RIP to a Legend- Chuck Norris

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i never thought i would be around when he died... thought he'd just live on forever

 

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Sad...another part of my youth gone. And these guys/legends aren't being replaced by other "men." Hollywood has gone full blown pussy and no one goes to the movies anymore, at least not regularly.

 

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Chuck Norris, US action movie star whose toughness inspired endless memes, dies at 86

From one studio to another, Chuck Norris turned discipline into legend – a martial arts champion who became the iron-jawed face of "Walker, Texas Ranger" and a larger-than-life cultural myth. He died…

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I was never really athletic until I was in the service in Korea.”

After he was honorably discharged in 1962, he worked as a file clerk for Northrop Aircraft and applied to be a police officer, but was put on a waitlist. Meanwhile, he opened a martial arts studio, which expanded to a chain, with students including such stars as Bob Barker, Priscilla Presley, Donnie and Marie Osmond, and Steve McQueen, whom he later credited with encouraging him to get into acting.

Norris made his film debut as an uncredited bodyguard in the 1968 movie “The Wrecking Crew,” which included a fight with Dean Martin. He had also crossed paths with Bruce Lee in martial arts circles. Their friendship – sometimes, as sparring partners – led to an iconic faceoff in the 1972 movie “Return of the Dragon,” in which Lee fights and kills Norris' character in Rome's Colosseum.