Walker, Texas Ranger - "The Final Showdown: Part 2" - 1:00 pm Thursday, October 23 on KIII get (Great Entertainment Television)

Chuck Norris (Actor) .. Cordell Walker/Hayes Cooper

Born: March 10, 1940
Birthplace: Ryan, Oklahoma, United States

Trivia: Born Carlos Ray Norris, Chuck Norris served in Korea in the Army. While there, he studied karate and later became the World Middleweight Karate Champion. He was encouraged by one of his karate students, actor Steve McQueen, to go into acting. He debuted onscreen in the enormously popular Bruce Lee vehicle Enter the Dragon (1973); since the death of Lee he has been the screen's premier martial arts star. He has appeared primarily in militaristic movies in which he single-handedly kills many enemies. His breakthrough film was Missing in Action (1984), in which he played an ex-POW in search of American prisoners still held in Vietnam.

Sheree J. Wilson (Actor) .. Alex Cahill/Althea Cooper

Judson Mills (Actor) .. Gage/Jud Weaver

Born: May 10, 1969
Birthplace: Washington, DC

Nia Peeples (Actor) .. Sydney/Opal Starling

Born: December 10, 1961
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Trivia: Received a scholarship to UCLA but dropped out after just one semester to pursue a career in entertainment. Before embarking on her Hollywood career she was a featured member of the renowned performance troupe the Young Americans. Released her debut dance-pop album, Nothin' But Trouble, in 1988. Hosted a short-lived late-night musical variety show, The Party Machine With Nia Peeples, which was executive produced by Arsenio Hall. Volunteers for the American Heart Association and in 2011 participated in the AHA's "Go Red for Women Stiletto Strut" in Glendale, CA.

Tammy Townsend (Actor) .. Erika Carter

Born: August 17, 1970

Trivia: Tammy Townsend spent most of her career guest starring and playing the occasional recurring roles on television shows. She was a regular on the short-lived series Divas. Her television credits include appearances on Family Matters, Living Single, In the Heat of the Night, and Quantum Leap. She made her film debut with a small role in Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats and had her first major role in the John Leguizamo showcase The Pest (1996).

William Sanderson (Actor) .. Mayor

Born: January 10, 1944
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Trivia: Gangly American character actor William Sanderson has done all right by himself in "Bubba" roles. He was seen in such bucolic characterizations as Lee Dollarhide in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Sleets in Rocketeer (1989), Zeke in Wagons East (1994), and Lippy in the first two Lonesome Dove TV miniseries. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s as one-third of the backwoods trio Larry, Daryl and Daryl on the TV sitcom Newhart (1982-90); Sanderson was Larry, the interpreter for his two tight-lipped, dull-witted siblings. Despite the illusion created by his specialty, Sanderson is no hayseed. Following his military discharge, Sanderson graduated from Memphis State University and after that became a law student until the acting bug bit and led him to drop out of school to launch a successful theater career in New York; Sanderson moved into television and feature films. As a change of pace, William Sanderson was heard as urbane, authoritative robotmaster Karl Rossum in the daily Fox TV Network attraction Batman: The Animated Series (1992). In 1998, William Sanderson co-starred opposite Beau Bridges in the satirical television series Maximum Bob.

Vijay Amritraj (Actor) .. Doctor

Born: December 14, 1953
Birthplace: Madras, India

Randall 'Tex' Cobb (Actor)

Born: January 01, 1954

Trivia: Fearsome American ex-boxer Randall "Tex" Cobb, in films from 1983, can usually be found playing born-to-raise-hell characters with names like Box, Wolf, Swede, or simply Big Harry Con. A godsend to comedy films, Cobb has menaced Chevy Chase in Fletch Lives (1985), Jim Varney in Ernest Goes to Jail (1990), Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1993), and Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994). Perhaps Randall "Tex" Cobb's nastiest cinematic alter ego was Leonard Smalls, the "Lone Biker of the Apocalypse" in the Coen brothers' Raising Arizona (1987).

Clarence Gilyard Jr (Actor) .. James Trivette/Linus Hardesty

Born: December 24, 1955
Birthplace: Moses Lake, Washington

Leon Rippy (Actor)

Born: October 30, 1949
Birthplace: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Trivia: A veteran actor with a charming drawl, South Carolina native Leon Rippy began his acting career in the early '80s, making very minor appearances in very big films, like a store clerk in The Color Purple and an FBI agent in Firestarter. Rippy would continue to appear in several projects over the coming years, often taking on a number of roles every year. He notably played a prosecutor in 1988's Illegally Yours, and an Army sergeant in 1990's Moon 44, one of seven collaborations Rippy would make with director Roland Emmerich. The '90s would find the actor just as active as ever, appearing in the usual plethora of movies and TV shows, including high-profile appearances in 2000's The Patriot and on the series Walker, Texas Ranger. The new millennium would bring even more prominent work for the now silver-haired actor, with a starring role on the HBO western series Deadwood, which Rippy would appear on from 2004 to 2006. He soon took on another starring role on the police drama Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, playing Earl, a tough-talking, tobacco-spitting messenger from God. Although he was away from screens for nearly a half-decade after Saving Grace came to an end, he returned in the Johnny Depp project The Lone Ranger.

Matthew Clark (Actor)

Born: November 25, 1936

Marla Adams (Actor)

Marshall R. Teague (Actor) .. Emile Lavocat/Milos Lavocat

Angie Bolling (Actor)

Michael Costello (Actor)

Steve Flanagin (Actor)

Robert Fuller (Actor)

Born: July 29, 1933
Birthplace: Troy, New York, United States

Trivia: Robert Fuller spent his first decade in show business trying his best to avoid performing. After his film debut in 1952's Above and Beyond, Fuller studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse but never exhibited any real dedication. He tried to become a dancer but gave that up as well, determining that dancing was "sissified." Fuller rose to nominal stardom fairly rapidly in the role of Jess Harper on the popular TV western Laramie (1959-63). Once he found his niche in cowboy attire, he stuck at it in another series, Wagon Train, turning down virtually all offers for "contemporary" roles. When westerns began dying out on television in the late 1960s, Fuller worked as a voiceover actor in commercials, earning some $65,000 per year (a tidy sum in 1969). On the strength of his performance in the Burt Topper-directed motorcycle flick The Hard Ride, Fuller was cast by producer Jack Webb as chief paramedic Kelly Brackett on the weekly TVer Emergency, which ran from 1972 through 1977. In 1994, Robert Fuller was one of several former TV western stars who showed up in cameo roles in the Mel Gibson movie vehicle Maverick.

John Dennis Johnston (Actor)

Born: November 10, 1945

Richard Norton (Actor)

Born: January 06, 1950

Carey Scott (Actor)

Born: June 21, 1965

Robert Wall (Actor)

Born: August 22, 1939

Aaron Norris (Actor)

Born: November 23, 1951

Walker, Texas Ranger: The Final Showdown: Part 2

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Today on KIII get (Great Entertainment Television) (3.8)

The Final Showdown: Part 2

Season 9, Episode 24