Servais Le Roy

Servais Le Roy (4 May 1865 – 2 June 1953 ) was a Belgian magician, illusion designer, and businessman. He is known for the act Le Roy, Talma and Bosco and as the inventor of the classic levitation illusion Asrah the Floating Princess.

Le Roy was born in Spa, Belgium. He began his career in Belgium but later moved to London, where he established a supply house for illusions and scenery. Bosco, who was a rotund man, played a buffoon character.

Le Roy later put his own show into storage and accepted a contract from Horace Goldin to front one of several companies that were touring with Goldin's show, featuring the then sensational Sawing a woman in half illusion.

Le Roy fumbled through his final performance and subsequently destroyed all his equipment. He died in 1953 in Keansburg, New Jersey, USA.