Ricky Jay (1948–2018)
Autor/a de Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
Sobre l'autor
Ricky Jay was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, New York in 1948. He first performed magic in public at the age of 4. At the age of 7, he appeared on a television show called Time for Pets, plopping a guinea pig into a top hat and appearing to turn it into a chicken. He left home as a teenager mostra'n més and worked at Lake George and at the Electric Circus. He appeared in about 40 movies and television shows including House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, Redbelt, State and Main, Tomorrow Never Dies, Boogie Nights, and Deadwood. In the 1990s, he and Michael Weber founded the consulting firm Deceptive Practices. Their film-industry projects included a wheelchair that made Gary Sinise's Vietnam War-veteran character in Forrest Gump appear to be a double amputee. Jay wrote several books including Cards as Weapons, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, Celebrations of Curious Characters, and Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest German Living. He died on November 24, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Obres de Ricky Jay
Matthias Buchinger: "The Greatest German Living": By Ricky Jay Whose Peregrinations in Search of the "Little Man of… (2014) 37 exemplars
The magic magic book: An inquiry into the venerable history & operation of the oldest trick conjuring volumes,… (1994) 2 exemplars
Ricky Jay Plays Poker 2 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 2 num 2 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies Announcement 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 2 num 1 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 4 num 2 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 1 num 4 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 1 num 3 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 1 num 2 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 2 num 4 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 4 num 3 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 4 num 1 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 2 num 3 1 exemplars
The Ricky Jay Collection 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 3 num 1 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 3 num 2 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 3 num 3 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 3 num 4 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies vol 4 num 4 1 exemplars
Ricky Jay Plays Poker 1 exemplars
Pure Magic 1 exemplars
The Story of DIce. The New Yorker, Dec 11, 2000. 1 exemplars
Jay's Journal of Anomalies Announcement 3 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys [sound recording] (2006) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay [2012 film] (2013) — Himself — 4 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Potash, Richard Jay
- Data de naixement
- 1948
- Data de defunció
- 2018-11-24
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions
- magician
actor - Premis i honors
- The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2017)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 35
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 1,151
- Popularitat
- #22,320
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 11
- ISBN
- 20
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 1