daring feats were ...

Erik Weisz, better known professionally as the great escapologist, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini ... to try and keep him locked up in handcuffs, out of which he would of course ...