Steve Baker (illusionist)

During his career from 1967 through the early 1990s Baker appeared on Dick Clark's LIVE Wednesday, Games People Play, and was a star on an HBO special along with Tony Curtis and special guest star Dorothy Dietrich, called The World's Greatest Escapes, and several times on That's Incredible!.

Thousands of people attended the escape along with actress Dawn Wells, and a sheriff who was a direct descendant of Wyatt Earp.

[4][5] In the years that Baker was confined in his room, he started reading "The Art of Escape" about Harry Houdini and it inspired him.

After three years, he recovered from the rheumatic fever and Baker challenged his friends to chain him up so he could practice what he learned from Houdini's books.

In 1971, at a show in Boise, Steve pulled an audience member on stage to assist in one of his tricks.

Shortly after his mother died, Steve was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had a year's worth of treatment.