The Pendragons

Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon were a husband-and-wife duo of American illusionists who called their work "physical grand illusion".

[2] Jonathan (born Claude Douglas Yarbrough) was a gymnast, spring board diver, martial arts expert[citation needed] and fencer.

He used his athletic skills in a career as a Hollywood stuntman, performing the back hand springs for John Belushi down the church aisle in The Blues Brothers.

[4] Jonathan and Charlotte's athletic skills allowed the pair to develop a distinctive and graceful take on classic illusions such as levitation.

[7] In 1996, for the finale of the third of NBC's World's Greatest Magic television specials, the duo made 25 show girls vanish and then re-appear in front of a live audience at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For Universal Studios they wrote, directed and starred in a night-time magic spectacular, Cinemystique: Illusions of the Night which played to more than a million people.

Alongside director Norman Jewison, Jonathan co-directed a segment for the movie Bogus starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Every year the school honors five distinguished individuals who have overcome a learning disability while growing up and gone on to accomplish great achievements in their fields.

During a fall at his home in late September 2006, one of the arrows from Jonathan's archery collection pierced his liver, his stomach, and his heart.

[13] On July 8, 2009, Jonathan (as Claude Yarbrough) was arrested at gunpoint for allegedly firing a bullet into the floor of his home during a dispute with his then wife.

[16] On 9 March 2010, Jonathan pleaded no contest to two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon as part of a plea bargain in which other charges were dropped.

[17] After two years he was taken off formal and put on informal probation, and on 19 June 2014 at Orange County Superior Court, both felony charges were reduced to misdemeanors, and then dismissed.

Jonathan began his own solo act in 2010, at first with a new style of mentalism performed as a savant, rather than as a psychic, which he calls Metaphysics.

On September 22, 2012, he married West McDonough, a member of the Glover family who owned the Magic Castle land and building.