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UPDATED with more reactions:<\/strong> Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren and Stephen King are among those paying tribute to Chuck Norris, the veteran action film and Walker, Texas Ranger star, who died Thursday at age 86<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cChuck was an icon,\u201d Schwarzenegger wrote on X today. \u201cI am grateful that I was able to work with him in multiple ways over the years, from promoting fitness to sharing the screen together. He was a badass, in real life and in Hollywood. His legend will be with us forever. My thoughts are with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Schwarzenegger appeared in the action-hero Expendables franchise with Norris, specifically in The Expendables 2 in 2012.<\/p>\n Stallone and Lundgren also worked with Norris The Expendables 2, which was directed by Stallone.<\/p>\n RELATED: Trump Reacts To Chuck Norris\u2019 Death: \u201cA Great Supporter\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI had a great time working with Chuck,\u201d Stallone wrote in Instagram. \u201cHe was All American in every way. Great man and my condolences to his wonderful family.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cChuck Norris is the champ, wrote Lundgren on Instagram. \u201cEver since I was a young martial artist and later getting into movies, I always looked up to him as a role model. Someone who had the respect, humility and strength it takes to be a man. We will miss you, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n While the two never appeared together in films, a young Van Damme trained with Norris for nearly two years in martial arts in the early 1980s before his acting career began to take off.<\/p>\n \u201cDeepest condolences on the passing of my friend, Chuck Norris,\u201d Van Damme wrote on Instagram alongside a photo montage of the two. \u201cWe knew each other from my early days, and I always respected the man he was. My heart and prayers are with his family. He will never be forgotten. \ud83e\udd4b\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\udc94\u201d<\/p>\n Stephen King appreciated Norris\u2019 online memes and jokes, writing on X on separate posts, \u201cMy fave Chuck Norris joke: Chuck doesn\u2019t flush the toilet, he scares the shit out of it.\u201d\u00a0In another he wrote,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWhen he was born, Chuck Norris drove his mother home from the hospital.\u201d He added in another<\/a>, \u201cSeriously, I thought he was great. SILENT RAGE scared hell out of my boys\u2026and me.\u201d<\/p>\n Actor Lorenzo Lamas also paid tribute to Norris, admiring the actor for his skill in martial arts. Lamas trained at a Los Angeles martial arts studio that was part of the Chuck Norris network.<\/p>\n \u201cMy prayers to Gina, Aaron and family. Watch out evil world, there is an angel of consequence at the gates. Chuck Norris doesn\u2019t just get wings, he gets even,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UPDATED with more reactions: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren and Stephen King are among those paying tribute to Chuck Norris, the veteran action film and Walker, Texas Ranger star, who died Thursday at age 86. \u201cChuck was an icon,\u201d Schwarzenegger wrote on X today. \u201cI am grateful that I was able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[317505,437618,310043,411069,52282,23943],"class_list":["post-2339383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-chuck-norris","tag-dolph-lundgren","tag-jean-claude-van-damme","tag-stephen-king","tag-sylvester-stallone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tributes-From-Fellow-Action-Stars-Arnold-Schwarzengger-Jean-Claude-Van-Damme.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339385,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339383\/revisions\/2339385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}