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Dunninger was born in New York City.
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Dunninger was born in New York City.
He was one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television He headlined throughout the Keith-Orpheum Circuit, and was much in demand for private entertainment. Dunninger was a debunker of fraudulent mediums.
He claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena.
He wrote the book which exposed the tricks of mediumship. He also exposed how the indian rope trick could be performed by camera trickery.
Dunninger had a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who could prove that he used confederates or "stooges." He often said he could raise that offer to $100,000. Through Scientific American magazine and the Universal Council for Psychic Research, Dunninger made this offer to any medium who could produce by psychic or supernatural means any physical phenomena that he could not reproduce by natural means.
Dunninger appeared on radio starting in 1943.
In 1948, Dunninger and Paul Winchell were featured on Floor Show on National Broadcasting Company television Recorded via kinescope and replayed on WNBQ-television in Chicago, Illinois, the 8:30-9 p.m. Central Time show on Thursdays was the station"s first mid-week program He was featured on television frequently in the 1950s and 60s.
During the 1950s and 1960s his name was used as the basis for two recurring comedic characters, "The Amazing Dillinger" played by Johnny Carson on The Johnny Carson Show in 1955.
And "Gunninger the Mentalist" on a television show hosted by the comedian Soupy Sales. He died of Parkinson"s Disease at his home in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
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He was a good friend to many notables in the magic community including Harry Houdini, Francis Martinka and Tony Slydini.