Val Walker
Magician, Deceased Person
1890 – 1969
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Who was Val Walker?
Valentine Augustus Walker was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham to Joseph Walker. a landscape gardener and his wife Emma, worked as an electrical apparatus maker, later serving in the Royal Navy and was billed as the "Wizard of the Navy". Walker is credited as the designer of the Radium Girl illusion. He is also said to have been the designer of the John Bull Straitjacket, which was created for a challenge to Houdini in 1926. He was married in 1913 to Ethel Dora Harris, the daughter of Thomas Daniel Harris and his wife Emma Ellson.
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