Biography
The indigene of Ryan, Oklahoma, Norris has two immature brothers, one of which is Hollywood producer Aaron Norris. Each of Norris's parents come half Cherokee Indian and half Irish.

After Norris was Twelve, his parents divorced & he relocated to California with his mother and brothers. There, he finished highschool & before long married his girlfriend, Diane Holechek. Fallowing marriage, inside 1958 Norris joined a United States Air Force as a Military Policeman & was sent to Osan Air Base South Korea. It was within South Korea that Norris acquired a nickname Chuck & began his step by step training within Tang Soo Clean.

Whilst he returned to the states he continued to work as an MP at March Air Click Base California

Norris was freed inside August of 1962 forswearing ever seeing combat besides that provided on base.

Norris has indicated within his have life story that he has black belts in Tang Soo Do, Tae Kwon Do, and is founder of Chun Kuk Do ("Universal Way"). Mr. Norris has too expert Judo, Shinto-Ryu Karate, and Brazilian jujutsu. He is as well founder of The United Fighting Arts Federation (UFAF).

Norris returned to the United States in 1962, working for the Northrop corporation and opening the karate school, which numerous celebrities, including Steve McQueen attended. Within 1963, his son Microphone was innate. The girl, Dina followed within 1964, and another boy, Eric, around 1965. However the second crucial moment happened around 1964: at a demonstration inside Long Beach, Norris met the soon to become noted, Bruce Lee, who would ingraaround Norris in martial arts history forever by owning his portrayal when Lee's nemesis in The Way of the Dragon. However when them were publicly friendly, contrary to what numerous (including Norris himself) state, it were non close friends. Eventually, them managed to placed aside any differences within pursuit of their reciprocal film aspirations & developed the friendly public persona toward a single a second.

Within 1968, Norris became Middleweight Karate champion (non-email), & around 1969, he won Karate's triple crown for a most tournament wins of the month, & the fighter of the season award by Black Belt magazine. It was too inside 1968 that Norris manufactured his acting debut, in the Dean Martin movie The Wrecking Crew. A greatest tragedy of Norris's life took place around 1970. His immature brother Weiland was flushed inside Vietnam. Norris late dedicated his Missing Around Action films to his brother's memory. Around 1972, he acted alongside Lee in the movie Way of the Dragon, and inside 1974, McQueen encouraged him to begin acting classes at a MGM Studio.

When at acting classes his voice & drama coach was Jonathan Harris, of Lost In Space fame. Harris taught Norris training speak by putting his fingers inside Norris's mouth, & stretching his mouth wide open. Norris describes Harris when a single human in the globe world health organization may develop away sustaining doing that to him.

Norris' 1st starring role was 1977's Breaker, Breaker!, and subsequent films like The Octagon (1980), An Eye for an Eye (1981), and Lone Wolf McQuade proved his increasing box professional bankability. Within 1984, Norris starred in Missing in Action, the number 1 of the series of POW rescue fantasies by Israeli cousin-german Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus and released under their Cannon Films banner. Above a next tetrad years, Norris became Cannon's virtually all large star, appearing around eight films, including Code of Silence, The Delta Force and Firewalker, in which he co-starred by having Oscar winner Louis Gossett, Jr.

When you took a 1970's he taught The Price is Right host Bob Barker karate.

Norris turned down the section of Sensei Kreese in the number one Karate Child film stating that he did non need his title and/or even image associated by owning the villainious or evil character. Within 1988, after Thirty years of marriage, Norris & Holechek divorced. Within 1990, Norris founded the non-not-for-profit Kick Doses Away from America. It has since been renamed KICKSTART. Per close of the 1980s, Cannon Films had faded from either prominence, & Norris' star appeal seemed to last sustaining it. He reprised his Delta Inflict role for MGM, who experienced acquired a Cannon library when a latter's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Norris went in to produce many additional largely unheeded films prior to making the transition to television. Around 1993, he began shooting the series Walker, Texas Ranger, which lasted eight years on CBS and continued in heavily syndicatiin on more trend lines.

He married once more within 1998, this time to previous model Gena O'Kelley, and she delivered twins in 2001: Dakota Alan Norris, a boy, and Danilee Kelly Norris, a girl. Norris likewise owns the home & property on the caribeen island of Anguilla.

Norris has portrayed an Army Major in The Delta Force, Army Colonel in Missing inside Action, & the Marine Captawithin during flashback scenes in his T.V. hit series Walker, Texas Ranger

United States President George W. Bush has stated that Norris is his favorite actor.

Filmography
The Wrecking Crew (1969) Way of the Dragon (1972) Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (documentary) The Student Teachers (1973) Slaughter in San Francisco (1974) The Warrior Within (1976) (documentary) Bruce Lee, the Legend (1977) (documentary) Breaker! Breaker! (1977) Good Guys Wear Black (1978) A Force of One (1979) The Octagon (1980) An Eye for an Eye (1981) Silent Rage (1982) Forced Vengeance (1982) Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) Missing in Action (1984) Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) Code of Silence (1985) Invasion U.S.A. (1985) The Delta Force (1986) Firewalker (1986) Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) Hero and the Terror (1988) Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990) The Hitman (1991) Sidekicks (1992) (Cameo) (also executive producer) Curse of the Dragon (1993) (documentary) Hellbound (1994) Top Dog (1995) Forest Warrior (1996) Bells of Innocence (2003) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) (Cameo) The Cutter (2005)