Ricky Jay
Birthday: 1946-06-26
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Ricky Jay (born Richard Jay Potash) was an actor, magician, cardsharp, and film consultant. Ricky's love and deep study of card tricks and deception gained him worldwide fame and respect, and he was often called in to consult for movies and TV shows where deception was a key element of the story. Ricky was an exceptional close-up magician and playing-card handler, but he also acted in movies such as Boogie Nights, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Magnolia, as well as TV shows like the X-Files, HBO's Deadwood, and David Mamet's The Unit, always playing intense characters who seemed to know everything but only handed out information in riddles and suggestions.
Movies
Magnolia
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...
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Tomorrow Never Dies
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against eac...
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Last Days
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday ...
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Boogie Nights
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic po...
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The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios ...
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Mystery Men
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova...
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House of Games
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into ...
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Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
Sleight of hand magician Ricky Jay blends light comedy and close-up magic to entertain a live audien...
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The Spanish Prisoner
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation...
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Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
Based on Ricky Jay's book of the same title, this TV special was made up of a combination of magic, ...
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The Great Buck Howard
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs o...
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
The life and career of renowned magician and sleight of hand artist Ricky Jay....
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Ricky Jay Plays Poker
This is the companion video to Ricky Jay's selection of poker tunes entitled "Ricky Jay plays poker....
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Heartbreakers
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. M...
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Lost Masterpieces of Pornography
This lost masterpiece of pornography was recently discovered in a woodworking shop of a Beverly Hill...
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The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the imp...
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Homicide
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group ...
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The Automatic Hate
When Davis Green's alluring young cousin Alexis appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that...
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The Prestige
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...
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Redbelt
Martial artist Mike Terry lives by a strict code of no competitions, for he feels that such contests...
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Sink Or Swim
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiratio...
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State and Main
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for show...
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Things Change
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repa...
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The Water Engine
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to ge...
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Heist
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera...
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That Moment: Magnolia Diary
A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through ...
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David Mamet on House of Games
A documentary filmed on location and behind the scenes during the making of David Mamet's 1987 film ...
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Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters and Ricky Jay
A documentary about the life and work of sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay, with appearances by Ricky...
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Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic
In addition to the insight provided by performers who knew Vernon, including Max Maven, Herb Zarrow,...
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Incident at Loch Ness
When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of ...
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Doug Henning's World of Magic
The December 1976 broadcast of Doug Henning’s World of Magic, hosted by Michael Landon...
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David Mamet on 'House of Games'
A documentary that is made up of video footage shot during the making of the film. It includes inter...
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