{"id":169307,"date":"2026-03-20T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169307\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:30:35","slug":"action-star-chuck-norris-dead-at-86-the-morning-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169307\/","title":{"rendered":"Action star Chuck Norris dead at 86 \u2013 The Morning Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris has died<\/a>, according to a report. He was 86 years old.<\/p>\n

Family members confirmed to TMZ that Norris died Thursday morning in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday [Thursday] morning,\u201d they said in a statement. \u201cWhile we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

It follows news that Norris earlier this week experienced a medical emergency<\/a> while training on the island of Kauai. He was hospitalized after the fact, but friends said he appeared to be in good spirits at the time.<\/p>\n

In his final Instagram post on March 10, Norris can be seen sparring with his trainer during to ring in his 86th birthday.<\/p>\n

In the caption, the \u201cWalker, Texas Ranger\u201d star added: \u201cI\u2019m 86 today! Nothing like some playful action on a sunny day to make you feel young. I\u2019m grateful for another year, good health and the chance to keep doing what I love. Thank you all for being the best fans in the world. Your support through the years has meant more to me than you\u2019ll ever know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Chuck<\/p>\n

Dick Lewis \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Chuck Norris in Manhattan in 1982. (Dick Lewis \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris has died, according to a report. He was 86 years old.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[157,75,84,83,158,607,9,24,12,11169,63,904],"class_list":["post-169307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-entertainment","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-movies","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-news-obituaries","tag-nyc","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}