Frank Garcia (magician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frank Garcia (magician)

American magician

Date of Birth: 08-May-1927

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jul-1993

Profession: magician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Frank Garcia (May 8, 1927 – July 15, 1993) was a magician and professional gambler.
He was known as "The Man With The Million Dollar Hands." His specialty was gambling scams and cheating. The son of Spanish immigrants, he decided to become a magician after seeing a performance of David "Fu Manchu" Bamberg.As "The Gambling Investigator" he demonstrated and exposed cheating methods at trade shows and to law enforcement organizations throughout the United States and on television shows.
Frank Garcia wrote and lectured about the subject throughout his life.Garcia made "close-up" work his domain.
His repertory of card manipulations, sponge-ball magic, cups and balls, and sleight-of-hand was highly regarded by his peers.Frank was a frequent guest on TV talk shows including The Dick Cavett Show, and David Suskind, sometimes performing magic and sometimes revealing the scams of crooked gamblers such as three card monte players on the streets of New York.