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Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris

Actor · 1940 – 2026 · Ryan, Oklahoma, USA

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (March 10, 1940 – March 19, 2026) was an American martial artist and actor. He was a black belt in Karate, Taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do. Shortly after, in Hollywood, Norris trained celebrities in martial arts. Norris went on to appear in a minor role in The Wrecking Crew (1968). Friend and fellow martial artist Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in The Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen suggested he take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977), which turned a profit. His second lead, Good Guys Wear Black (1978), became a hit, and he soon became a popular action film star. Norris went on to star in a streak of bankable independently made action and martial arts films, with A Force of One (1979), The Octagon (1980), and An Eye for an Eye (1981). This made Norris an international celebrity. He went on to make studio films like Silent Rage (1982) with Columbia, Forced Vengeance (1982) with MGM, and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) with Orion. This led Cannon Films to sign Norris into a multiple film deal, starting with Missing in Action (1984), which proved to be very successful and launched a trilogy. Norris started to work almost exclusively on high-profile action films with Cannon, becoming its leading star during the 1980s. Films with Cannon include Invasion U.S.A (1985), The Delta Force (1986), and Firewalker (1986), among others. Apart from the Cannon films, Norris made Code of Silence (1985), which was received as one of his best films. In the 1990s, he played the title role in the long-running CBS television series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 to 2001. Until 2006, Norris continued taking lead roles in action movies. His last appearance in a major film release was in The Expendables 2 (2012). Throughout his film and TV career, Norris diversified from his regular endeavors. As a writer, he is a New York Times bestselling author of books on martial arts, exercise, philosophy, his conservative politics, Christian western fiction, self-help, and biographies, and he also serves as a columnist for WorldNetDaily. Norris also appeared in several commercials endorsing several products, most notably being one of the main spokespersons for the Total Gym infomercials. In 2005, Norris found new fame on the Internet when Chuck Norris facts became an Internet meme documenting humorous, fictional, and often absurd feats of strength and endurance. Although Norris himself did not produce the "facts", he was hired to endorse many products that incorporated Chuck Norris facts in advertising. The phenomenon resulted in six books, some of them New York Times bestsellers, as well as two video games, and several appearances on talk shows, such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien, in which he read the "facts" or participated in sketches. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chuck Norris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie6.4

    The Expendables 2

    2012 · 7.3K votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie7.4

    The Way of the Dragon

    猛龍過江

    1972 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Delta Force

    1986 · 541 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Game of Death

    死亡遊戲

    1978 · 760 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Code of Silence

    1985 · 273 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Lone Wolf McQuade

    1983 · 439 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie5.9

    Missing in Action

    1984 · 591 votes

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  • Movie5.3

    Firewalker

    1986 · 220 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Silent Rage

    1982 · 192 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Invasion U.S.A.

    1985 · 363 votes

  • Movie3.9

    Agent Recon

    2024 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Sidekicks

    1992 · 204 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Forced Vengeance

    1982 · 80 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Hitman

    1991 · 107 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Forest Warrior

    1996 · 74 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Cutter

    2005 · 70 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Jean-Claude Van Damme, coup sur coup

    Jean-Claude Van Damme: Karate King

    2023 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Twin Sitters

    1994 · 150 votes

  • Movie5.3

    An Eye for an Eye

    1981 · 125 votes

  • Movie4.9

    A Force of One

    1979 · 122 votes

  • Movie7.2

Series18

  • TV6.4
  • TV6.8

    Raw

    1993 · 374 votes

  • TV7.7

    Hawaii Five-0

    2010 · 1.9K votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.1
  • TV7.4

    The Goldbergs

    2013 · 379 votes

  • TV6.4

    The Tony Danza Show

    2004 · 8 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    Walker, Texas Ranger

    1993 · 587 votes

  • TV7.1

    Martial Law

    1998 · 113 votes

  • TV8.3

    WCW Monday Nitro

    1995 · 38 votes

  • TV7.1

    History 101

    2020 · 113 votes

  • TV4.1

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    1996 · 19 votes

  • TV7.2

    Too Young to Die

    2012 · 9 votes

  • TV8.9

    Sons of Thunder

    1999 · 8 votes

  • TV
  • TV10.0

    Liography

    2001 · 1 votes

  • TV6.2