Dean Gunnarson

World's Greatest
Escape Artist

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PROFILE

Dean’s unique and entertaining style is best described as a cross between Harry Houdini and Evel Knievel. Dean has performed world wide with his blend of comedy, audience participation and heart-stopping, edge of your seat entertainment. Dean has been proclaimed "The World’s Greatest Escape Artist" by winning "The Houdini Award" on the "Magic Stars" television show in Tokyo, Japan. It officially recognized what the world has known for many years, Dean is the "World’s Greatest Escape Artist". Dean received the award from Tony Curtis, who played Houdini in the 1953 movie. The Houdini Award is only one recent highlight in an internationally acclaimed career that has showcased Dean’s talents to millions of people around the world. Dean first captured the attention of an international audience on Halloween night in 1987 when he performed one of the most daring escapes of all time, "Houdini’s Milk Can Escape". The escape was recreated for the live television special "In Search for Houdini". Following the escape, Johnny Carson described the performance to his tonight show audience as "incredible".

Television / Film / Radio

• For the NBC special "Magic In The Magical Kingdom", Dean delighted crowds in Disneyland and across North America with his shark cage escape. The show so impressed the show’s host George Burns that he exclaimed "Now there is a New Houdini, and his name is Dean Gunnarson".
• For the television show "The Spectacular World of Guinness Records" hosted by David Frost, Dean performed his unique "Car Crusher" escape. Viewers from more than 40 countries around the world watched Dean wrestle free from the web of chains, locks, and cuffs as the car plunged into the powerful, bone-shattering jaws of a car crusher.
• One of Dean’s most daring escapes was filmed for a Japanese television special to mark the 500th episode of "Naruhudo! The World". While free falling from an airplane 13,000 feet above the earth, Dean escaped from a straight jacket and two pairs of handcuffs before parachuting to safety with only six seconds to spare.
• On August 30, 1998, Dean does the greatest straight-jacket escape in history for the NBC television special "The World’s Most Dangerous Magic - The Challenge at Hoover Dam". He hangs 726 feet above the Hoover Dam supported only by his toes resting on a trapeze attached to a crane that swings Dean out over the Hoover Dam.
• Most recently on May 2, 1999, Dean does it again in his 2nd NBC television special "The World’s Most Dangerous Magic II - Gator Bait". This time Dean is put in a straight-jacket, chained and hung upside down by is toes from a trapeze, which is then swung out over 130 hungry alligators at Gatorland in Florida.