Russell H. Almond III was born at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on June 26, 1969. A couple of years later, a doctor happened to find that Russell's hearing loss was caused by three tiny broken bones inside each of his middle ears that does not transmit vibrations caused by sound waves.

His family had moved fifteen times around the United States because his father served as an Air Force pilot flying the large (C-5) cargo aircraft that was built to carry more and heavier cargo than any other plane. Russell said when he was about seven years old, his father took him on a flight simulator of cargo plane at the Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. His father wanted to help Russell visually understand what his father had been doing with his important job to serve as a U.S. Air Force cargo pilot.

Russell had attended six different schools for the deaf in Texas, Missouri, Massachusetts, Delaware, Illinois and Arkansas because his father served at different Air Force bases from time to time. He graduated with a high school degree from the Arkansas School for the Deaf in 1989. He then attended Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, which is enrolled by deaf and hard of hearing students from the U.S. and other countries. He majored the computer system. He graduated with the Associate of Applied Science degree and the special honor of his computer expertise in 1994. He met Alicia Gilmartin, a deaf classmate, at Gallaudet University and later married her in June 2001.

Russell started his interest in magic at the age of 15 years old after watching some international magic shows and David Copperfield's shows on television. He learned magic by himself. In addition, he learned more tricks from a magic dealer at a magic shop at the Busch Garden amusement park in Williamsburg, Virginia and also at Barry's Magic Shop near the White Flint Mall in Rockville, Maryland. He also learned some tricks from magic books.

As an amateur magician, his favorite close-up magic tricks include a pen penetrates through a dollar bill, a drawer box for appearing or disappearing items, a zig zag card that is visibly cut into three pieces and instantly restored, a key through the coin box and a large dice turning to become a small dice.

In the summer of 2019 Russell came to his former Margaret S. Sterck School for the Deaf in Newark, Delaware in order to help celebrating the 50th anniversary of its school opening. There he demonstrated his favorite close-up tricks to his former classmates and other individuals around the hall room. Morton Feldman, a deaf professional magician from Philadelphia, who was also a former school student, saw Russell doing some tricks and came to introduce himself as a deaf magician to Russell. For the first time in his life, Russell admitted that he was completely surprised, highly inspired and thrilled to have met Morton as his first deaf magician- friend in person.

Russell often demonstrates his close-up magic tricks to his family members and relatives at home, and deaf and hearing individuals at public meetings and private parties. Sometimes, he showed a couple of tricks to magic dealers when he visited magic shops.

Besides his magic entertainment, he loves his hobbies by playing with different computer games, and the 9x9-grid Sudoku puzzle and the challenging Samurai Sudoku puzzles attached with five interwoven 9x9 Sudoku grids.

To sum up his biography, Russell H. Almond III states he wants to learn some advanced magic tricks so that he would have some fun doing with them in order to make people enjoy and laugh during his future performance. He considers joining a magic club in his residence area of Fairfax, Virginia soon.

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