#Houdini 1953 driver

Billy McCoy - Carriage Driver (uncredited).

Thomas Martin - Sideshow Spectator / Man in Audience (uncredited).

Mike Mahoney - Bell Captain (uncredited).

Mike Lally - Audience Member (uncredited).

George Huggins - Audience Member (uncredited).Lars Hensen - Audience Member (uncredited).Grace Hayle - Woman Who Screams (uncredited).Sam Harris - Guest at Halloween Magician's Ball (uncredited).Robert Haines - Magician's Assistant (uncredited).Henry Guttman - Master of Ceremonies, Berlin Nightclub (uncredited).Kit Guard - 'Spirit' at Seance (uncredited).Arthur Gould-Porter - Alhambra Manager (uncredited).Joe Gilbert - Restaurant Patron (uncredited).Bill Gentry - Fred's Friend (uncredited).Slim Gaut - Audience Member (uncredited).Maxine Gates - Heavy Blonde Woman (uncredited).Esther Garber - Esther's Girlfriend (uncredited).Curt Furberg - Courtroom Spectator (uncredited).Bess Flowers - Guest at Halloween Magician's Ball (uncredited).Franklyn Farnum - Guest at Halloween Magician's Ball (uncredited).Fred Essler - Officious Man (uncredited).Billy Engle - Audience Member (uncredited).Norma Jean Eckart - Girl in Astor Guillotine Act (uncredited).Helen Dickson - Audience Member (uncredited).Marion Dempsey - Sword Swallower (uncredited).Daniel De Jonghe - Desk Clerk (uncredited).Louise De Carlo - Dance Girl (uncredited).Roy Damron - Restaurant Patron (uncredited).Paul Cristo - Audience Member (uncredited).Steve Carruthers - Audience Member (uncredited).Boyd Cabeen - Audience Member (uncredited).Morgan Brown - German Magistrate (uncredited).Loren Brown - Restaurant Patron (uncredited).

John Breen - Audience Member (uncredited).

Paul Bradley - Audience Member (uncredited).

Billy Bletcher - Italian Basso (uncredited).

Oliver Blake - Coney Island Barker (uncredited).

Mary Bayless - Restaurant Patron (uncredited).

John Barton - Observer at Ice Show (uncredited).

Bobby Barber - Comic Piano Player (uncredited).

Peter Baldwin - Fred (Bess' Escort) (uncredited).

Walter Bacon - Audience Member (uncredited).

John Albright - Audience Member (uncredited).

John Alban - Restaurant Patron (uncredited).

Malcolm Lee Beggs - British Jail Warden.

Stefan Schnabel - German Prosecuting Attorney.

The film also follows his love for his wife Bess Houdini and his most dangerous stunts and stage illusions. Following the death of his mother, he exposes various fraudulent mediums in the spiritualist movement, while always hoping to make contact with her. It details his beginnings as a carnival performer, later as a worker in a safe factory, and finally his international success as a world-renowned escape artist and stage magician.

The film's storyline is a fictionalized account of Houdini's life. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira, and the costume design by Edith Head. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, was written by Philip Yordan, based on the book Houdini by Harold Kellock. Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.