Copperfield was born David Seth Kotkin in Metuchen, New Jersey, the son of Jewish parents, Rebecca, an insurance adjuster, and Hyman Kotkin, who owned and operated a men's haberdashery in Metuchen called Korby's. Copperfield's mother was born in Jerusalem, while his paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from USSR (present-day Ukraine). In 1974 Copperfield graduated from Metuchen High School.

When Copperfield was 10, he began practicing magic as "Davino the Boy Magician" in his neighborhood,[16] and at the age of 12, became the youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians. Shy and a loner, the young Copperfield saw magic as a way of fitting in and, later, as a way to get girls. Copperfield attended day camp at Camp Harmony in nearby Warren, New Jersey as a child where he began practicing magic and ventriloquy, an experience to which he credits his creative style. "At Camp Harmony, we spent two weeks searching for a guide who’d been kidnapped by Indians. It was just a game, but I was living it...My whole life goes back to that camp experience when I was three or four." As a teenager, Copperfield became fascinated with Broadway and frequently sneaked into shows, especially musicals featuring Stephen Sondheim or Bob Fosse. By age 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University.
In this app you will see his magical videos:
- The Magic of David Copperfield XIII: Mystery On The Orient Express (1991)
- David Copperfield James Bond Magic
- The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires of Passion (1993)
- Leader 'The Magic of David Copperfield XIII'
- David Copperfield - Old Magic
- David Copperfield - Train car vanish.
- David Copperfield Magic - David Copperfield makes ring disappear
- David Copperfield The Bermuda Triangle
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Magic of David Copperfield XVII: Tornado of Fire (2001)
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