| Ricky Jay AKA Richard Jay Potash Born: 26-Jun-1946
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Died: 24-Nov-2018
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Magician Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jay's Journal of Anomalies Father: Samuel Potash
Mother: Shirley Katz
Wife: Chrisann Verges (producer, m. 2002, until his death)
TELEVISION
The Unit Agent Kern (2007-09)
Kidnapped Roger Prince (2006-07)
Deadwood Eddie Sawyer (2004)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Brothers Bloom (9-Sep-2008) · Narrator [VOICE]
Redbelt (7-Apr-2008)
The Great Buck Howard (18-Jan-2008) · Gil Bellamy
The Prestige (17-Oct-2006)
Last Days (8-Sep-2005) · Detective
Incident at Loch Ness (14-May-2004)
Heist (10-Sep-2001) · Pincus
Heartbreakers (23-Mar-2001)
Grateful Dawg (14-Oct-2000) · Himself
State and Main (26-Aug-2000) · Jack
Magnolia (8-Dec-1999)
Mystery Men (22-Jul-1999) · Vic Weems
Tomorrow Never Dies (19-Dec-1997) · Henry Gupta
Boogie Nights (8-Oct-1997) · Kurt Longjohn
Hacks (19-Sep-1997) · The Hat
The Spanish Prisoner (8-Sep-1997)
The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (15-Jun-1995) · Hawkes
The Water Engine (24-Aug-1992)
Ring of the Musketeers (1992) · Kerns
Homicide (May-1991)
Things Change (21-Oct-1988) · Mr. Silver
House of Games (11-Oct-1987) · George -- Vegas Man
Official Website:
http://www.rickyjay.com/
Author of books:
Cards as Weapons (1977)
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women: A History of Unique, Eccentric and Amazing Entertainers (1986)
Jay's Journal of Anomalies (2001, compendium)
Dice: Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck (2002)
Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians (2005)
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