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Daily Beast
How Chuck Norris Went So MAGA People Thought He Was an Insurrectionist
Mar 20, 2026After Donald Trump emerged as a candidate in 2016, Norris "wholeheartedly" endorsed him in an op-ed, in which he also warned readers of the "monumental consequences" of "another Clinton ...
Chuck Norris was such a vocal conservative in the years leading up to his death at age 86 on Friday that by January 6, 2021, people easily believed he was a participant in the deadly Capitol riots.
Norris, a six-time undefeated World Professional Middleweight Karate champion and action star of screens both big and small, ultimately made his personal brand synonymous with the MAGA movement.
Chuck Norris wrestling with a military squad member in a scene from the film 'Delta Force 2', 1990.Archive Photos/Getty Images
His “tough guy” image, buoyed by the popular, long-running series Walker, Texas Ranger, made him a recurring internet meme in the early 2000s, when “Chuck Norris facts” became a common joke online. He parlayed the humor into his 2008 endorsement of Mike Huckabee for president. “Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse,” Huckabee says in one ad with the star. “He tells America how it’s gonna be.”
After President Barack Obama’s first term ended, Norris campaigned against his re-election with a PSA, warning that the country “could be lost forever” and that another Obama win would lead to “1,000 years of darkness.”
After Donald Trump emerged as a candidate in 2016, Norris “wholeheartedly” endorsed him in an op-ed, in which he also warned readers of the “monumental consequences” of “another Clinton presidency.”
Then came the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Norris trended on X (formerly Twitter) in 2021 after a viral tweet showed a photo of a man resembling him standing next to a Jan. 6 rioter wearing a Trump 2020 hat. The photo was captioned “Chuck Norris.”
Wrote one user in a now-deleted post, with the photo, “Wait, so are we just not going to mention the fact that Chuck Norris was at the MAGA insurrection?”
The rumor and photo caught enough traction that Norris’s rep told Yahoo Entertainment, “This is not Chuck Norris and is a wannabe lookalike, although Chuck is much more handsome. Chuck remains on his range in Texas, where he has been with his family.”
Chuck Norris/Instagram
Norris also wrote in a post on Instagram at the time, “It has come to my attention that, unfortunately, there was a Chuck Norris lookalike at the DC Capitol riots on January 6th. It wasn’t me, and I wasn’t there.”
As for the riots themselves, Norris shared his thoughts in a blog post at the time.
“My wife, Gena, and I wish to convey our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the Capitol police officer and other lives lost in the U.S. Capitol last week,” he wrote. “Regardless of where you land in your politics, it is profoundly heart-wrenching these Americans died.”
Still, Norris blamed “progressivism” for the chaos, writing, “The truth is, modern progressivism and our politically correct culture have obliterated the true meaning of the First Amendment.”
“We need to go back to our founders’ original intent if we are to move forward and heal the divisions across our land,” he continued. “Censorship and suppressing free speech (whether in the workplace, public schools, or on social media platforms) is un-American and unconstitutional—but so is justifying destructive or violent rebellion on the basis of patriotism, the U.S. Constitution, or America’s founders’ precedent.”
Norris was mum on the Trump administration’s crackdown on anti-ICE protests and the Trump FCC’s threats to TV personalities who are critical of him. He never expressed buyer’s remorse for endorsing Trump in 2016 and wrote columns praising Trump without formally endorsing him in the 2020 and 2024 elections.
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The List
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Chuck Norris' Thoughts On Donald Trump Were Crystal Clear
Mar 20, 2026The late Chuck Norris was an avid Republican and vocal supporter of Donald Trump, even penning positive op-eds about Trump before the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Daily Mail
Chuck Norris' political views that made him Hollywood outsider
Mar 20, 2026Hollywood icon Chuck Norris left the political party favored by his industry to become a hardline conservative who endorsed Republican politicians and went skydiving with President George H.W ...
Hindustan Times
Chuck Norris a Trump supporter? Explaining Delta Force actor's ...
Mar 20, 2026Chuck Norris a Trump supporter? Explaining Delta Force actor's political views Chuck Norris, former martial arts champion and action movie star, has died. He was 86 years old.
MSN
Chuck Norris' death brings back a surprising detail from his ... - MSN
On March 21, Fox News reported that Donald Trump remembered Norris as a "tough cookie" and a "great supporter." The List reported that he had already been involved in Republican politics ...
Times Now
Is Chuck Norris Democrat Or Republican? Viral Video Sparks Curiosity ...
Mar 20, 2026US News Was Chuck Norris Democrat Or Republican? Viral Video Sparks Curiosity Into Actor's Politics After Death Authored by: Yuvraj Tyagi Updated Mar 20, 2026, 20:37 IST A new viral video of Chuck Norris explaining his political journey from Democrat to Republican has reignited discussion over the action star's party affiliation. In the clip, posted to social media in May 2025, Norris says ...
International Business Times UK
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Truth Behind Donald Trump's Friendship With Chuck Norris: POTUS Salutes ...
Mar 20, 2026Donald Trump paid tribute to Chuck Norris after the action star's death at 86, calling him a 'tough cookie' and 'great supporter' in a friendship that began in the 1990s and deepened in 2016.
New York Post
Trump praises 'great supporter' Chuck Norris after legendary movie star ...
Mar 20, 2026President Trump mourned the death of actor Chuck Norris on Friday, telling reporters he was a "tough cookie" and a "great supporter" of his.
USA Today
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'Tough cookie.' Trump responds to Chuck Norris death
Mar 20, 2026This was one supporter President Donald Trump didn't want to fight. The president on Friday, March 20, reacted to the death of Chuck Norris, the martial artist and action movie icon. Norris ...
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...>President Barack Obama wants you to believe that America's Founding Fathers were in error when they gave citizens the right to bear arms.
The Obama administration and even its Mexican counterpart have manipulated public opinion to believe that the cartel drug wars are being fueled largely by American guns. In support of that spin, they are trying to impose a new regulation that requires licensed firearms dealers in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to report to the federal government whenever someone buys from them more than one semiautomatic rifle with certain characteristics.
Obama's Department of Justice essentially is amending the Second Amendment by changing the rules for gun sales in border states. While working under the guise of stopping illegal contraband and fighting drug cartels, the White House in reality is further imposing its gun control agenda on the American public through back-door rule-making. This is just one more example of the feds exceeding their powers and avoiding congressional permission. It is also another showing of complete disregard for the Constitution.
Based upon those illegalities, Wayne LaPierre -- my friend and the CEO of the National Rifle Association -- disclosed on Fox News recently that the NRA filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to issue an injunction barring enforcement of the rule. And with NRA support, the U.S. House has voted to withhold funding for the enforcement of the new regulation.
As LaPierre wrote in his weekly commentary last week, "the cartels run a $40 billion enterprise ... but the (Obama) administration wants the public to believe that it's going to disarm cartels with a form? Who is the president kidding?"
Doesn't Obama know that restricting the right to bear arms primarily ties the hands of good guys while the bad guys purchase them from a host of illegal sources? And what part of "shall not be infringed" in the Second Amendment do the feds not understand?
Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will "vigorously oppose" the NRA lawsuit.
The fact is, as LaPierre points out, that cartels get their machine guns, grenades, missile launchers and tanks from Central America, South America, Russia, China, international black markets and defectors of the Mexican army. State Department cables, released by WikiLeaks, support that fact.
On the one hand, Fox News reported that in 2009-10, more than 20,000 guns recovered in Mexico came from U.S. manufacturers. On the other hand, 75 percent of guns submitted to the U.S. could not be traced to a licensed gun store. But there is one place to which more than 2,000 crime guns could be traced: the federal government.
The winner of the "Largest American Supplier of Guns to Mexico" award is actually the Obama administration, via Operation Fast and Furious -- a botched, foiled and disastrous sting operation by the ATF's Phoenix division to uncover a large network of cartel-linked gunrunners. During 2009-11, through Operation Fast and Furious, the ATF facilitated the sale of 2,020 firearms to suspected smugglers over 15 months!
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, have been researching information on the Fast and Furious program for months. Grassley and Issa recently blew the whistle that to date, "hundreds of these weapons have already been recovered at crime scenes in Mexico." (Your tax dollars hard at work!)
Among the tragic consequences was the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, gunned down in the Arizona desert last December. Two AK-47 semiautomatic rifles found at the scene were traced directly to the Fast and Furious sting.
As far as the Obama administration's culpability goes, The Washington Times reported that Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "noted that Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson told congressional investigators the agency's senior leadership would have preferred to cooperate more with the congressional investigation of the operation, but Justice Department officials directed ATF not to respond and took full control of replying to briefing and document requests from Congress."
To add insult to injury, the ATF recently promoted three key Operation Fast and Furious supervisors, who allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico, to new management jobs in Washington!
The truth is that the Obama administration is involved right now in a monumental cover-up regarding its criminally handing over thousands of firearms to gunrunners and smugglers. And to duck and dodge its responsibility for those illegalities by now coming across as the vanguard of gun control by cracking down on the sale of two guns to an American at one time is preposterous hypocrisy.
Moreover, to unilaterally mandate this new federal rule so close to the Fast and Furious debacle is more than coincidental, especially in light of the fact that the administration tabled the proposed regulation in January because it was "not an emergency." The only thing that has changed is the embarrassing revelation of the ATF disaster.
The Obama administration is trying to not only eliminate our Second Amendment rights but also demonize good, law-abiding American gun dealers and citizens in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It is not only smuggling its guns but also trying to take ours. And I, for one, am not going to sit back and just watch it happen.
God, guns and guts made America. Let's keep all three.
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apr 2010
:{right now, Washington is scheming and scamming to erode and then erase the Second Amendment from our Constitution. And it will accomplish it through the signing of international treaties on gun control, bypassing the normal legislative process in Congress, tightening regulations upon firearm and ammunition manufacturers, using the anti-gun financing of tycoons and ultimately confiscating all firearms under the guise of terrorism patrol and enforcement. Without public debate and cloaked in secrecy, gun control covertly will come upon us like a thief in the night.
One day, we will wake up to discover that the U.S. has signed a global treaty that will prohibit any transfer of firearm ownership, force reductions in the number of firearms privately owned and eventually eradicate the planet of guns for law-abiding citizens. Of course, the criminals still will have their guns illegally. And on that day, if you do not comply with that global treaty, you will be fined and face imprisonment. This is not a fictitious story or false warning. As sure as government health care has been shoved down our throats, so will the barrels of our guns. And left with little defense, we will go as lambs to the slaughter.}:
i believe the political stars are aligning right now for just such a "perfect storm" of domestic disarmament, via the election and work of an anti-gun president, the disarmament passions of the Washington elites and the United Nations, the appointments of gun prohibitionists in the White House and Supreme Court, and the funding of an anti-Second Amendment movement by billionaire progressives, such as George Soros.
As Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, wrote in the American Rifleman in February: "President Obama's political mantra of 'hope and change' has morphed into a very real threat. Obama's deep curtsy to international arms control has given 'hope' to the international gun-ban crowd that they will prevail."This is part one of three articles in which I'll be addressing the evidence -- the smoking gun, if you will -- of the pressing threat to the Second Amendment and our firearm freedoms.
It was no surprise when Barack Obama was elected that the nation was consumed with other domestic issues and had selected a president with one of the most anti-firearm records in American history. During Obama's presidential campaign, the National Rifle Association outlined more than two dozen ways in which Obama had fought against America's Second Amendment firearm freedoms over the years -- so much so that the NRA graded Obama's (and Hillary Clinton's) voting record among other presidential candidates as an F. (Does that give any freedom-loving firearm bearer any hope now that both are part of the same administration?) No wonder an October Gallup Poll revealed that 41 percent of all Americans and 52 percent of gun owners believe that Obama will try eventually to ban the sale of guns. It was also no surprise, therefore, a year ago this month, when President Obama personally promised Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the White House would push to ratify through the U.S. Senate the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, or CIFTA, treaty, which has sat tabled and unapproved by the Senate since 1997.
But then, as quickly as he initiated the debate, the president just as quickly ceased trying to ratify CIFTA in the Senate. Why was that? Cato Institute scholar Ted Galen Carpenter said there was a reason that the treaty was tabled a year ago by Obama. I agree. I believe that reason was Obamacare. He knew he couldn't tackle and force through Congress two incredibly hot and volatile issues at once, at least of this caliber. But now that Obamacare is law, it's no surprise that both CIFTA and a separate U.N. small-arms treaty are experiencing renewed lives. And just as Obamacare was pitched solely under "health care reform," you can bet that a small-arms ban will be pitched under "a fight against global terrorism and drug wars."
Trust me that what sounds like a tool being used against terrorism or illegal arms trading will actually further restrict Americans' right to bear arms. Under the disguise of an effort to combat drug violence, the passage of CIFTA or its equal will clamp down further upon our Second Amendment freedoms. Again, as LaPierre summarized, "The administration is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international trade between nations, but there's no doubt ... that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."
"NRA" might mean "National Rifle Association," but to me, it also means "Never Remove (your) Arms." The fact is the Second Amendment could even save your life.
That was the case this past year for Vern Grant, a 75-year-old Army veteran with Parkinson's disease and diabetes who had just suffered through the death of his wife. Grant was attacked by a burglar in his Carnation, Wash., home. After smashing the windows of Grant's handicap van and scavenging through his medicines, the intruder broke the glass of Grant's back door and entered his home. Grant says the intruder was incoherently screaming.[no corrob www] ...he suspect was airlifted to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and Grant was released from the hospital after his head wounds were treated.
Grateful for his life and the Second Amendment, Grant asked a question to a reporter that we all should answer easily: "You'd do the same if you thought he was going to kill you, wouldn't you?"
Yes, I would, Vern. In fact, by way of fair warning for any would-be burglars at my house, I hope they read the sign on my front porch first, which says, "We don't dial 911 here."
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https://www.csgv.org/whats-so-funny-about-shooting-government-officials/
What’s so Funny About Shooting Government Officials?
When National Rifle Association (NRA) President Charlton Heston hoisted a rifle above his head at the organization s 2000 convention and shouted the words from my cold dead hands, there was no joke about it. He was conveying a serious threat by expressing the organization s belief that the Second Amendment provides individualswith the right to take violent action against our government- 
-when theydeem it has become tyrannical. Since the conservative wing of the Supreme Court gave legal backing to this dangerous Insurrectionist Idea in 2008, there have been a significant number of violent acts by those who fear and hate our government.
The NRA, however, now appears to find its advocacy for insurrectionism humorous. In a bizarre new 
released in late August as part of its Trigger the Vote campaign, a group meeting is being held to discuss what should be done about the government coming to take away people s guns. An old woman in the group, in an expletive-filled tirade reminiscent of Heston, states that if the government wants her gun, they ll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Martial arts expert/celebrity Chuck Norris then busts into the room and tells the participants that , by registering to vote.
The use of Chuck Norris as a voice of reason is curious, to put it mildly. Just last year, Norris told conservative radio/TV host Glenn Beck, I don’t use [guns] for hunting. I’m not a hunter. But the thing is, it’s for protection … If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that. And that’s really what the Second Amendment is all about. Norris even warned in March 2009 that a second American Revolution will happen if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state. Norris clearly buys into the insurrectionist ideology his new ad so casually dismisses.
The Trigger the Vote campaign is a sharp departure from previous NRA rhetoric, and raises questions about the organization s motives. The NRA s embrace of insurrectionism-formalized through its amicus brief in the 2008 D.C. v. Heller case referenced above-has received significant press attention as of late, particularly after armed Americans began to appear at town hall meetings, presidential speeches, and other political events. The NRA might be trying to distance itself from this type of behavior with the Trigger the Vote campaign. It is also undoubtedly attempting to reach out to more moderate swing voters before a critical mid-term election.
Even long-time NRA supporters, however, are beginning to question its wisdom on the subject of guns, democracy and freedom. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has done much to advance the gun lobby s agenda, recently ran ads against Republican Senate candidate and Tea Partier Sharron Angle that strike directly at the Insurrectionist Idea. In one 
, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of Nevada states that Angle s Second Amendment remedies are a clear call for and denounces them as and .
Two weeks after Reid s Over the Line ad ran, the NRA chose not to endorse him in the upcoming election. This prompted some to speculate that the NRA was punishing him for rejecting their extreme ideology. The NRA denied this, however, claiming that its decision had to do with Reid s support of Supreme Court nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
The bottom line, however, is that no matter how hard you try to mask insurrectionist ideology with a public relations campaign, if you put lipstick on a pig, it s still a pig. If the NRA is sincere in its desire to condemn insurrectionism, it should have its legal counsel issue a statement making it clear that the Second Amendment does not provide individuals with the right to shoot government officials when they feel oppressed or sense tyranny.
Until then, when the NRA chooses to joke about this topic, all Americans should ask: What s so funny?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, Norris won many martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline Chun Kuk Do. Norris is a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu jitsu and Judo.[3] Shortly after, in Hollywood, Norris trained celebrities in martial arts. Norris went on to appear in a minor role in the spy film The Wrecking Crew (1969).
Friend and fellow actor Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen who suggested him to take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977) which turned a profit. By his second lead Good Guys Wear Black (1978), Norris was known to be a popular action film star.
Norris would go 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, who would go 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 unto a multiple film deal, starting with Missing in Action (1984) who proved to be very successful and launched a trilogy. Norris started to work almost exclusively on high-profile action film with Cannon, for whom he became their leading star during the 1980s. This included Invasion U.S.A (1985), The Delta Force (1986), Firewalker (1986), etc.
During this time outside of the Cannon films, Norris made Code of Silence (1985) who was received as one of his best films. In the 1990s, he played the title role in the long running television series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 until 2001. In 1997, another long running project started, Norris and model Christie Brinkley have been the main spokespersons for the Total Gym infomercials. Until 2006, Norris continued taking lead roles in action motion pictures some of these included Delta Force 2 (1990),The Hitman (1991), Sidekicks (1992), Forest Warrior (1996), The President's Man and its sequel (2001-2002).Norris made his last film appearance to date in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables 2 (2012).
Norris has written several books on martial arts, exercise, philosophy, politics, Christian religion, western novels, and biography. He was twice a New York Times bestselling author, first with his book on his personal philosophy of positive force and the psychology of self-improvement based on personal anecdotes called The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story (1988). His second New York Times Best Seller, Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America (2008), was about his critique on current issues in the USA.
Originally starting in early 2005 on an internet forum and later on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Chuck Norris facts became an internet meme documenting 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, and the phenomenon resulted in six books (two of them *New York Times* Best Sellers) and two video games.
- 1Early life
- 2Career
- 3Chun Kuk Do
- 4Distinctions, awards, and honors
- 5Personal life
- 6Philanthropy
- 7Filmography
- 8Bibliography
- 9Video games
- 10References
- 11Further reading
- 12External links
Early life
Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma on March 10, 1940[4] to Wilma (née Scarberry) and Ray Norris, who was a World War II Army soldier,[5] a mechanic, bus driver, and truck driver.[6] Norris has stated that he has Irish and Cherokee roots.[5][7][8] Norris was named after Carlos Berry, his father's minister.[5] He has two younger brothers, Wieland and Aaron (a Hollywood producer). When Norris was sixteen, his parents divorced,[9] and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas and then to Torrance, California with his mother and brothers.[7]
Norris has described his childhood as downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and scholastically mediocre.[10] His father, Ray, worked intermittently as an automobile mechanic, and went on alcohol drinking binges that lasted for months at a time. Embarrassed by his father's behavior and the family's financial plight, Norris developed a debilitating introversion that lasted for his entire childhood.[11]
Career
1958 to 1968: United States Air Force and Martial arts breakthrough
He joined the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman (AP) in 1958 and was sent to Osan Air Base, South Korea. It was there that Norris acquired the nickname Chuck and began his training in Tang Soo Do (tangsudo), an interest that led to black belts in that art and the founding of the Chun Kuk Do ("Universal Way") form.[12] When he returned to the United States, he continued to serve as an AP at March Air Force Base in California.
Norris was discharged from the U.S. Air Force in August 1962. Following his military service, Norris applied to be a police officer in Torrance, California. While on the waiting list, Norris opened a martial arts studio. To promote it, Norris did demonstrations and fights in all kinds of events.[13]
Norris started to participate in martial arts competitions. He was defeated in his first two tournaments, dropping decisions to Joe Lewis and Allen Steen. He lost three matches at the International Karate Championships to Tony Tulleners. By 1967 Norris had improved enough that he scored victories over the likes of Vic Moore. On June 3rd, at the 1967 tournament of karate, Norris defeated seven opponents, exchanged his final blows with Skipper Mullins and won the tournament.[14] On June 24th, Norris was declared champion at the S. Henry Cho's All-American Karate Championship at the Madison Square Garden, taking the title from Julio LaSalle and defeating Joe Lewis prior.[15][16][17] During this time, Norris also worked for the Northrop Corporation and opened a chain of karate schools including a storefront school in his then-hometown of Torrance, CA on Hawthorne Boulevard. Norris's official website lists celebrity clients at the schools; among them Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen, Bob Barker, Priscilla Presley, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond.[18]
In early 1968, Norris suffered the tenth and last loss of his career, losing an upset decision to Louis Delgado. On November 24, 1968, he avenged his defeat to Delgado and by doing so won the Professional Middleweight Karate champion title, which he held for six consecutive years.[9] On April 1, it was reported that Norris defended successfully his All-American Karate Championship title at the Karate tournament of champions of North America Sunday against both the heavyweight Hawk D. Frazier and light heavyweight Carlos Farrell winner of the event.[19] Again that year, Norris won for the second time the All-American Karate Championship, it was the last time Norris participated and retired undefeated.[20][21] During that time while competing, Norris met Bruce Lee, who at the time was known for the TV series The Green Hornet, noticed him. They developed a friendship, also a training and working relationship.
In 1969, during the first weekend of August, Norris defended his title as world champion at the International Karate Championship. It included, fifty martial arts artists from all States and half a dozen from abroad who joined for the preliminaries.[22] Norris maintained the title.[23] Norris won Karate's triple crown for the most tournament wins of the year, and the Fighter of the Year award by Black Belt magazine. That year, Norris made his acting debut in the Dean Martin film The Wrecking Crew.
1970-1978: Early roles and breakthrough
In 1972, he acted asBruce Lee's nemesis in the widely acclaimed martial arts movie Way of the Dragon (titled Return of the Dragon in its U.S. distribution). The film grossed HK$5,307,350.50 at the Hong Kong box office, beating previous records set by Lee's own films, The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, making it the highest-grossing film of 1972 in Hong Kong. The film is credited with launching him toward stardom.
In 1973, he had a small role in the comedy The Student Teachers.[24]
In 1974, actor Steve McQueen, who was his martial art student and friend at the time, saw his potential and encouraged him to begin acting classes at MGM. That same year, he played the supporting role of the main antagonist in Lo Wei's Yellow Faced Tiger.[25] Norris plays a powerful drug king in San Francisco, where he dominates the criminal world including the police department. He is eventually challenged by a young police officer who stands up to corruption.[26] The film was released theatrically in the US in 1981 as Slaughter in San Francisco. It was noticed that it was an older low-budget film announcing Norris as the lead. The film played as a double-bill to other action and genre film. It was described, a low budget martial arts actioner taking advantage of Norris' fame.[27][28][29][30][31][32]
In 1975, he wrote his first book Winning Tournament Karate on the practical study of competition training for any rank. It covers all phases of executing speedy attacks, conditioning, fighting form drills, and one-step sparring techniques.[33]
Norris' first starring role was 1977's Breaker! Breaker!, an action trucking film. After turning down offers to do many martial art films, Norris decided that he wanted to do films that had story and where the action would take place when it is emotionally right. The low budget film turned out to be very successful.[34]
In 1978, Norris starred in the thriller, Good Guys Wear Black, that he considers to be his first significant lead role. No studio wanted to release it, so Norris and his producers four-walled it, renting the theaters and taking whatever money came in.[35] The film did very well; shot on a $1 million budget, it made over $18 million at the box office.[36]
1979 to 1983: Action film star
In 1979, Norris starred in A Force of One, where he played Matt Logan, a world karate champion who assists the police in their investigation.[37] The film was developed while touring for Good Guys Wear Black. Again no studio wanted to pick it up, but it out-grossed the previous film by making $20 million at the box office.[35][38]
In 1980, he released The Octagon, where his character must stop a group of terrorists trained in the ninja style.[39] Unlike his previous films this time the studios were interested. American Cinema Releasing distributed it and it made almost $19 million at the box office.[35][40]
In 1981, he starred in Steve Carver's An Eye for an Eye, co-starring Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, and Mako Iwamatsu.
The following year he had the lead in the action horror film Silent Rage (1982) it was his first film released by a major studio Columbia Pictures.[41] In the film Norris is a sheriff who must stop a psychopath who goes on a rampage after being granted near-indestructibility in a medical experiment.
Shortly afterward MGM gave him a three-movie deal, and that same year they released Forced Vengeance (1982). Norris was unhappy with the direction they wanted to take with him, hence the contract was canceled.[35]
In 1983, Norris made Lone Wolf McQuade with Orion Pictures. He played J.J. McQuade, a reckless Texas Ranger who'd rather work alone, but who gets a new partner because his captain would like to have him supervised. The partners investigate an arms dealer played by David Carradine. The film was a worldwide hit and had a positive reception from movie critics, often being compared to Sergio Leone's stylish spaghetti westerns. The film became the inspiration for Norris's future hit TV show Walker, Texas Ranger. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a 3.5 star rating, calling the character of J.J. McQuade worthy of a film series and predicting the character would be a future classic.[42][43][44]
The same year, he also published his second book about general exercising called Toughen Up! the Chuck Norris Fitness System.[45]
Also in 1983, Xonox produced the video game Chuck Norris Superkicks for the Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, Atari 2600, and Colecovision. The game combines two types of gameplay: moving through a map, and fighting against enemies. The player takes control of Chuck Norris who has to liberate a hostage. It was later sold as Kung Fu Superkicks when the license for the use of the name Chuck Norris expired.
1984 to 1988: Mainstream success
In 1984, Norris starred in Missing in Action, the first of a series of POW rescue fantasies themed around the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue that were produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and released under their Cannon Films banner, with which he had signed a multiple movie deal.[46] He plays Colonel James Braddock, a US military officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, which he escaped 10 years ago. After the war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that travels to Ho Chi Minh City to investigate reports of US soldiers still held prisoner. Norris later dedicated these films to his younger brother Wieland, who was a private in the 101st Airborne Division, and had been killed in June 1970 in Vietnam while on patrol in the defense of Firebase Ripcord.[47] The film was a huge success and Norris became Cannon's most prominent star of the 1980s.
In 1985, Cannon Films released Missing in Action 2: The Beginning and Invasion U.S.A. which were extremely successful. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is a prequel to the first installment, where Colonel James Braddock is held in a North Vietnamese POW camp run by sadistic Colonel, who forces the POWs to grow opium for a French drug runner, and tries to get Braddock to admit to and sign a long list of war crimes. During his team's time in captivity, they are relentlessly subjected to various forms of torture. This leads them to attempt escape, and Braddock plots to free his fellow prisoners and destroy the prison camp.
Invasion U.S.A. takes place during the Cold War area. Rostov, a Soviet operative leads a band of Latin American communist guerrillas to invade Florida. The invasion force spreads out into the South and causes havoc by shooting bazookas into suburban homes, inciting race riots by impersonating the police and attacking ethnic events, and planting bombs in churches and on school buses. With terror spreading everywhere, martial law is declared. Norris plays a former CIA agent who has had previous encounters with Rostov, and can take him on.
That same year Orion Pictures released Code of Silence which received positive reviews and was also a box office success.[48][49][50][51] Code of Silence is a crime drama, and features Norris as a streetwise plainclothes officer who takes down a crime czar responsible for officers being wounded in a botched drug raid. It's considered by fans and critics as Chuck Norris's best film to date.
In 1986, he made two films co-starring with Academy Award winners. The first one The Delta Force with Lee Marvin, The Delta Force was a box office success. In the film Norris and Marvin are leaders of an elite squad of Special Forces troopsbased on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit, who face a group of Lebanese terrorists who have hijacked a Boeing 707.
The second release that year was Firewalker with Louis Gossett, Jr. as a co-lead. The American action adventure film co-stars Will Sampson and Melody Anderson. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson.[52] Norris and Gossett play Max Donigan and Leo Porter, two soldiers of fortune, whose adventures rarely result in any notable gain. They are befriended by an inscrutable woman of mystery Patricia (Anderson). Patricia's map leads them on a quest for treasure in Central America. The name of the movie comes from the powerful guardian of the treasure.
That same year he was involved in the production of the Ruby-Spears cartoon Karate Kommandos, which was published as a comic by Marvel Comics.
In 1987, he published the book The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story It is an explanation of his personal philosophy of positive force and the psychology of self-improvement and is interspersed with anecdotes about international karate competitions, training with Bruce Lee, and Norris's acting career. It became a New York Times Best Seller.[53]
In 1988, he made his last two films of the eighties, the first Braddock: Missing in Action III which marks his brother Aaron Norris's directorial debut. Aaron Norris had previously been stunt and/or fight coordinator in the vast majority of his filmography up until that year. Aaron would direct most of his films from that point on. Colonel James Braddock who had believed his Vietnamese wife to be dead since the war ended in 1975, but he hears from a missionary, that she is not only alive, but that she and Braddock have a 12-year-old son. He returns to Vietnam to save them.
On August 28, Norris starred in Hero and the Terror.[54] It co-starred Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran, Jeffrey Kramer, Ron O'Neal, Murphy Dunne, and Billy Drago. The film stars Norris as Danny O'Brien as a cop trying to stop a serial killer, Simon Moon (O'Halloran) known as "The Terror".[55]
1990s: Subsequent success
By 1990, MGM acquired the Cannon Films library, and Norris made the sequel Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection where his character leads his Delta team into the fictional South American country of San Carlos to rescue hostages and stop the flow of cocaine into the United States.
In 1991, he starred in The Hitman, where he plays a cop who's been brutally shot by his crooked partner. He's in a coma for several years and when he wakes up he assumes a new identity and infiltrates a drug-smuggling operation run by the local Mafia.
In 1992, he did Sidekicks, his most successful film of that area. It is about a loner boy, who lives with his widowed father. He has vivid daydreams about being Chuck Norris' sidekick, battling against Norris's movie enemies, who are often personified by his everyday bullies.
In 1993, he began shooting the action series Walker, Texas Ranger. The show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker (Norris), a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation and is about his adventures fighting criminals with his partner James Trivette. It lasted eight seasons on CBS and continued in syndication on other channels, notably the Hallmark Channel.[56] The show was very successful in the ratings throughout its run, ranking among the Top 30 programs from 1995 until 1999, and ranking in the Top 20 in both the 1995–1996 and 1998–1999 seasons.
Also in 1993, he co-starred in the made-for-TV comedy film Wind in the Wire starring Randy Travis in the main role. The rest of the cast includes Burt Reynolds, Lou Diamond Phillips, Melanie Chartoff, Dale Robertson, Denver Pyle, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Peter Jason.[57]
During the prime of Walker, Texas Ranger, he continued making movies starting with Hellbound (1994). A supernatural thriller film starring co-starring Calvin Levels and Christopher Neame. It was the final film made by Cannon Films. Frank Shatter (Norris) and Calvin Jackson (Levels) are two Chicago Police detectives sent to investigate the brutal murder of a rabbi. As the investigation begins, Shatter and Jackson are summoned to Israel for questioning. Upon arrival, they realize that they are, in fact, pursuing a supernatural being – Satan's emissary, Prosatanos (Neame)– who tried to wrest control of the world from God during the crusades.
At the 1994 edition of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s Survivor Series event, Norris was the special outside enforcer for the casket match between The Undertaker and Yokozuna.[58] During the match, Norris delivered a roundhouse kick to an interfering Jeff Jarrett.[59][60]
Top Dog (1995), an action comedy, in which Norris' character, Jake Wilder, is partnered with Reno, a police dog, whose handler was killed. Jake and Reno investigate a plot by domestic terrorists to attack a conference on unity.
Forest Warrior (1996), an environmental family film about a land developer who wants to cut down all the trees in a forest where a group of local children play. A mythical spirit appears (Norris) to help them to vanquish the villains.[61]
In 1996, he published the book The Secret Power Within: Zen Solutions to Real Problems where he explains how the ancient system of Zen, the core philosophy behind the martial arts, can help achieve spiritual tranquility and self-confidence.[62]
Since 1997, Norris has appeared with Christie Brinkley in a long-running series of cable TV infomercials promoting Total Gym home fitness equipment.[63]
On November first, 1998, Norris starred, executive produced, and participated to writing the story of Michael Preece's award-winning television film Logan's War: Bound by Honor. It premiered on CBS, right after Walker, Texas Ranger newly scheduled episode.[64][65] Sharing the lead with Norris is actor Eddie Cibrian. It also co-stars Joe Spano, Jeff Kober, R. D. Call, Brendon Ryan Barrett, etc. The narrative follows Logan Fallon (Cibrian), who as a child witnesses the murder his father, a district attorney, and the rest of his family. Logan survives because of his sixth sense for danger. Knowing who killed them Logan vows revenge. He moves with uncle Jake (Norris) who raises him from that point teaching him self-defence and combat, until adulthood where he can fulfill his goal.[66] The television-film was ranked third among the thirteen most viewed shows of that week.[67]
In 1999, Norris produced and played Walker in a supporting role in the Walker, Texas Ranger spin-off Sons of Thunder. This year also playing the role of Walker, Norris acted a cross over episode of the Sammo Hung's TV show Martial Law. For another cross over, Hung also appeared as his character in Walker, Texas Ranger.
2000 to present day: Internet fame and current works
Norris during a meeting with Commanding Officer Captain J.R Haley, in June 2005
In 2000, Norris starred and was an executive producer for the television filmThe President's Man, where he reunited with director Michael Preece. It premiered on April 2 on CBS.[68] It is an action film co-starring starring Dylan Neal, Ralph Waite, Marla Adams, Stuart Whitman, and Soon-Tek Oh. The story is about, Joshua McCord (Norris), who's an aging president's man, the highest classified job in the USA. It consists to be a highly trained bodyguard of the president (Waite). After participating in a dangerous mission, McCord thinks of retiring and prepares to finds his replacement. McCord chooses Deke Slater (Neal), a former Army sergeant who is very talented but has a troubled record.[69][70][66]
In 2002, Norris returned for a sequel as Joshua McCord in Eric Norris' The President's Man: A Line in the Sand . It premiere on CBS on January 20.[71] The sequel co-starred Robert Urich, and Roxanne Hart. Secret agent Joshua McCord (Norris) is assigned by President Adam Mayfield (Urich) to prevent a band of terrorists from setting off a nuclear device in a U.S. city.[66]
In 2003, he co-starred in the supernatural Christian film Bells of Innocence, alongside Mike Norris (his son), David A. R. White, Carey Scott, and Marshall R. Teague. The film is about Jux Jonas (Mike Norris) a man who gives up his christian faith, after losing his family in a car accident. Reluctantly, he joins two friends (White and Scott) for a trip. While travelling, their small aircraft crashes, and the trio find themselves in a wasteland and find the secluded town of Ceres, a town where visitors are unwanted outsiders. They face the town elder (Teague) and confront him with the help of a local rancher (Chuck Norris).
That same year he was a guest on the TV Show Yes, Dear.
In 2004, he made a small appearance in the Rawson Marshall Thurber's comedy DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. The plot follows a group of misfits entering a Las Vegas dodge ball tournament to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain. Norris plays himself, in a small but pivotal role, as one judge during a dodgeball match.The film turned to be a success, it made a worldwide total of $167.7 millions, is described by critics as raunchy and low brow humor that delivers for many.[72][73][74][75]
That same year he published his autobiography Against All Odds: My Story.
In 2005, Norris founded the World Combat League (WCL), a full-contact, team-based martial arts competition, of which part of the proceeds are given to his Kickstart Kids program.[76]
On October 17, 2005, CBS premiered the Sunday Night Movie of the Week, Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire. The production was a continuation of the series, and not scripted to be a reunion movie. Norris reprised his role as Cordell Walker for the movie. He has stated that future Walker, Texas Ranger Movie of the Week projects are expected; however, this was severely impaired by CBS's 2006–2007 season decision to no longer regularly schedule Movies of the Week on Sunday night.
Norris during a promotion ceremony at Camp Taqaddum in theAl Anbar province of Iraq on November 2, 2006
Chuck Norris facts originally started appearing on the Internet in early 2005. Created by Ian Spector, they are satirical factoids about Norris. Since then, they have become widespread in popular culture. The 'facts' are normally absurd hyperbolic claims about Norris' toughness, attitude, virility, sophistication, and masculinity. Norris has written his own response to the parody on his website, stating that he does not feel offended by them and finds some of them funny,[77] claiming that his personal favorite is that they wanted to add his face to Mount Rushmore, but the granite is not hard enough for his beard.[78] At first it was mostly college students exchanging them, but they later became extremely widespread.[79] Books, video games, and TV ads would be based on the trend.[citation ^needed]
From that point on, Norris started to tour with the Chuck Norris facts appearing on major talk shows, and even visiting the troops in Iraq, for morale boosting appearances.[80][81][82][83][84]
In 2006, he starred in the film The Cutter, co-starring Joanna Pacuła, Daniel Bernhardt, Bernie Kopell and Marshall R. Teague. After a deadly kidnapping rescue gone wrong, a guilt ridden detective (Norris) recruits his specialized SWAT team to successfully rescue an aged diamond cutter from the hands of a murderous thief.
During that time he published his first novel The Justice Riders (2006) and its sequel A Threat to Justice (2007) both were co-written with Ken Abraham, Aaron Norris, and Tim Grayem.[85][86]
On November 29, 2007, Gotham Books, the adult division of Penguin USA, released a book penned by Ian Spector entitled The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 facts about the World's Greatest Human.[87] Norris subsequently filed suit in December against Penguin USA claiming "trademark infringement, unjust enrichment and privacy rights".[88] Norris dropped the lawsuit in 2008.[89] The book is a New York Times Best Seller. Since then, Spector has published four more books based on Chuck Norris facts, these are Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped: 400 All-New Facts About the Man Who Knows Neither Fear Nor Mercy, Chuck Norris: Longer and Harder: The Complete Chronicle of the World's Deadliest, Sexiest, and Beardiest Man, The Last Stand of Chuck Norris: 400 All New Facts About the Most Terrifying Man in the Universe, and Chuck Norris Vs. Mr. T: 400 Facts About the Baddest Dudes in the History of Ever (also a New York Times Best Seller).[90]
In 2008, he published the political non-fiction book Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America, which reached number 14 on the New York Times best seller list in September 2008.[91]
In 2008, Gameloft produced the video game Chuck Norris: Bring On the Pain for mobile devices, based on the popularity Norris had developed on the internet with the Chuck Norris facts.[92] The player takes control of Chuck Norris himself in a side-scrolling beat 'em up. The game was well reviewed.[93][94][95][96][97]
On October 7, 2009, Tyndale House Publishers issued The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories, which was co-written and officially endorsed by Norris.[98]
In 2010, Norris appeared in advertisements for communications company T-Mobile in the Czech Republic.[99]
In2011, Norris appeared in advertisements for the World of Warcraft video game.[100]
In 2012, Norris appeared in a series of commercials for the Polish bank BZ WBK.[101]
He co-starred in the 2012 sequel to The Expendables, alongside Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and many other action movie staples.The story of the second installment in The Expendables film series follows the mercenary group known as "the Expendables" as they undertake a seemingly simple mission which evolves into a quest for revenge against rival mercenary Jean Vilain (Van Damme), who murdered one of their own and threatens the world with a deadly weapon. Along the way they meet Booker (Norris) who saves them from Villain' minions and helps them along the way. The film was a success and grossed over $310 million worldwide.[102]
In 2015, he appeared in two commercials for the French TV show Pieds dans le plat.[103]
That same year, Norris and his wife Gena founded CForce Bottling Co. after an aquifer was discovered on his ranch.[104]
In 2016, he starred in the commercial for the beer Hoegaarden.[105]
In 2017, he appeared in the advertisement for United Healthcare.[106]
In 2017, Flaregames produced Non Stop Chuck Norris, an isometric action-RPG game for mobile device and is the second game to be based on his popularity developed by the Chuck Norris facts. The game was well reviewed.[107][108][109][110]
In 2017, Chuck Norris became Fiat's ambassador, a "tough face" for its commercial vehicles. Fiat says Norris embodies four pillars of its business: determination, reliability, dynamism, and competence.[111]
In 2018, Norris appeared in an ad for Hesburger, a Finnish hamburger chain.[112] That year he also did a commercial for Cerveza Poker.[113] His third commercial that year was for Toyota.[114]
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