Whereas audiences have not seen Chuck Norris headlining a film in a very long time, he was an enormous star again within the Nineteen Eighties, main classics like “Delta Power,” “Lacking in Motion,” and their sequels. Within the Nineteen Nineties he moved to tv in “Walker: Texas Ranger,” which advised the story of Sgt. Cordell Walker, a Texas Ranger, Vietnam veteran, and professional in nearly all the pieces, as a result of it is Chuck Norris. Within the present, he acts as a one-man combating drive in opposition to all method of dangerous guys, resulting in action-packed installments brimming with bare-knuckled brawls, thrilling shootouts, and hard-hitting automotive chases. And a type of scenes led to the demise of stuntman and driver William Charles Skeen.
It occurred in 1999 whereas cameras had been rolling on a automotive chase in Cedar Hill State Park. Skeen was driving a GMC Suburban whereas making a 140-foot leap by means of the air and crashing down with a devastating affect. However it wasn’t the stunt itself that killed him. Skeen suffered a deadly coronary heart assault throughout the capturing of the scene, which in any other case went off and not using a hitch. “It flew by means of the air like an eagle and did not do something bizarre,” police advised the Washington Publish, acknowledging that the stuntman’s security gear was all in good order.
When the truck landed, although, Skeen was rushed to a close-by hospital, the place he died of cardiac arrest. “We’re grief-stricken over our pal’s sudden and tragic demise,” star Chuck Norris, who additionally served because the present’s government producer, stated in an official assertion.