Kuda Bux

Kuda Bux was born on Feb 17, 1905 in India. Kuda Bux's big-screen debut came with They Came by Night directed by Harry Lachman in 1940, strarring Ali.

Kashmiri magician Kuda Bux (born Khuda Bakhsh) was famously known as "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes". Heavily blindfolded by wads of cotton or gauze over freshly kneaded white flour dough covering his eye sockets, he would read words written by spectators on a blackboard. Alternatively, he would accurately duplicate drawings or precisely trace over text, even if written in a foreign language. Other feats included being buried alive for sixteen days, walking along a ledge 200 metres off the ground while blindfolded, or accurately firing a rifle at a target randomly pinpointed by a member of the audience. In 1945, he bicycled along Broadway and Times Square, again with his head fully swathed in bandages and in the middle of heavy traffic. Dark, with his deep-set, penetrating eyes, Kuda Bux at times resembled