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 Translation for 'Ventriloquist' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a ventriloquist | ventriloquists
atv.
búktalari {k}
ventriloquist
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Translation for 'Ventriloquist' from English to Icelandic

ventriloquist
búktalari {k}atv.
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Usage Examples English
  • Layne grew up in Brooklyn, NY during a time when ventriloquist acts were popular entertainment in theaters and clubs.
  • He was born in Failsworth, near Manchester, Lancashire. At the age of eight he saw a ventriloquist for the first time which gave him the ambition to become a ventriloquist himself.
  • Literary examples of frightening ventriloquist dummies include Gerald Kersh's "The Horrible Dummy" and the story "The Glass Eye" by John Keir Cross.
  • "The Dummy" is episode 98 of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone" starring Cliff Robertson as a ventriloquist.
  • Archie Andrews was a ventriloquist's dummy used by ventriloquist Peter Brough in radio and television shows in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s.

  • "Caesar and Me" is episode 148 of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone" starring Jackie Cooper as a ventriloquist.
  • Yakkity finds a magical talking ventriloquist dummy.
  • Darren Carr is an Australian ventriloquist and comedian.
  • Naranat, who hails from Ernakulam, began his career as a magician. After a meeting with ventriloquist Prahaladacharya in 1987, he chose to pursue a career as ventriloquist.
  • Mark Wade is an American children's ventriloquist. He has performed and lectured internationally on the subject, and was named "Ventriloquist Of The Year" in 1980.

  • He became interested in ventriloquism at the age of ten after buying a penny leaflet on “how to do ventriloquism” in a magic shop and was also inspired listening to Educating Archie, a radio show that featured ventriloquist Peter Brough.
  • Ray Alan (18 September 1930 – 24 May 2010) was an English ventriloquist and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s.
  • In 1945, Nelson asked famed Chicago ventriloquist figure maker Frank Marshall to make him a professional-quality dummy.
  • Steve Hewlett is a ventriloquist from Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
  • Aaron Williams is an American ventriloquist.

  • The Ventriloquist's Dummy is a puppet shaped like a small human which is operated by a ventriloquist performer to focus the audience's attention away from the performer's activities and heighten the illusion that the dummy is speaking.
  • Frank Marshall (born Frank Marzalkiewicz on March 9, 1900; died October 10, 1969) was a professional ventriloquist dummy, marionette and Punch and Judy maker who created many of the most famous ventriloquist dummies used during the United States's vaudeville entertainment era through the Golden Age of Television.
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