Carl Ballantine, who performed feats of bumbling comic magic on Vaudeville and on television, the movies and in Las Vegas, died Tuesday of natural causes at his Hollywood home. He was 92. By Mike ...

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. Ballantine died in his sleep ...

Legendary actor and comedian Carl Ballantine died at his home in Los Angeles yesterday of natural causes at the age of 92. Billing himself as "Ballantine the Great" or "The Amazing Ballantine," his ...

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. Mr. Ballantine, a Chicago ...

Carl Ballantine 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 ...

Carl Ballantine, a comedian, magician and actor who was in the 1960s TV sitcom “McHale’s Navy,” has died. He was 92. His daughter says he died Nov. 3 in his sleep at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

Actor Carl Ballantine, whose career spanned vaudeville, television, Vegas and Broadway, died Tuesday at his Hollywood home of natural causes. He was 92. Born Meyer Kessler, he started performing magic ...

His daughter says he died Nov. 3 in his sleep at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Ballantine, who was born Meyer Kessler in Chicago, switched from straight magic to comedy in the 1940s. He would ...

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. He added comedy to the ...