Harry Houdini Filmography

Born:: March 24, 1874
Occupation:: Actor, Director
Biography:: Harry Houdini (born Erich Weiss in Budapest) is best known as a legendary magician and escape artist, but early on in his career he appeared in a few silent action-adventure films from the late 1910s through the early '20s. He even produced a few of these films, such as The Man from Beyond (1922)....Read More

Haldane of the Secret Service

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Houdini

Synopsis: Famed escape artist Harry Houdini functions as producer, director and star of Haldane of the Secret Service. After his detective father is murdered by the villains, Heath Haldane (Houdini) dedicates himself to tracking down their scoundrels. Time and again, the bad guys trap Haldane in ropes Read More

1923
The Man from Beyond

Actors: Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly, Frank Montgomery

Synopsis: Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini both produced and starred in The Man From Beyond. Houdini plays a man who has been frozen in an Arctic block of ice for 100 years. Once he's thawed out, Houdini tries to straighten out the lives of the descendants of his old friends and lost loves. The Read More

1922
The Grim Game

Synopsis: Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini stars in the offbeat adventure yarn The Grim Game. Houdini plays Harvey Hanford, a young journalist who is framed for the murder of his uncle. Since it was well-known that no jail cell or pair of handcuffs could hold Houdini, the film has to work overtime in Read More

1919

Movie data provided by

Add this Person to Favorites

Need Help?