Terry O'Neill

An English actor and martial artist, Terry O'Neill was born in Liverpool in 1948 and began martial arts as a boy. He took the Individual Kumite Kata title at the KUGB National Championships in 1972 to 1975, 1977 and 1978, was three times KUGB Grand Champion, and was part of the Red Triangle Team that were KUGB National Team Champions 13 times from 1967 to 1981. He was in the KUGB International Squad from 1968 to 1982 and captained the British All-Styles Squad to victory over Japan at the 1975 World Championships. He founded the magazine Fighting Arts International in 1972 and ran it until 1997. In 2006 Black Belt ranked him No. 1 in a list of the deadliest fighters. He has acted with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Caine and Sean Connery, appeared on British television in Civvies, The Governor and Above Suspicion, and worked as a martial arts consultant on films.