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The life of Chuck Norris

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-Biography-Championship -The cinema -The Film -The end of his career

Biography

-Carlos Ray Norris born 10 march 1940 in Ryan (Oklahoma)-Join United States Air Force, military service at Osan Base, South Korea and acquires the nickname Chuck and begins learning tangsudo -left the army in August 1962 -won numerous martial arts championships and became a black belt in tangsudo, taekwondo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo. -founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do, founded the school of the United Fighting Arts Federation frequented by many celebrities, including Steve McQueen

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Championships

karate champion in the middleweight category of the Professional Middleweight Karate championship

wins triple crown in karate for tournament record awarded by Black Belt magazine

The Cinema

- 1968 Chuck Norris made his film debut, playing a small role-1970, his youngest brother Weiland died in Vietnam Chuck would later dedicate his film "Missing (1984)" to him. -1972, while he is still the reigning world karate champion, he plays his first important role in the cinema by playing, in The way of the dragon, the martial artist faced by Bruce Lee

The Film

-First leading role in 1977, in the film The Breakers-Becomes a full-fledged star of action cinema, chaining together films : -The Black Tiger Commando -The Fury of the Righteous -Tooth for a Tooth - An Eye for an Eye -Invasion USA -Delta Force

advocated by the character of the evil karateka John Kreese, the one who runs the Cobra Kai karate gym.

1984, he refused to play in Karate Kid, so as not to be associated with the negative image of karate

The end of his career

In 2011, he appeared in the film Expendables 2, released on August 22, 2012.

At the end of the 1980s, theaters were no longer as full as they were, so they turned to television, launching the Walker texas ranger series in 1993.

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