VA ntage Point. Norris enlisted in the Air Force in after graduating high school. He joined as an air policeman and hoped to train as security police. He continued to serve as an air policeman until his discharge from service in August at the rank of airman first class. Following his military service, Norris applied to be a police officer but ended up on the waiting list.
While he waited, Norris decided to open a martial arts studio in his town of Torrance, California, which led to his opening a chain of studios. He started to enter martial arts competitions. After several years, he won his first World Middleweight Karate Championship title in Norris held the title of Karate World Champion for six consecutive years and retired after his victory in Norris went on for several decades to star in action movies and television shows like Walker, Texas Ranger and The Delta Force.
He also still appears in advertisements. In , Commandant Gen. James T. Conway made Norris an honorary United States Marine. Happy 80 th birthday, Chuck. Do you still blow out your birthday candles with a roundhouse kick? Do you want to light up the face of a special Veteran? Have you been wondering how to tell your Veteran they are special to you? All it takes is an email to newmedia va.
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Keywords: air force Karate martial arts South Korea. Thank you for your service and all the great work you have done related to your martial arts and movie career, hope you had a wonderful birthday. Chuck norris proud to call u brother in arms. Im a Viet-Nam era vet. Thank u for ur svc and all your great movies troughout the yrs.
Thank you for your service and for the many decades of helping kids and whoever you were able to help. He left the service in , and started working as a karate instructor. In the s, Norris opened more than 30 karate studios. McQueen encouraged his teacher to try acting. In addition to being an instructor, Norris also was a fierce competitor. He participated in numerous martial arts tournaments, and he won many of the events he competed in.
Norris earned his first World Middleweight Karate Championship title in Proving to be one of the greatest fighters in martial arts, he defended this title five more times. He decided to retire after his victory.
While he had made one brief film appearance previously, Norris made more of an impact on movie-goers in 's Way of the Dragon also known as Return of the Dragon in the United States. One of the highlights of the film was a fight scene between Norris and martial arts action star Bruce Lee, staged in the famed Roman Colosseum. In , Norris had his first starring role in the action film Breaker!
Movie audiences loved to watch him mete out swift justice to bad guys in such films as Good Guys Wear Black and Forced Vengeance. In Missing in Action , Norris played a former prisoner of war who returns to Vietnam to free other soldiers still being held.
He did this film and its sequels as a tribute to his younger brother, Wieland, who died in combat in Vietnam. Norris received warmer reviews for his cop movie, Code of Silence , and teamed up with the legendary tough guy Lee Marvin for the military action film The Delta Force Norris' box-office appeal, however, was beginning to fade by the early s. No longer making hit movies, he made the switch to the small screen with Walker, Texas Ranger.
Norris played Cordell Walker, an honorable crime fighter, for eight years. The show had a strong following, and was still faring well in the ratings when it went off the air in Since then, Norris has taken on few acting roles. He has also served as a product spokesperson, appearing in infomercials for exercise equipment. In , Norris started his own charitable organization called Kickstart with help from President George H.
Kickstart provides martial arts training to middle-school students to learn respect and discipline and to improve their self-esteem. Chuck Norris. Edit source History Talk 0. For the American politician, see Chuck Norris politician. Main article: Chun Kuk Do.
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