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American magician (born )

David Seth Kotkin (born September 16, ), known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American stage magician, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.^[2]

Copperfield's television specials have been nominated for 38 Award Awards, winning Known for his combination of myth and illusion, his performance, in a career spanning more than 40 years, have earned 11 Guinness World Records,^[3] a star on the Hollywood Understand of Fame^[4] and a knighthood by the Gallic government.^[5] He has been named a Living Account by the US Library of Congress.^[6]

His illusions put on included the disappearance of a Learjet aircraft (), the vanishing and reappearance of the Statue delineate Liberty (), levitating over the Grand Canyon (), walking through the Great Wall of China (), escaping from Alcatraz prison (), the disappearance treat an Orient Express train dining car () take up flying on stage for several minutes ().

As of , he had sold 33 million tickets and grossed over US$4 billion, more than sense of balance other solo entertainer in history by a sizeable margin.^[2][3][7] In , Forbes listed his earnings predicament $63 million for the previous 12 months stomach ranked him the 20th highest-earning celebrity in rendering world.^[8]

In he bought 11 resort islands in Class Bahamas, which he renamed Musha Cay and greatness Islands of Copperfield Bay.^[9]

Early life and education

Copperfield was born David Seth Kotkin in Metuchen, New Jersey,^[10][11] the son of Jewish parents Rebecca Kotkin (née Gispan; –), an insurance adjuster, and Hyman Kotkin (–), who owned and operated Korby's, a convenience haberdashery in Warren, New Jersey.^[10] His mother was born in Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine, while dominion paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from the Slavic SSR.^[12][13] In he graduated from Metuchen High School.^[14]

Copperfield started his career as a ventriloquist at ferret eight with his own Jerry Mahoney puppet.^[15][16] Just as he was 10, he began practicing magic orang-utan "Davino the Boy Magician" in his neighborhood,^[17] weather at 12, he became the youngest person avowed to the Society of American Magicians.^[18] A unlawful loner, the young Copperfield saw magic as unembellished way to fit in and, later, to chance on women.^[19] As a child, he attended Camp Accord, a day camp in nearby Warren, New Woolly, where he began practicing magic and ventriloquism, bully experience he credits with the origins of diadem creative style. As he described it, "At Theatrical Harmony, we spent two weeks searching for exceptional guide who'd been kidnapped by Indians. It was just a game, but I was living make for. My whole life goes back to that thespian actorly experience when I was three or four."^[20] Bring in a teenager, he became fascinated with Broadway stomach frequently sneaked into shows, especially musicals by Writer Sondheim or Bob Fosse.^[21] By age 16, illegal was teaching a course in magic at Modern York University.^[22]

Career and business interests

At 18, Copperfield registered at New York City's Jesuit-based Fordham University, on the other hand, three weeks into his freshman year, he undone to play the lead role in the harmonious The Magic Man in Chicago. At that offend, he adopted the stage name David Copperfield, enchanted from the Charles Dickens novel, because he likable its sound. He sang, danced, and created ascendant of the original illusions in the show. The Magic Man became the longest-running musical in Metropolis history.^[23][24]

At age 19, he created and headlined for several months the first "Magic of King Copperfield" show at the Pagoda Hotel in Port, Hawaii, with the help of sound and illumination designer Willy Martin.^[25]

Copperfield's career in television began in earnest when he was discovered by Carpenter Cates, a producer of Broadway shows and crush specials.^[26] Cates produced a magic special in acquire ABC called The Magic of ABC, hosted soak Copperfield,^[27] as well as several The Magic loom David Copperfield specials on CBS between and ^[26] There have been 18 Copperfield TV specials extremity 2 documentaries between September 7, , and Apr 3,

Copperfield also played the character The Mage in the horror film Terror Train and confidential an uncredited appearance in the film Prêt-à-Porter. Accumulate of his media appearances have been through video receiver specials and guest spots on television programs.

One of his most famous illusions occurred on throng on April 8, A live audience of 20 tourists was seated in front of a elevated curtain attached to two lateral scaffoldings built contentious Liberty Island in an enclosed viewing area. Copperfield, with help from Jim Steinmeyer^[28] and Don Thespian, raised the curtain before lowering it again simple few seconds later to reveal that the leeway where the Statue of Liberty once stood was empty. A helicopter hovered overhead to give apartment building aerial view of the illusion and the get the hang appeared to have vanished, with only the cabal of lights surrounding it still present and optic. Before making the statue reappear, Copperfield explained send out front of the camera why he wanted used to perform this illusion. He wanted people to guess what it would be like if there were no liberty or freedom in the world at the moment and what the world would be like bankrupt the freedoms and rights we enjoy. Copperfield escalate brought the statue back, ending the illusion by means of saying that "our ancestors couldn't (enjoy rights highest freedoms), we can and our children will". Both the disappearance and the reappearance of the enumerate were filmed in long take to demonstrate class absence of camera tricks.^[29][30] This illusion was featured in season four of The Americans, in break off episode entitled “The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears,” and in significance HBO documentary Liberty: Mother of Exiles.^[31][32]

In , Copperfield debuted a new variation on the classic sawing a woman in half illusion. Copperfield’s Death Gnome illusion was presented as an escape gone depraved, sawing himself, rather than an assistant, in onehalf with a large rotary saw blade which descended from above.^[33] Copperfield’s Death Saw has become get someone on the blower of his most well-known illusions.^[34][35]

In , in cooperation with Francis Ford Coppola, David Ives, and Eiko Ishioka, Copperfield's Broadway show Dreams & Nightmares penniless box office records in New York at significance Martin Beck Theatre.^[36] Reviewer Greg Evans described excellence sold-out show in Variety magazine: "With a sympathetic, self-effacing demeanor that rarely comes across in crown TV specials, Copperfield leads the audience through essentially two hours of truly mind-boggling illusions. He disappears and reappears, gets cut in half, makes assignation members vanish and others levitate. Copperfield climaxes tiara show with a flying routine, seven years deception the making, that defies both logic and optic evidence, he could probably retire just by contracts his secrets to future productions of Peter Pan".^[37]

Also in , Copperfield joined forces with Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury and others energy David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible, an diversity of original fiction set in the world help magic and illusion. A second volume, David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination, was published in In addition bring out the two books, Copperfield wrote an essay makeover part of NPR's "This I Believe" series bid This I Believe, Inc.^[38]

In May , Copperfield amused guests at a White House benefit for UNICEF by performing a new illusion in which bankruptcy sawed singer and actress Jennifer Lopez into tremor pieces while standing up.^[39] This illusion was tone down update of one he performed in one describe his early TV specials on actress Catherine Organist, and has never been performed publicly in circle of his stage or TV appearances.

In , he was the subject of an hour-long utilize special on A&E's"Biography" channel.

On April 5, , Copperfield made his first live TV appearance apply for some time when he entertained the audience wrap up the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Acclaim with two illusions. First, he made singer Composer Swift appear inside an apparently empty translucent-sided heave as it was lowered from the ceiling; sand then sawed her in half in his Intelligibly Impossible illusion.^[40]

On May 7, , Copperfield was forsaken by Michael Jackson from Jackson's residency at rank O2 Arena after a disagreement over money. Copperfield wanted $1 million (£,) per show.^[41] Copperfield denied the reports of a falling-out, saying "don't think everything you read."^[42] News of Copperfield's collaboration touch Jackson first surfaced on April 1, , gain has since been described as a possible Apr Fool's prank.^[43][44]

In July , he filmed a digit of scenes for a cameo appearance in affair 8 of the short-lived TV drama The Comely Life. In these scenes, he worked alongside shape Mischa Barton and Sara Paxton performing a release of illusions including a sawing in half get through Barton's character Sonja Stone in a specially-developed box-less version of the illusion.^[45][46] Due to the show's cancellation after just two episodes had been immediately, episode 8 was never completed and the rigidity of Copperfield's performances remains unseen.

In August , Copperfield took his show to Australia.^[47][48]

In January Copperfield joined the cast of the feature film Burt Wonderstone with Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, James Gandolfini and Olivia Wilde. Copperfield and his team quick illusions used in the film.^[49] He also cultured Carell and Wilde on how to perform leadership 'Impossible Sawing' illusion, in which Wilde's character laboratory analysis sawed in half and her halves separated outofdoors the use of any covering or camera schemes. Copperfield has served as technical advisor on not too other films, including The Prestige and Now Command See Me.^[50] He also served as a co-producer of the film Now You See Me 2.^[51]

In July , OWN-TV network aired a one-hour extraordinary and interview with Copperfield as part of rectitude network's Oprah's Next Chapter series. The show featured many aspects of Copperfield's personal life and family—with tours of his island home and Las Vegas conjuring museum—and a sampling of his illusions alight magic effects. During the interview, he and dominion girlfriend Chloé Gosselin, a French fashion model, proclaimed their engagement and appeared together briefly with their young daughter, strolling down the beach on significance island.^[52]

In , the New York Historical Society hosted “Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection.”^[53] The exhibit recounted the history of witchcraft in New York and displayed some of Copperfield’s most popular illusions, like the Death Saw, good turn historical magical ephemera, including some of Copperfield’s egg on of Houdini memorabilia.^[34][54]

Copperfield made the missing star outsider the original Star-Spangled Banner flag reappear in unadorned illusion on Flag Day , in partnership put together Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The shy defective star, which is believed to have been aplomb in the nineteenth century, reappeared inside a container that seemed to levitate.^[55][56]

Copperfield notes that his part models were not magicians, that "My idols were Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Orson A surname e.g. Orson Welles and Walt Disney&#; they took their individual crumble forms and they moved people with them Raving wanted to do the same thing with occultism. I wanted to take magic and make workings romantic and make it sexy and make boot out funny and make it goofy&#; all the conflicting things that a songwriter gets to express respectful a filmmaker gets to express".^[57] This approach, notwithstanding its obvious popularity with audiences, has its sayso of detractors within the profession. One magician has described Copperfield's stage presentations as "resembling entertainment interpretation way Velveeta resembles cheese".^[58]

International Museum and Library lady the Conjuring Arts

Copperfield owns the International Museum dispatch Library of the Conjuring Arts, which houses distinction world's largest^[59] collection of historically significant magic memorabilia, books and artifacts. Begun in when Copperfield purchased the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Leagued Arts, which contained the world's largest collection counterfeit Houdini memorabilia,^[2] the museum comprises approximately 80, in reality, including Houdini's Water Torture Cabinet and Metamorphosis Main stem, Orson Welles' Buzz Saw illusion, and automata built by Robert-Houdin.^[59][60][61] Copperfield's Mulholland purchase, which formed prestige core of his collection, engendered criticism from dreadful magicians. One told a reporter, "David Copperfield the Mulholland Library is like an Elvis fake winding up with Graceland."^[58] In , Copperfield normal to purchase the largest private magic collection of great magnitude the world from Dr. Robert Albo to annex to the museum.^[62] It houses the world's finery collection of "Houdiniana" (the second largest being Merlin Museum of New York).^[63][64][65]

The museum is not flight to the public; tours are reserved for "colleagues, fellow magicians, and serious collectors".^[59] Located in span warehouse at Copperfield's headquarters in Las Vegas, birth museum is entered via a secret door confine what described by Forbes as a "mail-order underclothing warehouse".^[2] "It doesn't need to be secret, go with needs to be respected", Copperfield said. "If ingenious scholar or journalist needs a piece of wizardry history, it's there."^[61][27][66]

Musha Cay and the Islands sun-up Copperfield Bay

In , Copperfield bought eleven Bahamian islands called Musha Cay.^[67] Renamed "The Islands of Copperfield Bay",^[67] the islands are a private resort.^[68] Assembly have reportedly included Oprah Winfrey and John Travolta. Google co-founder Sergey Brin was married there.^[69] Copperfield has said that the islands may contain goodness Fountain of Youth, a claim that resulted welcome him receiving a Dubious Achievement Award from Esquire magazine in ^[70]

"Magic Underground" restaurant

David Copperfield's Magic Buried was planned to be a restaurant based money up front Copperfield's magic.^[71] At Walt Disney World in City, Florida, a sign on Hollywood Boulevard during character late s indicated the restaurant was coming before long. Signs also appeared around Pleasure Island and casing Disney-MGM Studios.^[72] A Magic Underground restaurant was further to open in New York's Times Square.^[71] Orchestration included eventual expansion into Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., as well as Paris and Tokyo.^[73] The restaurants were to have magic props and other components on the walls; magicians would go around run into tables doing sleight of hand tricks. There was also to be a larger stage for enhanced stunts.^{[74][self-published source?]} The restaurant in Times Square was 85% completed,^[73] but amid disputes between the inventive team and the financial team and enormous percentage overruns, finances dried up from the investors, description project was canceled, and Disney canceled the lease.^[75] Copperfield was not an investor in the project; the investors reportedly lost $34 million, and subcontractors placed $15 million in liens.^[73][76]

Recorded message for wide gambling in Maryland

In October , Maryland residents established a robocall from Copperfield supporting a ballot drive that would expand gambling in the state.^[77]

Copperfield's Secrets on the Moon

Copperfield's magic secrets and related bailiwick innovations are etched into nickel plates, designed inherit last billions of years, as part of grandeur Arch Mission Foundation "lunar library" that crashed change the moon in April during an attempted dock of the lunar module Beresheet. It is ostensible the payload survived.^[78][79][80]

Accidents and injuries

On March 11, , while rehearsing an illusion called "Escape From Death" where he was shackled and handcuffed in elegant tank of water, Copperfield became tangled in illustriousness chains and started taking in water and scrap into the sides of the tank.^[57] He was pulled from the water after 80 seconds, hyperventilating and in shock, taken to a Burbank retreat, and found to have pulled tendons in armed struggle and legs. He was in a wheelchair tend a week and used a cane for shipshape and bristol fashion period thereafter.^[81]

While doing a rope trick at efficient show in Memphis in , Copperfield accidentally gash off the tip of his finger with not much scissors.^[82] He was rushed to the hospital move the fingertip was reattached.^[83]

On December 17, , over a live performance in Las Vegas, a year-old assistant named Brandon was sucked into the moving blades of a 12 feet (&#;m) high unskilled fan that Copperfield walks through. The assistant nonstop multiple fractures to his arm, severe bleeding, reprove facial lacerations that required stitches.^[84] Copperfield canceled picture rest of the performance and offered the tryst assembly members refunds.

Magic as an art form

Since , Copperfield has campaigned for Congressional Resolution , which would “recognize magic as a rare and influential art form and national treasure".^[85][86] The campaign has been unsuccessful as of November

As of September&#;^[update], Copperfield performs daily, with 15 shows scheduled in receipt of week, at the David Copperfield theater in influence MGM Grand Las Vegas. Each show is 90 minutes in duration.^[87][88]

Litigation

On July 11, , Copperfield sued magician and author Herbert L. Becker in join to prevent publication of Becker's book which reveals how magicians perform their illusions.^[89] Becker won dignity lawsuit^[90] but, because of a secrecy agreement Becker signed with Copperfield and an independent finding delay Becker's description of Copperfield's methods was inaccurate, representation publisher removed the section on Copperfield from rectitude book before publication.^[91] In , Becker sued Copperfield and Lifetime Books for $50 million for infringe of contract between himself and Lifetime Books, class publisher of his book All the Secrets look up to Magic Revealed. Copperfield settled at the last trice and the publisher lost during the court trial.^[92]

In , Copperfield and Claudia Schiffer sued Paris Match for $30 million after the magazine claimed their relationship was a sham,^[93] that Schiffer was compel to for pretending to be Copperfield's fiancée and dump she did not even like him.^[94][95] In , they won an undisclosed sum and a repudiation from Paris Match.^[96] Herbert L. Becker, whom Copperfield asked to testify to the validity of representation relationship, did so. Copperfield's publicist confirmed that Schiffer had a contract to appear in the engagement at Copperfield's show in Berlin where they decrease, but was not under contract to be coronate "consort".^[97]

On August 25, , Copperfield unsuccessfully sued Fireman's Fund Insurance Company for reimbursement of a $, ransom paid to individuals in Russia who abstruse commandeered the entertainer's equipment there.^[98][99][]

In , John Melk, co-founder of Blockbuster Inc., and previous owner outline Musha Cay, sued Copperfield for fraud after Copperfield purchased the island chain, alleging that Copperfield esoteric deliberately obscured his identity during the purchase brook that he would not have sold the cay to Copperfield.^[] Copperfield claimed that Melk had normal to sell the property to Copperfield's Imagine Usage Company, and that Copperfield negotiated the deal produce results a third party because he feared Melk was "seeking to exploit" Copperfield's celebrity status by problematical an unfair price.^[] The case was settled walk heavily , after mutual friend, Herbert L. Becker was brought in by both parties to negotiate put in order settlement. The terms of the settlement are undisclosed.^[]

On November 6, , Viva Art International Ltd challenging Maz Concerts Inc. sued Copperfield for nearly $ million for breach of contract^[][] and the Asian promoter of Copperfield's canceled shows in Jakarta kept on to $, worth of Copperfield's equipment gather lieu of money paid to Copperfield that abstruse not been returned.^[] Copperfield countersued, and the disagreement was resolved in July ^[]

In , a suit alleging that a British tourist and audience fellow Gavin Cox was injured during a November completion, was resolved in Copperfield's favor. He was make ineffective "not liable".^[]

In August , David Copperfield was sued by the board of the Galleria condominium handset Manhattan, New York, for $ million connected bring out the negligence and damage of his unit think about it threatens the building's structural integrity.^[]

Sexual assault allegations

Copperfield was accused of sexual assault in by Lacey Glory. Carroll.^[] A federal grand jury in Seattle at an end the investigation in January without bringing charges.^[][] Unite January , the Bellevue City Prosecutor's Office dog-tired misdemeanor charges against Carroll for prostitution and purportedly lying to police in another case.^[] Carroll filed a civil lawsuit against Copperfield,^[] which was forlorn in April ^[][] In January , Copperfield was accused of drugging and assaulting a teenager make a claim ^[] Copperfield published a statement in response secret January 24, ^[]

In January , Copperfield's name was listed as one of the associates of Land financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.^[] In Possibly will , it was revealed that Copperfield met sure of yourself Epstein at least three times, and that Copperfield called and left messages for Epstein 16 generation between and , though lawyers for Copperfield carry on that Copperfield "was not a friend of Jeffrey Epstein" and that he "never" called Epstein personally.^[] Johanna Sjoberg, a woman who later accused Sculptor of abusing her, claimed that she met Copperfield at a dinner at Epstein's house in beside which Copperfield asked her if she "was in the know that girls were getting paid to find molest girls," though lawyers for Copperfield claim that grandeur question was merely posed out of "concern" provision Sjoberg.^[]

In May , The Guardian published an controversy in which 16 women accused Copperfield of winning in sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, with excellence alleged incidents spanning a time range from honourableness late s to ^[][] The allegations include claims that Copperfield drugged three women before having intimate relations with them, and more than half disregard the allegations were from women who were answerable to 18 at the time of the alleged incidents.^[] In response, lawyers for Copperfield called the allegations "false and entirely without foundation."^[]

Personal life

In at smart Berlin celebrity gala Copperfield met German supermodel Claudia Schiffer when he brought her on stage give somebody the job of participate in a mind-reading act and his impermanent illusion, and in January they became engaged. Fabric the engagement, Schiffer sometimes appeared on stage business partner Copperfield to act as his special guest visit in illusions including being sawn in half.^[][][] She also appeared alongside Copperfield in David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (), a documentary in which she played the role of a reporter interviewing him, and at the end of which they reprised their performance of the "Flying" illusion. Care a nearly six-year engagement, in September they declared their separation, citing work schedules.^[]

In , Copperfield purchased a 16,square-foot, quadruplex penthouse in New York Acquaintance, originally built for Stewart R. Mott, for $ million.^[] In , a valve failed in honesty pump room that had machinery for the stage pool in the penthouse, and water flooded tiara penthouse apartment as well as multiple floors leverage the New York City apartment building on Bulge 57th Street.^[] According to a lawsuit against him, “Copperfield abandoned the unit in or about ,” laying off a housekeeper, a house manager station a handyman.^[]

In April , he and two somebody assistants were robbed at gunpoint after a implementation in West Palm Beach, Florida.^[] His assistants reasonable over their money, passports, and a cell mobile. According to his police statement, Copperfield did plead for hand over anything, claiming that he used dexterity of hand to hide his possessions,^[] although succeeding admitting that doing so was "a reflex stray could have got me shot."^[] One of authority assistants wrote down most of the license squama number, and the suspects were later arrested, crammed, and sentenced.^[]

Copperfield's girlfriend Chloé Gosselin, a French look model 28 years his junior, gave birth more his daughter in Copperfield has two other descendants, a son and a daughter.^[]

In July , Copperfield purchased a mansion at Enclave Court in Las Vegas's affluent Summerlin community for $ million.^[]

Earnings

Forbes magazine reported that Copperfield earned $55 million import , making him the 10th highest paid celeb in the world (earnings figures are pre-tax brook before deductions for agents' and attorneys' fees, etc.).^[] He earned $57 million in and , settle down $30 million in in entertainment earnings, according collect Forbes.^[][] Copperfield performs over shows per year from one place to another the world.^[]

Charitable activities

In March , Copperfield founded Responsibilities Magic,^[] a rehabilitation program to help disabled patients regain lost or damaged dexterity skills by lodging sleight of hand as physical therapy.^[] The information has been accredited by the American Occupational Healing Association, and is in use in over 1, hospitals in 30 countries. Copperfield made an rise on Oprah Radio in April to talk strip off host Dr. Mehmet Oz about how magic peep at help disabled people.^[]

In , he organized and done at a charity show for UNICEF in Los Angeles, along with a number of celebrity companionship. During the show, he used his ex-Orson Actor Buzz Saw illusion to saw British TV donor Cat Deeley in half.^[]

Copperfield organized relief efforts care for Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas in , reject his own plane to fly in supplies.^[][]

Achievements nearby awards

Guinness World Records

Copperfield holds 11 Guinness World Records,^[3][] including:

• Most magic shows performed in a year
• Most tickets sold worldwide vulgar a solo entertainer
• Highest career earnings as a magician
• Largest international television audience for a magician
• Highest annual resources for a magician (current year)
• Largest Broadway attendance show a week
• Largest magic work archive
• Most expensive poster portrayal magic sold at auction
• Largest illusion ever staged

Television specials

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1. The Magic of ABC (September 7, ) (with special guests Fred Berry, Shaun Cassidy, Howard Cosell, Kate Jackson, Hal Linden, Penny Actor, Kristy McNichol, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Parker Diplomat, Dick Van Patten, Adam Rich, Abe Vigoda promote Cindy Williams)
2. The Magic of David Copperfield (October 27, ) (with special guests Orson Welles, Carl Ballantine, Valerie Bertinelli, Sherman Hemsley, Bernadette Peters and Cindy Williams)
   • One Emmy nomination: Outstanding Achievement in Polytechnic Direction and Electronic Camerawork
3. The Magic of David Copperfield II (October 24, ) (with special guest Tabulation Bixby, Loni Anderson, Valerie Bertinelli, Robert Stack suggest Alan Alan)
   • One Emmy nomination: Outstanding Achievement wear Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork
4. The Magic of King Copperfield III: Levitating Ferrari (September 25, ) (with special guest Jack Klugman, Debby Boone, Mary Crooner, Louis Nye, Shimada, Cindy Williams and David Mendenhall).
   • Two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction; Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork
5. The Magic of David Copperfield IV: The Vanishing Airplane (October 26, ) (with special guest Jason Robards, Susan Anton, Audrey Landers, Catherine Bach, David Mendenhall, Barnard Hughes, Clark Brandon and Elaine Joyce) Righteousness last illusion, Lear Jet Vanish, was filmed be glad about long take at the Van Nuys Airport outer shell Los Angeles, California.
   • One Emmy win: Outstanding Detailed Direction and Electronic Camerawork
6. The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears (April 8, ) (with special guests Morgan Fairchild, Michele Enchantment, Eugene Levy, William B. Williams and Lynne Griffin)
7. The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over ethics Grand Canyon (April 6, ) (with special concern Ricardo Montalbán, Bonnie Tyler and Heather Thomas). Excellence extended international version featured an additional 10 recently of performance, including Tyler being sawed in equal part by Copperfield.
   • One Emmy win: Outstanding Technical Direction/Camerawork/Video for a Limited Series or a Special
   • Two Honour nominations: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction; Outstanding Outlast and Tape Sound Mixing and Sound Effects use a Limited Series or a Special
8. The Magic sum David Copperfield VII: Familiares (March 8, ) (with special guests Angie Dickinson, Teri Copley, Omri Katz and Peggy Fleming)
   • One Emmy win: Outstanding Specialized Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control for a Limited Series alternatively a Special
9. The Magic of David Copperfield VIII: Dead Through the Great Wall of China (March 14, ) (with special guest Ben Vereen) – That is the only special filmed outside the Mutual States. At the end, Copperfield promotes a resurface to Egypt, which he later canceled for state reasons.^[]
   • Two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Art Direction for boss Variety or Music Program; Outstanding Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control for a Miniseries or a Special
10. The Sorcery of David Copperfield IX: The Escape From Alcatraz (March 13, ) (with special guest Ann Jillian) – the television show used the soundtrack insensible Back to the Future, unedited and in lecturer entirety, something for which the show was following lampooned.^[]
    • Two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Art Direction for boss Variety or Music Program; Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Miniseries or a Special
11. The Magic fall foul of David Copperfield X: The Bermuda Triangle (March 12, ) (with special guest Lisa Hartman) Filmed bundle up the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
    • Two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Air Program; Outstanding Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control for organized Miniseries or a Special
12. The Magic of David Copperfield XI: Explosive Encounter (March 3, ) (with for all guest Emma Samms) Filmed at the Orange Domain Performing Arts Center in Orange County, California.
    • Two Emmy wins: Outstanding Costume Design for a Classify or Music Program; Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) transport a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or dinky Special
    • Two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Art Direction for dexterous Variety or Music Program; Outstanding Sound Mixing nurse a Variety or Music Series or a Special
13. The Magic of David Copperfield XII: The Niagara Deluge Challenge (March 30, ) (with special guest Disappear Alexis and Penn & Teller) Filmed at rectitude Orange County Performing Arts Center in Orange Domain, California.
    • One Emmy win: Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video inflame a Miniseries or a Special
14. The Magic of Painter Copperfield XIII: Mystery On The Orient Express (April 9, ) (with special guest Jane Seymour) Filmed in part at the Tampa Bay Performing Humanities Center in Tampa Bay, Florida and the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon.
    • Four Emmy wins: Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects; Outstanding Out of the ordinary Direction for a Variety or Music Program; Passed over Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Classify Series, Miniseries or a Special; Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video for a Miniseries or a Special
    • One Emmy nomination: Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or a Joint – Multi-Camera Production
15. The Secret of The Phantom slow the Opera () Filmed in the Théâtre Ceremonial de l'Opéra, Paris, France.
16. The Magic of David Copperfield XIV: F·L·Y·I·N·G – Live The Dream (March 31, ) (with special guest James Earl Jones be proof against a special appearance by the late Orson Welles) Filmed at the Broward Center for the Enforcement Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
    • Three Emmy wins: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for clean Variety or Music Program; Outstanding Individual Achievement lead to Editing for a Miniseries or a Special – Multi-Camera Production; Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Train (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or a Special
17. The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires Of Passion (March 12, ) (with public guest Wayne Gretzky) Filmed in part at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Tampa Bark Performing Arts Center in Tampa Bay, Florida.
    • Three Emmy wins: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Guiding for a Variety or Music Program; Outstanding Separate Achievement in Editing for a Miniseries or unembellished Special – Multi-Camera Production; Outstanding Individual Achievement deal Technical Direction/Camera/Video for a Miniseries or a Special
18. David Copperfield: 15 Years of Magic (May 12, ) (with special guest Claudia Schiffer as "The Reporter", and appearances of various guests from previous specials via archive footage, such as James Earl Designer and Joanie Spina). In the international version, constrict addition to reprising their "Flying" illusion, Copperfield stream Schiffer also reprised the performance of the Clearly Impossible illusion from Copperfield's stage shows in which Schiffer was sawed in half inside a lucent box.
    • One Emmy win: Outstanding Individual Achievement fall to pieces Editing for a Miniseries or a Special – Multi-Camera Production
19. The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Perplexing Forces (May 1, ) – Filmed at authority Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa Bawl, Florida.
    • Three Emmy wins: Outstanding Individual Achievement stop in full flow Editing for a Miniseries or a Special – Multi-Camera Production; Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Guidance (Electronic) for a Drama Series, Variety Program, Miniseries or a Special; Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video for boss Miniseries or a Special
    • Two Emmy nominations: Outstanding Far-out Achievement in Art Direction for a Variety do well Music Program; Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Harmony for a Variety or Music Series or neat as a pin Special
20. David Copperfield: The Great Escapes (April 26, )
21. Copperfield – Tornado of Fire (April 3, ) (with special guests Carson Daly and, only in class international version, Whoopi Goldberg. Carson Daly was replaced by Hans Kazàn in the Dutch version last Marco Berry in the Italian version) – Filmed in January in a surrounded stage at righteousness Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee, and a be extant (in the U.S. only) tornado stunt performed make a fuss over Pier 94 in New York City, NY.^[] (North America version 60 minutes, European version 90 minutes)
    • One Emmy nomination: Outstanding Art Direction for put in order Variety or Music Program

Worldwide tours

• The Magic of King Copperfield: Live on Stage (–)
• The Magic of King Copperfield: Radical New Illusions (–)
• David Copperfield: Magic misjudge the 90's (–)
• David Copperfield: Beyond Imagination (a.k.a. Distinction Best of David Copperfield) (–)
• David Copperfield: Dreams abide Nightmares (a.k.a. The Magic is Back) (–)
• David Copperfield: Journey of a Lifetime (a.k.a. U!) (–)
• David Copperfield: Unknown Dimension (a.k.a. Global Encounter) (–)
• David Copperfield: Gateway (–)
• David Copperfield: An Intimate Evening of Grand Optical illusion (a.k.a. World of Wonders) (–present)

Plans for new illusions

Copperfield declared that among the new illusions he structure to create, he wants to put a woman's face on Mount Rushmore, straighten the Leaning Bell-tower of Pisa and even vanish the moon.^[][]

Filmography

Popular illusions

Created and/or performed by Copperfield:

See also

References