Channing Pollock

Channing Pollock was an American magician and film actor. Renowned for his elegance and technical precision, he was recognized as one of the most sophisticated and charismatic practitioners of his craft. Pollock was best known for an act in which he elegantly produced doves out of the air, a routine that revolutionized 20th-century magic by replacing bulky props with pure manual dexterity. He was often billed as "the most beautiful man in the world." Pollock's early work as a magician was on the nightclub circuit.