The magician Doug Henning died at the age of 52. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
TV magician and escape artist who brought Merlin to Broadway and became known for his groovy mustache and rainbow-colored clothes.
He married Debby Douillard in 1981.
Kerr died on January 13, 2000, aged 87, in Long Beach, California, US.
Quotes
"I don’t put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she’s gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don’t think, ‘That’s a great illusion.’ They think, ‘Doug’s a great magician.’
"Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call ‘illusion magic’ uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven’t yet been discovered.
"I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
"When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
"It’s important to me to create the largest wonder.