Chuck Norris Filmography

The Cutter

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Daniel Bernhardt, Bernie Kopell, Todd Jensen, Curt Lowens, Tracy Scoggins, Marshall Teague

Synopsis: In the aftermath of a daring rescue mission gone bad, a guilt-ridden detective vows to rescue a diamond cutter from the clutches of a murderous thief in this pulse-pounding action thriller starring silver screen icon Chuck Norris. John Shepherd (Norris) is a cop with a complex. In the days Read More

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Actors: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Justin Long, Stephen Root

Synopsis: Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story revolves around amiable underachiever Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn), whose rundown gym, Average Joe's, is populated by a less-than-average clientele including a self-styled pirate, an ultra-obscure sports aficionado, and a pining Read More

The Bells of Innocence

The Life & Legend of Bob Wall

Actors: Robert Wall

The President's Man 2: A Line In the Sand

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Judson Mills, Jennifer Tung, Robert Urich

Synopsis: Based on characters created by Bob Gookin, the made-for-TV thriller The President's Man 2: A Line in the Sand casts Chuck Norris in a role not dissimilar to his title character on the long-running series Walker: Texas Ranger. Norris is seen as secret agent Joshua McCord, the right-hand man to the Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 09

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Judson Mills, Nia Peeples

Synopsis: At long last, taciturn Texas Ranger Cord Walker (Chuck Norris) and Assistant D.A. Alex Cahill (Sheree J. Wilson) have gotten married, as Walker, Texas Ranger launches its ninth and final season. Alas, a pall is cast over the couple's happiness when Walker's closest friend, C.D. (Noble Willingham) Read More

The President's Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Dylan Neal, Jennifer Tung, Ralph Waite, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: Chuck Norris stars in this made-for-TV thriller as Joshua McCord, a Presidential secret agent. Though still quite virile and limber, McCord feels that he is getting too old for his job, thus he begins training a younger man named Deke Slater (Dylan Neal) as his replacement, using Zen and proper Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 08

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Judson Mills

Synopsis: Season eight of Walker, Texas Ranger resolves the cliffhanger finale of season seven, as Cord Walker (Chuck Norris), his partner Jimmy Trivette (Clarence Gilyard Jr.), his fiancée Alex Cahill (Sheree J. Wilson), and his best friend C.D. (Noble Willingham) survive a harrowing plane crash. The trick Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 07

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Mario Ernesto Sanchez

Synopsis: The cliffhanger that ended season six of Walker, Texas Ranger is resolved at the outset of season seven, as Assistant D.A. Alex Cahill (Sheree J. Wilson), longtime sweetheart of taciturn Texas Ranger Cord Walker (Chuck Norris), makes a full recovery after being shot down by an old enemy. This is Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Team Cherokee

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson

Logan's War: Bound by Honor

Actors: Chuck Norris, Eddie Cibrian, Brendon Ryan Barrett, James Gammon, Joe Spano

Synopsis: Logan Fallon was ten years old the night gangsters burst into his home and brutally murdered his district-attorney father and the rest of his family. Somehow, the boy had a premonition before it happened and saved himself. This actioner follows the adult Logan on his quest to honor his promise to Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 06

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham

Synopsis: Inscrutable, karate-chopping Cord Walker (Chuck Norris) and his more "by the book" partner Jimmy Trivette (Clarence Gilyard Jr.) continue to cleanse Dallas of the worst sort of criminal vermin during season six of Walker, Texas Ranger. Walker and Trivette are occasionally given backup this season Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 05

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham

Synopsis: Season five of Walker, Texas Ranger finds unsmiling, karate-kicking Cord Walker (Chuck Norris) settling accounts with all manner of criminals and lowlifes, aided and abetted by his partner, Ranger Jimmy Trivette (Clarence Gilyard Jr.). While Walker's girlfriend, Assistant D.A. Alex Cahill (Sheree J. Wilson Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 04

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham

Synopsis: Flinty-eyed, karate-chopping Cord Walker (Chuck Norris) continues to dispense his own rather direct brand of justice on a wide variety of miserable miscreants as Walker, Texas Ranger enters its fourth season. Standing shoulder to shoulder with Walker is his partner, Ranger Jimmy Trivette (Clarence Gilyard Jr. Read More

Forest Warrior

Actors: Chuck Norris, Terry Kiser, Max Gail, Roscoe Lee Browne, Trenton Knight

Synopsis: When avaricious land developers threaten the pristine forest playground of local children, a mythical spirit appears to help them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Chuck Norris: Private Lessons

Actors: Chuck Norris

Synopsis: Six-time World Karate Champion and martial arts superstar Chuck Norris teaches viewers how to use basic martial arts techniques for fitness and self-defense in this three-part home video presentation. Part one covers some basic self-defense techniques that can increase self-confidence and Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 03

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: Season three of Walker, Texas Ranger finds the title character, taciturn martial arts expert Cord Walker (Chuck Norris), utilizing strong arm methods rather than such namby-pamby methods as due process to mete out justice to robbers, kidnappers, pornographers, con artists and hijackers. This Read More

Top Dog

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clyde Kusatsu, Michele Lamar Richards, Peter S. Moore, Erik Von Detten

Synopsis: In this action comedy, renegade cop Jake Wilder investigates the death of his old friend, Lou Swanson, another cop, who was killed while investigating the bombing of a San Diego housing project. To solve the murder and stop the bomber, Wilder teams up with Swanson's partner, a German Shepherd Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 02

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: After a three-episode trial run in the spring of 1993, the contemporary Western Walker, Texas Ranger graduated to full weekly status as it began its second season in the fall of that year. Star of the proceedings is Chuck Norris as taciturn, karate-chopping Texas Ranger Cord Walker, who operates Read More

Hellbound

Actors: Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels, Christopher Neame, Sheree J. Wilson, David Robb

Synopsis: Though the direction of Hellbound is sometimes erroneously credited to editor Michael J. Duthie, the actual director was Aaron Norris, brother of the film's star, Chuck Norris. The story begins with the ritualistic murder of a Chicago rabbi. Detectives Shatter (Norris) and Jackson (Calvin Levels) Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson

Synopsis: This was the pilot film-and a reasonably good one-for Norris' CBS TV weekly Walker, Texas Ranger. Cordell Walker (Norris) must deal with a gang of well-organized bank robbers in this one. He also must deal with the wholesale theft of entire scenes by supporting actor Clarence Gilyard Jr., who Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 01

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: Introduced as a two-hour TV movie, the long-running modern Western Walker, Texas Ranger was given a three-week trial run in the spring of 1993 -- which, one supposes, qualifies as the series' first season. In the movie-length pilot, the partner of taciturn Texas Ranger Cord Walker (Chuck Norris) Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger: Deadly Reunion

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson

Synopsis: Appearing as a special two-hour episode in the second season of the television series Walker, Texas Ranger, this production finds Cordell Walker (martial arts expert Chuck Norris) hot on the trail of an assassin, who, under the guise of a Kansas City police officer, plans on murdering a senator Read More

Walker, Texas Ranger [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clarence Gilyard, Jr., Sheree J. Wilson, Noble Willingham, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: Karate-champion-turned-movie-star Chuck Norris was ideally cast as the title character in the contemporary Western series, Walker, Texas Ranger. Introduced as a two-hour TV movie on April 21, 1983, the weekly, hour-long CBS series starred Norris as Cordell Walker, who worked out of the Dallas Read More

Sidekicks

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Jonathan Brandis, Beau Bridges, Mako, Julia Nickson

Synopsis: A teenager daydreams of getting some payback from the bullies who menace him in this hybrid of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Karate Kid (1984). Barry Gabrewski (Jonathan Brandis) is an asthmatic schoolboy who can't participate in sports, much to the delight of a bullying classmate Read More

The Hitman

Actors: Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson, Salim Grant

Synopsis: Chuck Norris stars in this derivative action film (directed by his brother, Aaron Norris) which bears more than a passing similarity to Steven Seagal's Marked for Death. Norris plays Cliff Garret, a Seattle cop who is mortally wounded in a drug bust. Garret's condition is grave but he manages to Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Steve McQueen - Man on the Edge

Synopsis: This documentary, narrated by James Mason, traces the life of legendary big screen actor Steve McQueen. The product of a broken home and reform school, McQueen made a brilliant career in film in the 1960's and 1970's playing characters not unlike his own. He played the wily and rebellious loner in Read More

The Hit Man

Synopsis: Contrary to expectations, The Hit Man is not about a mob torpedo but instead deals with a Spielberg-style moviemaker, played by Dennis Boutsikaris. The villain is a loan shark (Nick Pryor) who's been reducing honest folks to penury. Utilizing the special-effects trickery at his disposal Read More

Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold

Actors: Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, Bobby Chavez, John Ryan, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: This confused sequel -- bearing many names in the credits: Delta Force 2, Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection -- to the first Delta Force movie lacks the nightmarish collection of guest stars gracing the first film, i.e. Hanna Shygulla, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters Read More

Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson

Synopsis: The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson offers a look at some of the most dramatic and exciting stunts ever performed by this premier Hollywood daredevil during his 19-year career. See stunts from Robinson's work in Lethal Weapon, Magnum Force, Sharkey's Machine, Papillion, and other Read More

Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Films

Synopsis: Piecing together exciting film footage of martial arts performances, Deadliest Art demonstrates the reasons for the popularity of martial arts combat in visual entertainment. The history of the art, including basics of the Eastern philosophies that govern it, provides insight along with the Read More

Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years

Synopsis: Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years is a television special celebrating 50 years of Bugs Bunny cartoons, complete with testimonials from various celebrities and a terrific end-piece "50 Years of Bugs in 3 Minutes," which features a manic collection of highlights compiled by Academy Award-winner Chuck Workman Read More

Hero and the Terror

Actors: Chuck Norris, Brynn Thayer, Steve James, Jack O'Halloran, Jeffrey Kramer

Synopsis: O'Brien (Chuck Norris) is a detective who captured the psychotic maniac Simon Moon (Jack O'Halloran), aka the Terror, by mistake. When the obese 6' 6'' villain fell from a ladder trying to escape, he was knocked cold and the lucky O'Brien got the credit for his collar. With his psychiatrist Read More

Braddock: Missing in Action 3

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Chuck Norris, Aki Aleong, Roland Harrah III, Miki Kim, Yehuda Efroni

Synopsis: Vietnam veteran Colonel Braddock had believed his Asian wife to be dead since the war, but he hears from a missionary that she is not only alive, but has a son. Soon, he returns to Vietnam to rescue them and others from a prison camp. This is the third Missing in Action film starring the Read More

Firewalker

Actors: Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett, Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their nemesis "El Coyote" (Sonny Landham) comes into Read More

The Delta Force

Actors: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the Read More

Invasion U.S.A.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Correa, Chuck Norris, Richard Lynch, Melissa Prophet, Alexander Zale, Alex Colon, Dehl Berti

Synopsis: This red-baiting action film stars Chuck Norris as Matt Hunter, a retired CIA agent who lives in the Florida Everglades. A communist invasion of Miami brings Hunter out of retirement to fight the encroaching hordes led by everyone's favorite low-budget bad guy, Richard Lynch. The film is extremely Read More

Code of Silence

Actors: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Molly Hagan, Joe Guzaldo

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1960 film of the same name, this fast-paced karate action flick stars Chuck Norris, still riding high on his karate film successes of the early '80s, and several years away from starting his popular Walker: Texas Ranger TV series. In this story he plays Eddie Cusak, a Read More

The Making of "The Terminator" & "Missing in Action 2"

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning

Actors: Chuck Norris, Soon-Teck Oh, Steven Williams, Cosie Costa, David Chung

Synopsis: While the first Missing in Action film told of a rescue mission by ex-POW Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris), the second concerns his original stay in a Vietnamese prisoner camp. The camp is governed by the crazed Colonel Yin (Soon-Teck Oh), who forces the POW's to grow opium for French drug Read More

Missing in Action

Actors: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Lenore Kasdorf, James Hong, Pierrino Mascarino, David Tress

Synopsis: One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. Read More

Lone Wolf McQuade

Actors: Chuck Norris, David Carradine, Barbara Carrera, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Robert Beltran

Synopsis: In this Spaghetti-western-like martial arts actioner, Texas Ranger J. J. McQuade (Chuck Norris) is up against the weapons-dealer Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine) after Wilkes kidnaps McQuade's partner and daughter and takes them to Mexico. McQuade's personal vendetta is encouraged by the government Read More

The World of Martial Arts

Forced Vengeance

Actors: Chuck Norris, Mary Louise Weller, Michael Cavanaugh, Camilla Griggs, David Opatoshu

Synopsis: In this martial-arts actioner, a pugnacious, taciturn Vietnam vet begins working for an honest casino owner to help keep the evil gangsters at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Silent Rage

Actors: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, Toni Kalem, William Finley, Brian Libby

Synopsis: The sheriff of a small Texas town is pitted against a genetically engineered super-villain. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

An Eye for an Eye

Actors: Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Matt Clark, Mako

Synopsis: The frequently used title An Eye for an Eye was applied to a Chuck Norris martial-arts festival in 1981. Norris plays Sean Kane, a San Francisco cop whose partner is murdered by an Oriental drug ring. Told to keep his distance by his superiors, Kane quits the force and sets out to exact vengeance. Read More

The Octagon

Crew: Choreography

Actors: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Carol Bagdasarian

Synopsis: Karate champ Chuck Norris returns for another chop-socky vigilante flick in The Octagon, one of a handful of undistinguished Ninja pictures released during the early '80s. Norris appropriately plays a retired karate champ hired as a bodyguard for a wealthy woman (Karen Carlson) plagued by a gang Read More

A Force of One

Actors: Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris, Ron O'Neal, Clu Gulager, James Whitmore, Jr.

Synopsis: To say that Chuck Norris is the star of Force of One may smack of redundancy. Norris is cast as Vietnam vet Matt Logan, assigned to instruct a big-city narcotics squad in the intricacies of martial arts. His star pupil turns out to be Detective Mandy Rust (Jennifer O'Neill). Initially Read More

Good Guys Wear Black

Actors: Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes, James Franciscus, Dana Andrews

Synopsis: Chuck Norris plays John T. Booker, a Vietnam vet who finds out that several of his army buddies lost their lives in a mission that was intended to fail. Seeking answers, Booker quits his school-teaching job and tracks down the surviving members of his unit. One by one, his old friends are being Read More

The Game of Death

Actors: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Star Bruce Lee died before this film was completed, thus the producers were forced to pad out the running time with outtakes and alternate shots. They also lifted chunks of footage from Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon. The finished product finally hit the screens in 1978, five years Read More

Breaker! Breaker!

Actors: George Murdock, Terry O'Connor, Don Gentry, John di Fusco, Ron Cedillos

Synopsis: A typical Chuck Norris vehicle from the late '70s, Breaker! Breaker! is neither the first nor the last Hollywood attempt to translate the wide appeal of trucking into big-screen profits. Alhough, it is probably the least successful. In this "modern" Western, a small California town is ruled by the Read More

The Warrior Within

Synopsis: A number of martial arts experts illustrate their technique and discuss the ancient arts of self defense. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Student Teachers

Synopsis: In this sexploitation film from Roger Corman's New World films, three buxom student teachers use alternative methods to instruct their handsome young students. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Yellow Faced Tiger

Actors: Wang Tao, Chuck Norris, Sylvia Channing, Robert Jones, Dan Ivan

Synopsis: When his partner is murdered, a police officer (Don Wong) sets out to avenge his death and rid San Francisco of the corrupting influence of an evil man (Chuck Norris). This film was released to video under the title Karate Cop. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Enter the Dragon

Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Shih Kien, Bob Wall

Synopsis: One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee's career, Enter the Dragon achieved success by presenting a series of superbly staged fighting sequences with a minimum of distractions. The story finds Lee as a martial-arts expert determined to help capture Read More

Return of the Dragon

Actors: Tony Liu, Sho Kosugi, Ch'eng Pin Chih, Chu'eng Li, Huang Jen Chih, Liu Yun, Mali Sha, Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Malisa Longo, Robert Wall

Synopsis: Bruce Lee's pre-Enter the Dragon outing is a surprising change of pace from his usual hard-hitting action fare because it favors humor as much as it does kung-fu. It's also notable because it represents Lee's only venture as a director. For the most part, Return of the Dragon works thanks to its Read More

The Wrecking Crew

Actors: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan, Nigel Green

Synopsis: Cahiers du Cinema favorite Phil Karlson may have directed the "Matt Helm" extravaganza The Wrecking Crew, but the only "auteur" around these parts is star Dean Martin, coasting through yet another sexy spy romp. This time, secret agent Helm must prevent a billion-dollar gold hijacking Read More