Chuck Norris’s acting career spanned seven decades, during which he continued to resurface as a classic action hero character.<\/p>\n
He collected over 30 movie credits, according to the IMDb database.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s a rundown of some of his most notable film and TV appearances:<\/p>\n
The Way of the Dragon – 1972<\/p>\n
In his breakthrough movie, Norris plays the antagonist to legendary Hong Kong martial artist Bruce Lee, whose character fights and kills Norris in Rome’s Colosseum.\n<\/p>\n
Lone Wolf McQuade – 1983<\/p>\n
In this neo-Western, Norris is JJ McQuade, a Texas Ranger, who works alone, setting the scene for his eponymous hit TV show in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
Missing In Action – 1984<\/p>\n
Norris stars as Colonel James Braddock, a US officer who returns to Vietnam to rescue soldiers held captive. The film inspired two sequels, in 1985 and 1988.<\/p>\n
The Delta Force –\u00a01986<\/p>\n
Norris stars as an elite commando sent to rescue airline hostages from terrorists in the Middle East, inspired by real-world hijackings.<\/p>\n
Sidekicks – 1992<\/p>\n
Norris plays a fictionalised version of himself, who inspires a bullied, asthmatic boy to gain confidence through martial arts in a Karate Kid-style plot.<\/p>\n
Walker, Texas Ranger – 1993 to 2001<\/p>\n
Norris plays a modern-day Texas Ranger who fights crime with martial arts and old-school morality. Running for nine seasons, the show became his most enduring role.<\/p>\n
The Expendables 2 – 2012<\/p>\n
In the sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s action hero all-star show,\u00a0Norris makes a self-referential cameo as a legendary lone wolf operative leaning into his meme-like status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chuck Norris’s acting career spanned seven decades, during which he continued to resurface as a classic action hero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-339579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}