Chuck Norris: Celebrate actor's 81st birthday with some of his best action movies

LOS ANGELES - Chuck Norris, the former star of "Walker, Texas Ranger," celebrates his 81st birthday on March 10.

Norris, an American icon known for starring roles in popular action films and television, first studied martial arts in Korea in the 1950s while serving in the U.S. Air Force, according to Biography.com. When he returned home, he opened a karate studio and later tried his hand at acting — appearing with Bruce Lee in the 1972 film "Way of the Dragon."

His Hollywood career continued through the 1980s, and he even played the title character in the "Walker" TV series from 1993 until 2001. In 2012, he co-starred in "The Expendables 2."

Outside of Hollywood, Norris has become an occasional internet meme — finding himself at the center of popular jokes attributing superhuman strength and impossible feats to him. As one online joke goes, "Chuck Norris doesn't blow out birthday candles, he stares at them until they extinguish themselves!"

He’s also known as a conservative Christian and has campaigned for top Republicans throughout the years. Though he was born in Oklahoma, the Texas Senate named Norris an honorary Texan in 2017.

To celebrate his 81st birthday, fans can watch any of these free and on-demand films and documentaries on Tubi that feature Norris and some of his great fight scenes.

Breaker! Breaker! (1977) - "A martial-arts trucker looks for his brother in a small redneck town run by a judge who has an illegal speed trap to capture unaware travelers."

Good Guys Wear Black (1977) - "An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next."

A Force of One (1979) - "When an assassin targets members of an undercover narcotics investigation, the police enlist the help of a karate champion to take the killer down."

Silent Rage (1982) - "It’s up to a small town Texas sheriff to stop a mute maniacal murderer who has the ability to self-heal, and only wants to destroy life."

Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) - "After his daughter is kidnapped for witnessing a hijacking, a Texas Ranger and former Marine enters a deadly fight with an arms dealer to save her."

Code of Silence (1985) - "A karate cop takes on a corrupt department and two feuding crime families. He has the chops to do it."

Invasion U.S.A. (1985) - "A patriotic martial arts master comes out of retirement to wage battle against a legion of Soviet mercenaries who have invaded the United States."

Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos (1986) - "The famed Martial arts master is animated in this exciting series, where he plays a U.S. government agent who must fight an evil organization."

Hero and the Terror (1988) - "Chuck Norris ('Missing in Action') stars as homicide detective Danny O'Brien, known simply as 'Hero' for having brought down L.A.'s most vicious serial killer known as 'The Terror' (Jack O'Halloran, 'Farewell My Lovely'). But for years, O'Brien has secretly been haunted by the fact that his capture of The Terror was a fluke. When the murderer escapes from jail and returns to his old ways, O'Brien gets the chance to earn his glorified reputation...if his enemy doesn't destroy him first!"

Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) - "Chuck Connors returns as the iconic Vietnam vet Col. James Braddock who returns to Vietnam to free his wife and son who he had thought were dead."

Delta Force 2 (1990) - "Lead by action superstar Chuck Norris ('The Delta Force'), America's elite commando strike squad storms an isolated drug fortress in South America to free innocent hostages and do battle with the cocaine czar known as 'The Scorpion.'"

The Hollywood Collection: Steve McQueen, Man on the Edge (1990) - "Before he was a leading man, he was a young boy abandoned by his father, and later a Marine. This is the story of a movie star who changed the game."

Top Dog (1995) - "Maverick cop, Jake Wilder, is convinced his career is in jeopardy when he meets his new partner: a mischievous, high-I.Q. canine named Reno."

The Cutter (2006) - "After a kidnapping rescue goes fatally awry, a shamed detective tries to save an old diamond cutter, once interned at Auschwitz, from a savage thief."

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2016) - "A look at the remarkable life of martial arts legend Bruce Lee and his philosophy of Jeet Kune Do presents new insights and never-before-seen footage."

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The Best Chuck Norris Jokes

Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris.

If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever.

Chuck Norris breathes air … five times a day.

In the Beginning there was nothing … then Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked nothing and told it to get a job.

Chuck Norris has a mug of nails instead of coffee in the morning.

If Chuck Norris were to travel to an alternate dimension in which there was another Chuck Norris and they both fought, they would both win.

The dinosaurs looked at Chuck Norris the wrong way once. You know what happened to them.

Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, ‘Two seconds till.’ After you ask, ‘Two seconds to what?’ he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

Chuck Norris appeared in the ‘Street Fighter II’ video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this “glitch,” Chuck Norris replied, “That’s no glitch.”

Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse kick related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.

Chuck Norris does not own a stove, oven, or microwave , because revenge is a dish best served cold.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his pee as a canned beverage. It’s now called Red Bull.

If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can dribble a bowling ball.

Chuck Norris drinks napalm to fight his heartburn.

Chuck Norris’ roundhouse kick is so powerful, it can be seen from outer space by the naked eye.

If you want a list of Chuck Norris’ enemies, just check the extinct species list.

Chuck Norris has never blinked in his entire life. Never.
Chuck Norris once shot an enemy plane down with his finger, by yelling, “Bang!”

Chuck Norris does not use spell check. If he happens to misspell a word, Oxford will change the spelling.

Some kids pee their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can pee his name into concrete.

Chuck Norris’ calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, because no one fools Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity… twice.

Chuck Norris can speak Braille.

Chuck Norris can have both feet on the ground and kick butt at the same time.

Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.

Chuck Norris stands faster than anyone can run.

Once a cobra bit Chuck Norris’ leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

Chuck Norris once won a game of Connect Four in three moves.

Champions are the breakfast of Chuck Norris.
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors.

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting implies the possibility of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

The dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

Chuck Norris can play the violin with a piano.

Chuck Norris makes onions cry.

Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience.

When Chuck Norris writes, he makes paper bleed.

Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.

Chuck Norris never retreats; He just attacks in the
opposite direction.

Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.

Chuck Norris can drown a fish.

Chuck Norris once had a heart attack. His heart lost.

When Chuck Norris looks in a mirror, the mirror shatters. Because not even glass is dumb enough to get in between Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris.

When Chuck Norris enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.

The only time Chuck Norris was ever wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.

Chuck Norris can tie his shoes with his feet.

The quickest way to a man’s heart is with Chuck Norris’s fist.

Chuck Norris is the only person that can punch a cyclops between the eye.

Chuck Norris used to beat up his shadow because it was following to close. It now stands 15 feet behind him.

There has never been a hurricane named Chuck because it would have destroyed everything.

Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he’s pushing the Earth down.

Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch. He decides what time it is.

Chuck Norris does not get frostbite. Chuck Norris bites frost.

In Pamplona, Spain, the people may be running from the bulls, but the bulls are running from Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris spices up his steaks with pepper spray.

The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It didn’t work.

Chuck Norris can get in a bucket and lift it up with himself in it.

Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chuck Norris has 72… and they’re all lethal.

Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.

Chuck Norris doesn’t shower, he only takes blood baths.
Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

The show Survivor had the original premise of putting people on an island with Chuck Norris. There were no survivors.

Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because Chuck Norris only recognizes the element of surprise.

Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants are now known as giraffes.

When Chuck Norris was born, the only person who cried was the doctor. Never slap Chuck Norris.

When Chuck Norris does division, there are no remainders.
It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

Chuck Norris proved that we are alone in the universe. We weren’t before his first space expedition.

Chuck Norris once went skydiving, but promised never to do it again. One Grand Canyon is enough.

Chuck Norris once ordered a steak in a restaurant. The steak did what it was told.

We live in an expanding universe. All of it is trying to get away from Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris had to stop washing his clothes in the ocean. Too many tsunamis.

Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open.

Chuck Norris can cook minute rice in 30 seconds.

Chuck Norris beat the sun in a staring contest.

Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris undies.

Chuck Norris doesn’t breathe, he holds air hostage.

Chuck Norris can clap with one hand.

Chuck Norris doesn’t need to shave. His beard is scared to grow.

Before he forgot a gift for Chuck Norris, Santa Claus was real.

In an average living room there are a thousand objects

Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.

Chuck Norris invented airplanes because he was tired of being the only person that could fly.

Chuck Norris’s belly button is actually a power outlet.
Freddy Krueger has nightmares about Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris is the only man who can fight himself and win.

Chuck Norris’ cowboy boots are made from real cowboys.

Chuck Norris can start a fire with an ice cube.

The flu gets a Chuck Norris shot every year.

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