Peter Goffin

Chuck Norris.

Karate master turned action star turned internet meme.

Chuck Norris remained a hero of B-list pop culture for more than five decades.

He gained entry to Hollywood as a martial arts teacher to the stars, including Steve McQueen, who recommended Norris try acting himself.

Norris landed his first substantial role in 1972 in the cult classic kung fu film Way of the Dragon, squaring off against Bruce Lee in an epic eight-minute fight scene.

but it was the explosion of low-budget action films in the 1980s that turned Norris into a star, using roundhouse kicks and usually a machine gun to fight injustice.

Films like Delta Force and Missing in Action were generally panned by the critics, but loved by fans of cheesy action movies.

Time magazine once called Norris the most successful, really terrible actor of his generation.

Norris' fame peaked with the television program Walker Texas Ranger, which ran for eight series ending in 2001.

But some five years later, he enjoyed a career resurgence, thanks to the internet phenomenon of Chuck Norris Facts.

Tongue-in-cheek claims about Norris' prowess as an all-American tough guy.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books.

He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Norris parlayed the online jokes into a lucrative business that included TV appearances, a book, even a computer game.

However outlandish, the facts only slightly exaggerated the character Norris had always played, that of a hard-punching but unshakably moral man, standing up for good in the face of evil.

And... Dragon, SpaceX, we see splashdown.

On behalf of SpaceX and NASA, welcome home, crew 11.

Dragon, SpaceX, we see splashdown.

SpaceX copies and we see the same.

Mains cut.