American actor and former world karate champion Chuck Norris has died at age 86. He had fallen ill in Hawaii. His family has confirmed the disappearance of the legendary singer of “Walker, Texas Ranger”.
We do not yet know the circumstances of this illness which led to the death of Chuck Norris, except that it occurred “during the last 24 hours on the island of Kauai”.
Chuck Norris, a martial arts star who made his mark in Hollywood starring in action films in the 1980s, celebrated his 86th birthday last week and marked the occasion with posts on social media.
“I’m not getting old. I’m taking it to the next level,” he wrote in the caption of an Instagram video, where we see him boxing with a partner.
The famous Chuck Norris Facts
Born in Oklahoma, he founded his own martial arts school in the late 1960s and trained a number of celebrities at the time. It was Bruce Lee who spotted him and asked him to appear in his film “The Fury of the Dragon”, in 1972.
Chuck Norris will then experience great success in the cinema in feature films of varying quality such as “The Casseurs”, “The Black Tiger Commando”, “Force One”. Or even “Horror in the City”, “Missing”, “Delta Force”. And more recently, “Expendables 2.”
On television, Chuck Norris enjoyed immense international success from 1993 to 2001 with the CBS series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” alongside Clarence Gilyard and Sheree J. Wilson.
We also owe him a number of reference books regarding martial arts.
In recent years, the indestructible side of Chuck Norris on screen has earned him a whole series of gags about him, the famous “Chuck Norris Facts”.
Some examples? “Chuck Norris is the only man to own a signed Bible”, “Chuck Norris doesn’t lie, it’s the truth that’s wrong”, “Chuck Norris can make beer by stirring air”, “Chuck Norris can resurrect a blind spot”, “Chuck Norris has already counted to infinity, twice” and of course “Chuck Norris doesn’t get wet, it’s water that chucknorrises”.
