Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (born 1917)

Carl Ballantine

American magician, comedian and actor (1917–2009)

Carl Ballantine was an American magician, comedian and actor. Billing himself as "The Great Ballantine", "The Amazing Ballantine" or "Ballantine: The World's Greatest Magician", his vaudeville-style comedy routine involved transparent or incompetent stage magic tricks, which…