Roy Horn Dies Of Coronavirus: Siegfried & Roy Performer Was 75
Horn’s publicist said on April 28 that the magician had“Today, the world lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Horn’s longtime performing partner Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement. “From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Sirgfried.”Horn and Fischbacher already were veteran performers before they became the toast of the Vegas Strip for more than a decade.
After Horn recovered, he and Fischbacher’s act became the basis for a short-lived DreamWorks Animation series created by Jeffrey Katzenberg called Narrated by John Goodman, it lasted one season on NBC in 2004-05. David Herman voiced the Horn character. Born on October 3, 1944, in Germany, Horn connected with animals at an early age. He adopted a cheetah named Chico from the Bremen Zoo, and while working as a steward on a cruise ship, he assisted Fischbacher in the latter’s magic act. After the show, Horn asked his future collaborator, “Disappearing rabbits is easy, but can you make a cheetah disappear?”Roy then told him he had smuggled his pet Chico aboard, and the rest is magic and Vegas Strip history.
“Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days,” Fischbacher said. “I give my heartfelt appreciation to the team of doctors, nurses and staff at Mountain View Hospital who worked heroically against this insidious virus that ultimately took Roy’s life.” Siegfried & Roy reunited for a one-off benefit performance in 2009 and last year were featured in a two-hour ABC special called
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