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Carl Ballantine (September 27, 1917 – November 3, 2009) was an American magician, comedian and actor. Billing himself as "The Great Ballantine", "The Amazing Ballantine" or "Ballantine: The World's Greatest Magician", his vaudeville -style comedy routine involved transparent or incompetent stage magic tricks, which tended to flop and go ...
Carl Ballantine. Actor: Shirley Temple's Storybook. Part of the motley crew commandeered by Ernest Borgnine on the popular 1960s TV series McHale's Navy (1962), tall, gangly, beady-eyed, bulb-nosed comic actor Carl Ballantine was better known in other ports as the ultimate "magician".
Nov 5, 2009 · Carl Ballantine, the “amazing” comedy magician and character actor who was part of the World War II PT boat crew on the 1960s sitcom “McHale’s Navy,” has died. He was 92.
Carl Ballantine. Actor: Shirley Temple's Storybook. Part of the motley crew commandeered by Ernest Borgnine on the popular 1960s TV series McHale's Navy (1962), tall, gangly, beady-eyed, bulb-nosed comic actor Carl Ballantine was better known in other ports as the ultimate "magician".
Nov 11, 2009 · Nov. 11, 2009. Carl Ballantine, an inveterate quipmeister whose stand-up comedy persona, an incompetent magician known as the Amazing Ballantine or Ballantine the Great, predated and...
Nov 6, 2009 · Carl Ballantine, a wonderfully clever magician and comic actor, has died at age 92. Ballantine was known to 1960s sitcom-watchers as Lester Gruber on McHale’s Navy , which starred...
Nov 5, 2009 · LOS ANGELES — Carl Ballantine, the “amazing” comedy-magician and character actor who was part of the World War II P.T. boat crew on the 1960s sit-com “McHale’s Navy,” has died. He was 92....
Nov 6, 2009 · Carl Ballantine, the “amazing” comedy-magician and character actor who was part of the World War II PT boat crew on the 1960s sitcom “McHale’s Navy,” has died.
Carl Ballantine was born Meyer Kessler in Chicago, IL on September 27, 1917. Most people will remember Carl Ballantine as an actor who appeared in more than 60 movie and television roles. Ballantine's most memorable role was as torpedoman Lester Gruber in the hit television comedy "McHale's Navy".
Nov 5, 2009 · Actor and magician Carl Ballantine died Nov. 3 in Hollywood of natural causes Nov. 3. He was 92. Born Meyer Kessler in Chicago, he started performing magic tricks as a teenager.
