Carl Ballantine, the "amazing" comedy ... He was performing straight magic with poker chips, playing cards and money in an act called the River Gambler in 1940 when he underwent a career reassessment.

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.

Carl Ballantine LOS ANGELES (AP) – 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 … ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...