He can be seen training Marines in the RKO short documentary Soldiers of the Sea. An officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close- quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty- hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. īiddle was a graduate of Germany's Heidleberg University. He was a fellow of the American Geographical Society, was renowned as an eccentric gentleman with his fortune allowing him full- time pursuits of theatricals, self- published writing, athletics, and Christianity he also kept alligators as pets. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle I (USMC)http: //en. 1, 1874 Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pennsylvania, USA: Death: Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pennsylvania, USA: Anthony Joseph Drexel.Īnthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
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