death_date birth_place name birth_date image article_title birth_name
12 june 1945 budapest , austria-hungary theodore hardeen 4 march 1876 theodore hardeen 1905.jpg theodore hardeen
 ferencz dezso weisz
theodore hardeen

theodore -lrb- dash -rrb- hardeen -lrb- born ferencz dezso weisz , march 4 , 1876 -- june 12 , 1945 -rrb- , known simply as hardeen , was a hungarian magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of harry houdini .
hardeen , who usually billed himself as the `` brother of houdini '' , was the founder of the magician 's guild .
hardeen was the first magician to conceive escaping from a submerged straitjacket in full view of the audience , rather than behind a curtain .
