Richard Turner
The world’s most skilled card magician
Gaming experts and gamblers know and respect him as a master Card Mechanic/Manipulator who could take down any old-west casino or wipe out any high-stakes gambler. Richard’s unparalleled skill with a deck of cards has stirred and staggered audiences throughout the world. He has been featured on dozens of worldwide TV specials, Oscar nominated film, documentaries, magazine cover stories, profiled in hard cover publications, newspapers features, and TV commercials. In 2014 and 2017, the American Academy of Magical Arts recognized Richard as the close-up entertainer of the year.
Oct 2017, IFC-Sundance Selects released theatrically and many On Demand platforms “DEALT” a film on the life of the world’s most skilled card magician/card shark, Richard Turner, who just happens to be totally blind, and whose tenacity inspires, which at SXSW and many other film festival screenings were sold out with standing ovations and has multiple times won the top “Audience Choice Awards for Best Feature Documentary Film with raving reviews from New York Times to the L. A. Times.” VARIETY called Turner nothing short of dazzling and from Penn & Teller, Penn said, “Richard fooled us with every single move he did,” and Teller said, DEALT knocked me dead….A great Documentary!”