Martial arts champion and action legend Chuck Norris, who starred in the TV show Walker, Texas Ranger following a run of hit movies, has died at 86.

Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris, the martial-arts master turned action icon who died Wednesday in Hawaii, had strong ties to the South Bay, launching his show-business career on the wave of martial arts championships and a half-dozen popular karate studios.

WITH his old-school patriotism and all-American action movies in which he punched, kicked and blasted his way across cinema screens, Chuck Norris invented the monosyllabic hard men heroes that

They include such films as “The Karate Kid,” “Clueless” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” alongside six silent films that date back all the way to 1896. The films were selected for “their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance,” library ...

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative aspect of cinema and will happily rave about her favorite ...

In a 1990 interview, Chuck Norris recalled how he landed a role as a bodyguard in the 1968 film "The Wrecking Crew."