- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAnthony Nicol Shiels
- Nickname
- Doc
- Tony Doc Shiels was born in 1938 in Salford, England. He was an actor, known for Brain Hacker (2014), The Loch Ness Monster: Hunting the Truth (2023) and The World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed (1998). He was married to Christine Price. He died on July 11, 2024 in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland.
- SpouseChristine Price(1958 - 2022) (her death, 5 children)
- ParentsThomas ShielsJean
- In 1961, following the resignation of Barbara Hepworth, he was made a member of the committee of the influential Penwith Society of Arts.
- Attended the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London.
- The events he was involved in during the 1970s and 1980s were covered in his own book, Monstrum, and in the 1996 book Owlman and Others by Jon Downes.
- Between 1970 and 1974, he performed as 'Doc Shiels: Wizard of the West' at festivals and fayres in Cornwall, UK. This, presented with the help of friend Vernon Rose and the rest of the Shiels family, was a magic show that incorporated illusions such as the headless woman, the sub-trunk and the buzz-saw.
- Later in life he published more magic books, including The Shiels Effect, Bizarre and The Cantrip Codex.
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