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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** Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist

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.

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

In the early months of the year 2000, while serving as a long-time senior lawyer for the California Department of Insurance ( CDI ), Ossias leaked confidential documents exposing the allegedly illegal and corrupt activities of Chuck Quackenbush, then Insurance Commissioner of California and head of CDI, to the state legislative consultant investigating the Commissioner's actions.

Other performing writers in the robust literary scene of the Austin area during that time when performance poetry turned into a school of poetry included Pat Littledog, Eleanor Crockett, Jim Ryan, Chuck Taylor, Greg Gauntner, Albert Huffstickler, W. Joe Hoppe, Andy Clausen, Isabella Ides and David Jewell ( poet ); most recorded on Hedwig Gorski's audio anthology project.

The band, who were invited, played one song ; Chuck Berry's " Johnny B. Goode " which turned out to be their last live performance.

In 1994, Warner campaigned for a former state Republican Attorney General turned Independent candidate Marshall Coleman against fellow Republican Oliver North in North's unsuccessful campaign to unseat Virginia's Democratic Sen. Chuck Robb.

On June 6 edition of SmackDown !, Rico turned on Rikishi by helping Billy and Chuck in pinning Rikishi for the tag titles.

By the end of 1999, Chuck E. Cheese's had purchased approximately 500 of DZ's locations and turned many of them into Chuck E. Cheese's facilities while shutting down the rest.

When Billy and Chuck decided not to go through with the marriage, Rico turned on them by helping Eric Bischoff and 3-Minute Warning attack the duo.

At the same time, Joni ( who has recently broken up with her long-term boyfriend Ted for the twelfth time ) starts to date Chuck, a football player who was extremely cruel to Paul's friend Infinite Darlene, when his crush on her turned out to be unrequited.

Chuck Harder was a former radio disk jockey turned talk show host in White Springs, Florida, USA.

Later on, while playing by the beach, Stella is reunited with Sasha, who is turned into an actual horse by the Professor and Chuck.

After accompanying Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Juventud Guerrera for their tag team match against Sean O ' Haire and Mark Jindrak, Sanders turned on the Animals and, along with Chuck Palumbo, Shawn Stasiak, and Reno, helped O ' Haire and Jindrak attack the Animals and lose the match via disqualification in the process.

Captain Chuck Mingonet officially turned over the base to General Nesbitt, Adjutant General of the Georgia State Department of Defense.

There, Chuck tells the hooker ( who believes that she'll be a hooker forever ) that she can turn her life around, pretending to reveal that Bree once was a prostitute and she had turned over a new leaf by going to school and starting a massive catering company.

Chuck Jones ' character styles were more controlled and calmed down, while Bob Clampett's were crazy, wacky and insane.

Robert McKimson claimed in an interview that many animators but mostly Clampett contributed to the crazy personality of Bugs, while others like Chuck Jones concentrated more on the more calmed down gags.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

" On defense the Dolphins ' goal was to neutralize Chuck Foreman by using cat-quick Manny Fernandez at nose tackle and to make passing difficult for Tarkenton by double-teaming John Gilliam and knocking down his receivers.

The penalty brought up third down and 11 yards to go, but Minnesota got the first down with running back Chuck Foreman's 12-yard run.

Chuck is left looking down each road.

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Chuck Conrad, president of the Des Plaines, Illinois chapter of the Classic Car Club of America stated, " Bolting yourself down to a 70-year-old piece of wood isn't really going to stop anything.

In 1963, when Chuck McDew stepped down as SNCC chairman, Lewis, one of the founding members of SNCC, was quickly elected to take over.

Dona Cadman had said that, prior to the May 19, 2005 budget vote, her husband Chuck Cadman was offered a million-dollar life insurance policy in exchange for his vote to bring down the Liberal government.

Porco is shot down by an American, Donald Chuck.

A Hoberman sphere is a structure invented by Chuck Hoberman that resembles a geodesic dome, but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its normal size by the scissor-like action of its joints.

MGM shut down its animation department in 1957, but new Tom and Jerry cartoons were produced by Gene Deitch and later Chuck Jones during the 1960s.

* Chuck Berry sings " Swing low, chariot, come down easy ," in his Promised Land, addressing the airplane that has flown him to California.

The latter shoot followed a striking scene in Chuck ( 2008 ) in which, as Dr Roberts, she had stripped down to her black brassiere to seduce the title character ( Zachary Levi ).

With the wind chill around − 70 ° F / − 57 ° C, ( or − 50 ° F / − 46 ° C ) Starr led his team down the field with three key completions: a 13-yard pass to Dowler, a 12-yarder to running back Donny Anderson, and a 19-yard throw to fullback Chuck Mercein.

The space where the club is located was formerly home to another venue called The Central, which was close to shutting down before Chuck E. Weiss, who had performed there for years, suggested to Depp that they revitalize the spot and rename it " The Viper Room ".

By this time, the group had slimmed down to ' Chuck ' and ' Jimmy-Joe Snark III '; who was actually mild-mannered producer and keyboardist Jean-Marc Lederman who had worked with the likes of Fad Gadget, The The and Kid Montana.

Magill was squeezed into the outside wall by the spinning car of Chuck Weyant, and Magill flipped over, sliding upside down off the track and into the infield.

Chuck Tatum is a fiercely ambitious, self-centered, wisecracking, down-on-his-luck reporter who has worked his way down the ladder.

The usually conservative Ram coach Chuck Knox uncharacteristically took the points off the board, giving Los Angeles a first down.