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Kuda Bux

Kuda Bux

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Born February 17, 1905 in Princely State of Kashmir

Died February 5, 1981

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Kashmiri magician Kuda Bux (born Khuda Bakhsh) was famously known as "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes". Heavily blindfolded by wads of cotton or gauze over freshly kneaded white flour dough covering his eye sockets, he would read words written by spectators on a blackboard. Alternatively, he would accurately duplicate drawings or precisely trace over text, even if written in a foreign language. Other feats included being buried alive for sixteen days, walking along a ledge 200 metres off the ground while blindfolded, or accurately firing a rifle at a target randomly pinpointed by a member of the audience. In 1945, he bicycled along Broadway and Times Square, again with his head fully swathed in bandages and in the middle of heavy traffic. Dark, with his deep-set, penetrating eyes, Kuda Bux at times resembled Boris Karloff's Dr. Scarabus from The Raven (1963). The career of this softly-spoken, self-styled Hindu mystic began in the mid-1930's, when, billed as 'Professor K. B. Duke', he performed several well-documented fire walks in England and outside Radio City Music Hall in New York. Gleefully marketing his act as a combination of magic and Eastern mysticism, he became the first magician to have his own network television show on CBS in the late 1940's. Though these episodes are now lost to posterity, some of his acts -- as always, while blindfolded -- were said to include 'jumping barefoot onto a narrow, spiked board and catching darts with a ping pong paddle'. He was also featured in the very first TV episode of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!". Ironically, in his final years, Kuda Bux suffered from deteriorating eyesight brought on by glaucoma and ended up legally blind. He died in Hollywood in February 1981 at the age of 76.

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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter Documentary2005Self

Magiskt TV Series1993Magic film clip

The Mike Douglas Show Poster

The Mike Douglas Show TV Series1961Magician

Captain Kangaroo Poster

Captain Kangaroo TV Series1955Self

The Tonight Show Poster

The Tonight Show TV Series1953Self - Kashmiri magician

The Vaudeville Show TV Series1953Self

I've Got a Secret Poster

I've Got a Secret TV Series1952Self - Contestant

The Linkletter Show Poster

The Linkletter Show TV Series1952Self

Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic Poster

Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic TV Series1950Self

They Came by Night Poster

They Came by Night Feature Film1940Ali

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