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- Wayne Dobson was born in 1957 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Family Fortunes (1980), Magiskt (1993) and Another Audience with Freddie Starr (1997). He died on July 7, 2025.
- In 2001, he guested on Trisha, a UK talkshow, offering guidance and advice to would-be conjurors.
- By the mid-1990s, Dobson was forced into semi-retirement, which he attributed to the effects of his multiple sclerosis, a condition he had secretly battled for many years.
- In 1990, he was rewarded with his own early-evening show (A Kind of Magic) which, at that time, was seen as the first real challenge to the UK dominance of fellow magician, Paul Daniels. The programme's subtle humour combined with the youthful exuberance of its star and the able assistance of glamour model, Linda Lusardi, brought an Americanised slickness not seen before on UK magic shows.
- He achieved modest success from the early 1980s via guest spots on television variety shows (eg Euro Quiz, Live from the Piccadilly, Summertime Special, etc.).
- British magician with a nice line in patter and a bent for close-up magic and audience participation.
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