Carl Ballantine News

He was 92. He started his career as a magician and but found more fame as the "Magician who could never do a trick." Billing himself as "Ballantine the Great" or "The Amazing Ballantine," he created a comedy magic act similar to that of British prestidigator Tommy Cooper, where the trick always failed.

Carl Ballantine, a wonderfully clever magician and comic actor, has died at age 92.

Actor Carl Ballantine, whose career spanned vaudeville, television, Vegas and Broadway, died Tuesday at his Hollywood home of natural causes.

Carl Ballantine, the comedy-magician and character actor who was part of the World War II P.T. boat crew on the 1960s sit-com "McHale's Navy," has died.