David Devant

Known as "The Dean of American Magic," Kellar toured the world performing large-scale illusions. Kellar is the first in the Royal Dynasty of Magic. This American dynasty involved the top performer of the time passing "The Mantle of Magic" to a successor; Kellar named Howard Thurston as his. After Thurston passed away, Dante assumed the Mantle (though he was not "officially" named by Thurston). Lee Grabel likewise assumed the Mantle unofficially after Dante's death. In 1994, Grabel passed the Mantle on to Lance Burton in an official ceremony. While Kellar was one of the top performers of the time, many of his famous illusions, including his levitation, were "borrowed" from other performers such as John Nevil Maskelyne.