The 1986 film The Delta Force starred Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops tasked with retaking a plane hijacked by Lebanese terrorists.

Others such as department store magnate James Cash Penney, Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, actor / martial artist Chuck Norris, wrestlers Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, AJ Styles, Ted DiBiase and wrestler Sting, and actors Jesse McCartney, Kirk Cameron, and Mr. T are also mentioned as being born again.

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His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.

This era produced some Hollywood action stars with martial arts background, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris.

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Pallbearers at his funeral on 31 July 1973 included Taky Kimura, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Chuck Norris, George Lazenby, Dan Inosanto, Peter Chin, and Lee's brother Robert.

Bruce also instructed several World Karate Champions including Chuck Norris, Joe Lewis, and Mike Stone.

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Besides its instantly polarizing looks, exposure was also gained by usage of the new truck on the hit TV show Walker, Texas Ranger starring Chuck Norris.

* In the 1984 Movie Missing In Action with Chuck Norris, an episode of Spider-man and his Amazing Friends is shown on TV.

The latter also introduced action fans to then-rising star Chuck Norris as well.

Though Jackie Chan's Rush Hour is often credited as popularizing the martial arts action film in the United States, Chuck Norris had been blending martial arts with cops and robbers since Good Guys Wear Black ( 1977 ) and A Force of One ( 1979 ).

The 1980s would see the action film take over Hollywood to become a dominant form of summer blockbuster ; literally " the action era " popularized by actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

* In the 1972 film Way of the Dragon, Bruce Lee fought Chuck Norris in the Colosseum.

Chuck Norris allegedly turned down the role of John Kreese, because he did not want to portray a character that reinforced a negative stereotype of martial arts.

Clarence Gilyard informed viewers on a television commercial for Walker, Texas Ranger that he was not Chuck Norris's sidekick, instead humorously saying, " This is Chuck Norris's sidekick ," over footage of Norris kicking a villain.

Chuck Norris, whose wife Gena Norris is a Chester native, has a vacation home in Chester.

* Chuck Norris, actor and martial arts champion, briefly lived in Prairie Village as a teenager

Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).

" The Tackle is mentioned in the film Castaway where Kelly tells Chuck that the Titans had a chance to tie the game but failed " by one lousy yard ".

It stars Gregory Peck, who also co-produced the film with Wyler, plus Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors.

The film is based on Detective Chuck Adamson's pursuit of serial criminal Neil McCauley in the 1960s.

Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some of MGM's most popular performers in a lavish two-hour revue.

Chuck Jones perfected the Porky-as-straightman scenarios, pairing the pig with Daffy Duck in a series of film parodies such as Drip-Along Daffy, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, Deduce, You Say !, and Robin Hood Daffy.

Written by C. Gardner Sullivan and directed by Reginald Barker, the film tells of the love affair between high society girl Octavia van Ness ( Enid Markey ) and the loutish Chuck Hemingway ( Dustin Farnum ).

According to director Chuck Jones, this film demonstrated for the first time that animation can create characters with a recognizable personality, independent of their appearance, milieu, or voice.

Duck Amuck is included in the compilation film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie, along with other favorite Chuck Jones cartoons including What's Opera, Doc?

The film features performances by Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Anita O ' Day, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Jack Teagarden.

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The film, produced by Tani L. Cohen and Chuck Grieve, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival on September 12, 1992, and was released to a very limited number of theaters in the United States in 1993.

Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band perform the Chuck Berry song " Roll over Beethoven " for the 1992 film Beethoven.

* Choke, the film adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name was filmed at the Essex County Hospital Center in neighboring Cedar Grove.

At the end of the film Cast Away, Chuck Nolan ( Tom Hanks ) is seen on US Route 83 near Interstate 40, the real-life location of Shamrock.

Clooney made his directorial debut in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris.

Charles Hirsch " Chuck " Barris ( born June 3, 1929 ) is an American game show creator, producer, and host ; a film director ; and a presenter best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game.

On the side, Clampett directed a sales film, co-animated by Chuck Jones and in-betweened by Robert Cannon.

" Chuck Jones particularly disliked Clampett, and made no mention of his association with him in either his 1979 compilation film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie ( in which Jones lists himself and other Warners directors ) or his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck.