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MBCook 6 hours ago

And he would be known by those people. I remember him being famous in the 90s.

Would the people who grew up in the early 2000s, or especially 2010s, know much of anything about him?

I mean how much do younger people know about Scott Baio or the Corys or Candice Bergen these days?

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ben7799 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them.

His career lasted far longer. He had big movie appearances for 30 years, none of those people accomplished that.

Norris' first movie role was in 1968, first big credited appearance was 1972, Walker Texas Ranger finished in 2001.

	▲	allturtles 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them. I think that's a hard argument to make. Candace Bergen's career was just as long. Her first movie role was 1966, she was nominated for an Oscar in 1979, and she was on a popular sitcom from 1988 to 1998 that won her five Emmies and attracted national commentary after criticism from the Vice President. I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and to me even then Chuck Norris was a B-movie self-parody joke character. He was not an A-list "action star" in the sense that Schwarzenegger, Stallone, or even Van Damme were.

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spencerflem 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Haha haven’t heard of either of those but I do know that when Chuck Norris does pushups he pushes the Earth down

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kakacik 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The dude was a badass, 6 time undefeated karate world champion (!!!), created his own variant of karate mixed with korean martial arts, was a good friend with Bruce Lee and that scene in Colloseum - probably the coolest thing I saw as a kid growing up behind iron curtain... not many actors can have such a resume on top of their acting career.

Those who cared would/will know him regardless. But obviously those people would be relatively few and far apart.

	▲	smartmic 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		An immense amount of time, dedication and talent must have went into all those achievements. This requires mastery of body and mind at an exceptional level. Putting aside all jokes and acting roles, the martials arts is where he earned my full respect and that will also stick in my memory about him.
	▲	beAbU 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He had is own line of denims, with extra stretchy crotches. Makes roundhouse kicking baddies in the face easier.