Roy Walton (born April 1932 in London) is a card magic expert from England who currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. First interested in magic at the age of eight, Roy Walton is a world-recognized card magician creating hundreds of card effects, including his most famous effect, Card warp. He has mentored numerous Scottish magicians including Jerry Sadowitz, R. Paul Wilson and Peter Duffie.
Many of Walton's pamphlets and other works have been collected in two books on card magic currently published by Lewis Davenport Ltd. of London, and he continues to contribute to several English language magazines on card magic (e.g. Magic magazine and Genii magazine).
Read more about Roy Walton: Published Works
Famous quotes containing the words roy and/or walton:
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the Tennhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.”
—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, final words before dying—as an android he had a built-in life span that expired (1982)
“We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;” and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”
—Izaak Walton (1593–1683)