Simon Lovell is an English comedy magician, card shark actor, and con man. His trademark pieces are finding an audience member's card in his mouth and a humorous straitjacket escape. Lovell appeared on VH1's popular reality show Celebracadabra, on which he and other magicians trained celebrities to perform magic for audiences. The author of sixteen books, including Billion Dollar Bunco, which covers cons and scams, Lovell currently stars in a one-man off-Broadway show called Strange and Unusual Hobbies. It has run for over eight years at the SoHo Playhouse in NYC, and the Wall Street Journal complimented it by saying, "A dazzling 70-minute show." The well-reviewed show combines Lovell's off-the-wall sense of humor with demonstrations of his uncanny card cheating and "jaw-dropping" magic. Residing in New York City for the last decade, Simon is a regularly featured performer "Monday Night Magic", the oldest running off-Broadway show featuring an evening of magicians and related performers. 

January 1st, 1957 in Manchester (Age 67)