However, his big break came in 1899 when he went on a tour to Orpheum vaudeville circuit in the United States of America, where he performed and thrilled his audience to numerous acts of escape.įrom 1900 to 1920, he did many shows in Europe and America performing escape acts, card tricks, illusions and outdoor stunts. Although, Harry Houdini encountered a lot of problems at the beginning of his career as a magician, but his perseverance and the will to achieve greater feats kept him going. It was when he became a professional magician that he named himself “Harry Houdini”, after a French magician who went by the name Jean Eugene Robert-Houdini, after he had read about him in 1890.
As time went by, his expertise extended to escapes from ropes from heights, chains, straitjackets underwater and many others. He started his performance with escaping from handcuffs and as a result, he was referred to as “Harry Handcuff Houdini” in some quarters. He was a Hungarian-born American escape artist, illusionist and stunt performer who was noted in different parts of the world for his breathtaking and spine-chilling acts of escape. Harry Houdini, originally named Erik Weisz by his parents, was born on March 24, 1874.
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