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Chuck (born Carlos Ray) Norris died yesterday at the age of 86.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, Carlos Ray Norris described himself growing up as a shy, nonathletic and mediocre student.\u00a0 His parents divorced when Carlos was 16.\u00a0 His family suffered financially, since his father didn’t always work and had a drinking problem.<\/p>\n
When Carlos was 18 he joined the Air Force.\u00a0 That move changed his life.\u00a0 Carlos was was sent to Osan Air Base, South Korea.\u00a0 That’s where he folks began calling him Chuck (which stuck) and he started learning the martial arts.<\/p>\n
Upon his discharge, Chuck Norris opened a chain of martial arts schools and he began entering martial arts competitions.\u00a0 Mr. Norris competed from 1968 to 1974 compiling a 183 win, 10 loss, 2 draw record.\u00a0 Chuck Norris was a six-time undefeated World Professional Middleweight Karate champion.\u00a0 He held multiple black belts in serveral different martial arts forms.\u00a0 It was during this time, that Chuck Norris met Bruce Lee.\u00a0 They became friends and occassionally trained together.<\/p>\n
Mr. Norris’ martial arts schools attracted several celebrities including Steve McQueen, Bob Barker, Priscilla Presley, as well as Donny and Marie Osmond.<\/p>\n
Chuck Norris’ first acting\u00a0 role was in a small part in the Dean Martin film, The Wrecking Crew<\/em>.\u00a0 It was his role in Bruce Lee’s Way of the Dragon<\/em> (titled Return of the Dragon<\/em> in the US) that brought Chuck Norris to the attention of Hollywood.\u00a0 Chuck Norris became a star, headlining\u00a0 dozens of feature films as well as Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em> the hit television series that ran for nine seasons and several made-for-tv movies.<\/p>\n Some of the television projects that feature Chuck Norris acting include: Room 222; Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos<\/em> (5 episodes); Wind in the Wire; Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em> (196 episodes); Logan’s War: Bound by Honor; Sons of Thunder<\/em> (4 episodes); Martial Law; The President’s Man; The President’s Man: A Line in the Sand; Walker Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire; The Goldbergs<\/em> and Hawaii 5-0<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some feature films that Chuck Norris appeared in include: The Wrecking Crew; The Way of the Dragon; Breaker! Breaker!; Good Guys Wear Black; A Force of One; The Octagon; An Eye for an Eye; Silent Rage; Forced Vengeance; Lone Wolf McQuade; Missing in Action; Missing in Action II: The Beginning; Code of Silence; Invasion USA; The Delta Force; Firewalker; Braddock: Missiing in Action III; Hero and the Terror; Delta Force 2: The Columbian Connection; The Hitman; Sidekicks; Dodgeball: A True Underdog’s Story <\/em>and The Expendables 2.<\/em><\/p>\n I first saw Chuick Norris acting in Way of the Dragon<\/em>.\u00a0 What an impression he made!\u00a0 I was always excited to see each film when Mr. Norris began starring in action movies.\u00a0 Favorites include A Force of One<\/em> and The Octagon<\/em>.\u00a0 Of course I loved when Chuck Norris showed up in Expendables 2<\/em>.\u00a0 Chuck Norris is one of the few actors that I like as much off screen as on.<\/p>\n Out thoughts and prayers go out to Chuck Norris’ family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chuck (born Carlos Ray) Norris died yesterday at the age of 86.\u00a0 No cause of death was given. Surprisingly, Carlos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,66,54,57,49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-mma","category-movies","category-rip","category-sports","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41361,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41360\/revisions\/41361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}