Actor and producer Ron Marchini (aka Ronald L. Marchini) is an American martial artist who was a champion at Renbukai Karate.
Ron wrote books on karate and renbukai with Leo Fong, a martial artist known for renbukai and Power training in Kung-Fu and karate.
In May 1964, at Takayuki Kubota‘s All-Stars Tournament in Los Angeles, California, Ron fought Chuck Norris, who earned his first martial arts tournament championship by defeating Marchini by a half a point.
Ron Marchini starred or had roles in numerous films, including Murder in the Orient (1974), Slaughter in San Francisco (1974) [Yellow Faced Tiger], Death Machines (1976) (a film he also produced), and a tournament karate documentary titled The New Gladiators (1973), financed by Elvis Presley, Jungle Wolf (1986), Omega Cop (1990), Karate Cop (1991), Karate Raider (1995) and others.
