Chuck Norris

Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma, son of Wilma (née Scarberry) and Ray Norris, who was a mechanic, a bus driver and truck driver. Norris father, grandfather (immigrant) and maternal grandmother was of Irish descent, while his father, grandmother and maternal grandfather were Cherokee Native Americans. Norris was named after Carlos Berry, his father's minister. He has two younger brothers, Wieland (deceased) and Aaron (a Hollywood producer). When Norris was sixteen, his parents divorced, and later he moved to the Prairie Village, Kansas and then Torrance, California with his mother and brothers. Norris describes his childhood as downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and poor schooling. Other children about his sarcasm mixed ethnicity, and Norris daydreamed about beating their executioners. Norris mentioned in his autobiography that his father was a very serious problem with alcohol and "no" a lot to him to grow. Norris admitted that he loved his father but does not like it. However, it is open, it felt only pity for the man as "just as it was, and he missed so much." 

He joined the U. S. Air Force as an Air Police (AP) in 1958 and was sent to Osan Air Base, South Korea. This is where Chuck Norris has a nickname, and began his training in Tang Soo Do (tangsudo), an interest that led to a black belt in the art and the creation of the Chun Kuk Do ( "Universal ") form. He created the education associations of the Federation of martial arts and "Kickstart" (formerly "Kick Drugs of America"), in the school environment and curriculum to enable children at risk in focus life through the martial arts. When he returned to the United States, he continued to act as PA to March Air Force Base, California. Norris was released in August 1962. He worked in a company Northrop and opened a chain of karate schools, which Chad McQueen, Steve McQueen son attended.