Alfred Borden

Alfred Borden was a magician's assistant, and later a stage magician under the name "The Professor". Although not a great showman, reserved and calculative, he was one of the greatest technical magicians in the world, certainly in London. Throughout the course of the film, Alfred and Freddy Borden would take turns on playing Alfred Borden/The Professor and Bernard Fallon. Borden was very quick and insightful, as he could spot and work out other magicians' tricks with relative ease. His fundamental belief in magic was that the boundaries should constantly be pushed forward, onto new heights.