[2] At age 16, Brodien worked at Chicago's Riverview Park, performing magic tricks.
[2] Brodien, who had been making semi-regular guest appearances performing magic tricks as himself on Bozo's Circus since 1962,[3] began appearing as a wizard character in an Arabian Nights-inspired costume in 1968 and evolved into Wizzo the Wizard by the early 1970s.
Brodien designed magic trick sets for children through a company called Cadaco Toys.
He occasionally made public appearances in the Chicago area, and a biography, The Magical Life Of Marshall Brodien, was published in 2007.
[8] One of his Wizzo costumes is in the WGN-TV Bozo's Circus exhibit at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.