Darnell Garcia is a former martial arts champion, author, actor and former DEA agent.
He had roles in the martial arts films Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, Blind Rage and Enforcer from Death Row.
Garcia was thrown out of Manual Arts High School, but what possibly saved him was his gymnastic skills.
[2] According to an article in the Los Angeles Sentinel dated January 21, 2016, Bridal Path Films were in negotiation with major studios to make a movie based on his life.
[3] Garcia began training in American Tang Soo Do in 1968 when he enrolled at a Chuck Norris Karate Studio in El Segundo, California.
[6] Garcia appeared on the cover of the February 1973 issue of Black Belt magazine and featured in a 7 page article.
[10] In Enter the Dragon, along with Mike Bissell and fellow Tang Soo Do instructor, Pat Johnson, he was one of the three hoods who come up to harass John Saxon on the golf course.
The film also starred D'Urville Martin, Leo Fong, Tony Ferrer, and Rick Adair and Fred Williamson.
While there he served as a stockade guard, the personal bodyguard to a very senior medical officer and also managed to talk a prisoner out of killing himself.
[22] In the early 1990s, Garcia and fellow agents, John Jackson and Wayne Countryman appeared in court for stealing drugs and money laundering.