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Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor. He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and judo. [1] After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do.
Norris was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Chicago, where he was tutored in music composition and performance by Walter Dyett. [2] He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, played in nightclubs , and developed a reputation as a session musician in Hollywood .
Chuck Norris is an American actor and martial artist. He has appeared in a number of action films, such as The Way of the Dragon , in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee , and was The Cannon Group 's leading star in the 1980s.
They have three children, a son and twin daughters. Both twins appeared with their mother in Norris's and his brother Chuck's 1991 film The Hitman. Norris' nephews, through Chuck, are Mike and Eric Norris. On December 2, 2010, Norris, along with brother Chuck, was given the title honorary Texas Ranger by Texas Governor Rick Perry. [46]
Norris was approached to make the film by Lance Hool, who had a script about American POWs in Vietnam. Norris was enthusiastic because he wanted to pay tribute to his brother Wieland. Vietnam films were not popular at the time, and Norris and Hool received numerous rejections. [4] Hool and Norris took the project to Cannon Films, who liked the ...
"Chuck Norris was once bitten by a king cobra; after ten excruciating minutes, the cobra died." — Believed to be the first Chuck Norris "fact", dating from the early 1980s. "They tried to put Chuck Norris's face on Mount Rushmore, but the granite wasn't tough enough for his beard." — Stated by Norris to be his personal favorite "fact".
The Delta Force is a 1986 American action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin (in his final film appearance) as leaders of an elite group of Special Operations Forces personnel based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit.
Urquidez's late brother Reuben was also a competitive martial artist and actor; they appeared together in a 1982 training video, World Of Martial Arts, along with Steve Sanders (karate), Chuck Norris and John Saxon. Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth dedicated the band's hit 1984 song "Jump" to Urquidez, of whom Roth was a student. [19]