- Was considered for the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon.
- Norton was a former bodyguard for Rod Stewart, James Taylor, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac and other famous personalities.
- Recently received his Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under instructor Jean Jacques Machado.
- Linda Ronstadt is one of the rock music stars who encouraged him to pursue work as an actor in the movies.
- Trained gold medalist Kurt Thomas in martial arts for their film together, Gymkata (1985), and worked as one of the movie's fight choreographers.
- Fighting Stars Magazine ranked Norton's climactic fight with Chuck Norris in The Octagon (1980) as #13 on its list of the 25 greatest fight scenes of all time.
- Accomplished martial artist
- Did extensive television work in the 1990s as guest star, second unit director and stunt coordinator on the syndicated series The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997).
- He directs his signature line, "Painful?", in his early films to fight opponents downed by his punch including Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, his co-star and director in several Hong Kong-based productions.
- He lost 18 pounds while shooting a fight scene with Sammo Kam-Bo Hung that took three weeks to complete in Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985), aka "Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars".
- Has a twin sister named Pamela, and an older brother named Adrian.
- Two Australian-based martial arts films that Richard Norton surprisingly did not appear in given his connections to the Australian martial arts scene in the 1970s were "Stoner" in the Australian-filmed sequences and "The Man from Hong Kong" (though he appeared as himself in 1977's "ABBA: The Movie").
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