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TV magician Ali Bongo left £550,197 in his will - and a string of legacies to help other performers. Bongo, chief consultant to Paul Daniels's BBC magic show and the inspiration for telly ...

Ali Bongo, 79, is president of The Magic Circle, the international club for professional magicians founded in 1905 and based in a magnificent HQ in London's Euston. Ali, also a consultant for TV ...

Magician Ali Bongo, who made numerous appearances on television, has died aged 79 after suffering a stroke. Bongo - whose real name was William Wallace - also acted as a consultant on programmes ...

His will also left his 700 magic books, to the organisation's library ... Bongo also fronted his own BBC show Ali Bongo's Cartoon Carnival, which ran for nine episodes in 1971 and was the ...

"They have a sense of drama," he said, "and that is the most important part of magic." Despite insisting that he would continue with Ali Bongo "as long as my legs hold out", in his later years he ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ALI BONGO was a British magician who was the inspiration for the television series Jonathan Creek, about a magician who solves crimes.

Magician Ali Bongo has died in hospital at the age of 79. The performer, whose real name was William Wallace, died at St Thomas' Hospital in central London at 9am yesterday, according to a Magic ...

Magician Ali Bongo died in hospital yesterday at the age of 79, after suffering a stroke. Bongo, whose real name was William Wallace, was the president of the Magic Circle and devised tricks for ...

Maidstone-educated Ali Bongo, the magician who was the inspiration for the outlandish Adam Klaus in TV's Jonathan Creek mysteries, has died. Born William Wallace on December 29, 1929, in India ...

CALL Ali Bongo! Strike up “In a Persian Market ... Standing silently but amiably to one side, he would unbolt the magic boxes, hold the ropes, demonstrate the emptiness of beakers and ...

Ali Bongo, 79, is president of The Magic Circle, the international club for professional magicians founded in 1905 and based in a magnificent HQ in London's Euston (see right). Ali, also a ...