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Chuck Norris (né Carlos Ray Norris) is an American actor and martial artist. Before starting his career as an actor, Norris was a widely-known martial artist who owned a chain of karate studios ...

In the late '50s and throughout the 1960s, after a stint in the United States Air Force, Chuck Norris started deeply exploring the martial art of karate. He opened a martial arts studio and began ...