André Kole (born Robert J. Gurtler Jr.; September 30, 1936 – October 17, 2022) was an American magician and inventor of magical effects.
By the time he was 20, now known as André Kole, he was performing his Table of Death trick on the national network television show You Asked for It.
[4] Kole's wife, Alice Jean Gurtler, died at age 38 from brain cancer.
[7] In 1955 he received the annual Al Sharpe Award for Originality in Presentation from the Texas Association of Magicians.
ESP, Faith Healing, Fortune Telling, Hypnosis, UFO's, Astrology, MindReading, Levitation, Published: Harvest House Publisher (c.1984), ISBN 0-89081-579-8 "André Kole with Jerry MacGregor, Mind Games: Exposing today's psychics, frauds and false spiritual phenomena, pub.