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Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist, and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do. Norris appeared in a number of action films, such as ''Way of the Dragon'', in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee, and was The Cannon Group's leading star in the 1980s.〔 He played the starring role in the television series ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' from 1993 until 2001. Norris is a devout Christian and politically conservative. He has written several books on Christianity and donated to a number of Republican candidates and causes. In 2007 and 2008, he campaigned for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who was running for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Norris also writes a column for the conservative website ''WorldNetDaily''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=WorldNetDaily )〕 Since 2005 Norris has been widely associated with an internet meme which documents fictional and often absurd feats associated with him. ==Early life== Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma on March 10, 1940, the son of Wilma (née Scarberry) and Ray Norris, who was an World War II Army soldier,〔 a mechanic, bus driver, and truck driver.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chuck Norris Biography (1940–) )〕 Norris is one half Irish and one half Cherokee Indian, whose paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were full blooded Cherokees.〔〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001569/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm〕 Norris was named after Carlos Berry, his father's minister. He has two younger brothers, Wieland (1943-1970; killed in Vietnam) and Aaron (a Hollywood producer). When Norris was sixteen, his parents divorced, and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas, and then to Torrance, California, with his mother and brothers.〔 Norris has described his childhood as downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and scholastically mediocre. He joined the United States Air Force as an Air Policeman (AP) in 1958 and was sent to Osan Air Base, South Korea. It was there that Norris acquired the nickname ''Chuck'' and began his training in Tang Soo Do (tangsudo), an interest that led to black belts in that art and the founding of the Chun Kuk Do ("Universal Way") form. When he returned to the United States, he continued to serve as an AP at March Air Force Base in California. Norris was discharged in August 1962. He worked for the Northrop Corporation and opened a chain of Karate schools including a storefront school in his then-hometown of Torrance on Hawthorne Boulevard. Norris' official website lists celebrity clients at the schools; among them Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen, Bob Barker, Priscilla Presley, Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond.〔(Biography ), Chuck Norris Official Website〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Norris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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