List of Walker, Texas Ranger characters
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This is a list of characters from the TV-series Walker, Texas Ranger.
Main characters
Cordell Walker
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Chuck Norris | 1-8 and Trial by Fire | 198 |
Cordell Walker is the protagonist of the TV-series, as Texas Ranger Sgt. Cordell Walker, a former Marine Captain with an elite recon unit and a modern-day Ranger who believes in the Code of the Old West. He is a decorated Vietnam vet and a martial arts expert. He is the show's main protagonist. Appeared in all seasons. In the reserve, the young Cordell lived a hard life, especially with some comrades who beat him, until one day intervened Billy Grey Wolf, who defended Walker and with whom the ranger became a "blood brother." As an adult, after winning a world championship kickboxing Cordell he enlisted in the U.S. Marines leaving for Vietnam. On his return he joined the body of the Texas rangers as a sergeant and earning numerous honors. In the eighth season, is combined with the ADA (assistant district attorney) Alex Cahill. In the TV movie Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial By Fire we note that for a while 'time the Rangers won the role of captain.
At the age of about 12 years saw his parents murdered (the guilty will be arrested in an episode of the series) and then was given to a relative Cherokee, "Uncle Ray." In the reserve proved to have the powers:
His name in Cherokee language is Washoe, which means "lone eagle".
He's a world champion in kickboxing and is a close friend of his colleague James Trivette. He became engaged to, and married, the deputy district attorney Alex (Alexandra) Cahill with whom he had a daughter, Angela. Sometimes he presentiments due to his intuition Cherokee, which are always correct. In addition to martial arts, Walker is proficient in rodeo shows and individual episodes apparently limitless resources, guide helicopters and airplanes, replacing a Formula One driver and resolves various types of disasters. Despite the physical skills and moral soundness (expanded in the Chuck Norris Facts), which shows in most of the episodes, is sometimes saved or at least helped by Trivette or other characters, also falls into depression episode momentary escape into the bush, and in the vision where, blinded, think of resigning from the ranger.
Walker has some occasional reports in the early seasons of the series, as in the episode The right man at the wrong time, where he falls in love with a singer, and defending her from her ex-husband, is also hit by a veterinarian in a veterinary leg confiding uncle Ray. These adventures end when he became engaged to Alex. Blind Fury episode it turns out that the ranger was about to get married ten years ago, but his girlfriend (Ellen) was killed in an ambush. Upset from it happening, Cordell had never told anyone about (the affair is in fact told by CD) and only at the end of the episode, after re-arrested the culprit, he manages to blow off steam with Alex.
James Trivette
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Clarence Gilyard | 1–8, Trial by Fire (cameo) | 174 |
James Trivette, commonly known as Jimmy, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and has an older brother named Simon, who appears in the episode Brothers in Arms. As a young man was a famous football player, was part of the team of the Dallas Cowboys. He later entered the Texas Rangers and became a colleague of Walker in the first episode of the series, One Riot, One Ranger in Fort Worth. Trivette takes the place of former colleague was killed. However, in the episode Till death do us part, in which Walker ends up in a coma and his friends speak to him trying to wake it up, it turns out their first meeting had taken place during a riot in Florida, trying to calm the crowd, Trivette likely to finish some killed, but was saved by his future colleague. The gruff character of Walker makes it difficult to their initial report and Trivette must work hard to gain his respect and trust, and later become good friends. Trivette is very computer savvy but sometimes mocks the fact that Walker knows more about him without the use of technology. With C.D. Parker sometimes has some quarrels about his chili but it's still his best friend.
Trivette shows great professionalism and commitment to his work as a ranger, but being the shoulder of the protagonist, is generally less skilled than Walker highlighting the qualities of his colleague, on several occasion is indeed injured and Walker complete the mission without him. Being quite touchy, it is sometimes the butt of jokes by Walker or CDs, or is involuntarily involved in comic scenes of various kinds. On the other hand, Trivette gets a bigger role in a few episodes in which Walker was forced to walk away, and is the star of the episodes. He also had faced a legal problems, in which he is accused of having pocketed part of the spoils of a robbery, and in The Hands of God where 'apparently injured a little boy during a shootout, and in both cases, Walker never loses his faith in the innocence of his colleague and Trivette is proven innocent at the end of both episodes.
Trivette is single in most of the series, despite occasional reports in some episodes, such as Behind the badge when he falls for a journalist, but it must move elsewhere, or The Angel of Death Angel finds that, his girlfriend in high school, but, finding that diventatata is a killer. Angel also dies at the end of the episode. In the last episode of the series, Trivette meets an old girlfriend Erika (who previously appeared in the episode "Justice Delayed") and they decide to get married despite some initial doubts when Trivette is nearly killed by the suspect who marked him as a target.
Alexandra Cahill
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Sheree J. Wilson | 1–8, Trial by Fire | 186 |
Alex is a deputy district attorney, her past is told by herself in a few episodes, such as The Revenge of a sheriff and other: she grew up with her mother (later died), and has had clashes with her father and later with her first husband . This necessity of fighting has affected her character, making it very specific. Alex has a great passion for her work, which sometimes puts her in danger, as in various episodes from her convicted criminals who escaped or were released and later try to kill her for revenge. On other occasions, is taken hostage by criminals to lure into a trap Walker, but remains unharmed because the rangers regularly save her, sometimes helped by the other characters. On the other hand, Alex takes care of Walker when he was injured and collaborates with ranger providing them with mandates and permits. The episode Family reasons, Alex manages to return to duty Walker and Trivette, suspended from an FBI agent Alex is very helpful with the other characters even though sometimes stubborn. Walker shares with her a passion for horses and for the protection of minors.
Alex at the beginning of the series is just a friend of the protagonist and the two together to work, despite having had a fight at their first meeting, in which Walker was witness to a process of Alex and she doubted that the ranger had been able to stop criminals from only 7 . Alex is involved with another man in the episode Revenge of a sheriff, but later became Walker's girlfriend and the two are getting married at the end of the seventh season. Become pregnant in the eighth season and has a daughter, named Angela, the last episode
Alex has different interests and stakes in individual joins the ranger struggles of various kinds, but in particular is committed to women's rights. In various episodes helps women victims of sexual assault or assaulted by their husbands / partners. This passion for feminism is variously explained in the series. Free as the air in the episode Alex says that her friend was killed by her partner, while in the aforementioned Texas against Alex Cahill is forced to admit that her former boyfriend, under the influence of drugs, had assaulted years earlier. In the sixth season Alex decides that her work as a deputy prosecutor is not enough to help others and also founded a community center, called HOPE (Help Our People Excel) on the advice of Walker, where she helps children and young people in trouble.
Francis Gage
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judson Mills | 7-8 and Trial by Fire | 46 | Countdown |
Francis Gage is a Texas Ranger and makes his first appearance in the second episode of the seventh season of the series, Countdown. Since then he works with the team of Walker and Trivette, paired with Sydney Cooke. He is very skilled in combat and he never learned to cook. In the episode "Tall Cotton" it is revealed that he has a sister, Julie, who is a journalist. Between Gage and Sydney, there are a lot of similarities, so much so that in some episodes they are almost ready to declare. In the episode "Without Sound", Gage loses his hearing and Sydney helped him to cope with this disability until he regained his hearing at the end of the episode. This episode displayed the closeness of their duo.
Sydney Cooke
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nia Peeples | 7-8 | 47 | Countdown |
Sydney is a Texas Ranger among the protagonists of the series Walker, Texas Ranger. Appears in the second episode of the seventh season in tandem with the Ranger Francis Gage. She's a very skilled in combat and able to defend herself very well. Although sometimes she is captured by criminals, there are several occasions she turns the tables and has to save Gage. Sydney sometimes uses disguises and her charm to attract criminals, but she is single and complains about it occasionally. Sydney mentions in "Wedding Bells Part 2" that she is 32.
C.D. Parker
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gailard Sartain (pilot episode only) Noble Willingham |
1-7 | 141 | A Matter of Faith |
In the eighties, C.D. was a Texas Ranger, and after a long period where he was captain of the rangers as well. He was also partnered with Walker when Walker first joined the Texas Rangers. In the show, he is retired and owns a restaurant in Texas called "C.D.'s Bar and Grill". C.D. aids the rangers throughout the series in their fight against crime and helps put many criminals behind bars.
C.D. Parker dies in a season eight episode titled, "The Avenging Angel" when Walker receives a phone call saying that C.D. had died of a heart attack while on a fishing trip. In the series finale, it is revealed that C.D. actually died of poisoning and the symptoms presented as a heart attack.
Raymond Firewalker
| Portrayed by | Seasons | No. of episodes | Final appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd Westerman (Pilot episode-Season 1) Apesanahkwat (Season 2) |
Pilot Season-Season 2 | 16 | On Deadly Ground |
Ray in the series plays the uncle of the protagonist, Cordell Walker. It is the only relatives that remained in Walker when his parents died. He has grown and raised in the Indian reservation, where Walker grew up learning the traditions of the tribe. His uncle gave him the name of Washoe which means Aquila lonely. Walker's uncle has always been a very friendly and very serious with Walker, although he had not agreed on the choice of his brother to marry a woman who was not Cherokee. Much of the story so far reported is told by Lucas Walker in double episode where the ranger takes custody of an orphan child. Ray lives in the reserve but often staying on the ranch of Walker. Rather old at the beginning of the series, Ray has an active role in the stories but dispenses advice to his nephew and the other characters. He died of a heart attack while in the Indian reservation; reappears in a few episodes in which Walker recalls and recounts his childhood, played by another actor but as a young man.
Recurring characters
- Trent Malloy (James Wlcek) son of a pastor and former martial arts student of Walker. Black belt in Karate and runs both his own Dojo and Protection Agency. Appeared in 13 episodes and appeared in spin-off called Sons of Thunder that was cancelled after 6 episodes.
- Tommy Malloy (Shane Meier) the younger brother of Trent. Also a student of Walker.
- Carlos Sandoval (Marco Sanchez) a detective for Dallas PD. Best friend of Trent Malloy. Often teamed up with Walker and Trivette in cases. Appeared in 16 episodes and appeared in spin-off called Sons of Thunder that was cancelled after 6 episodes..
- Joey Prado (John Haymes Newton) a kick-boxer and student of Walkers' who becomes a police officer.
- Maisie Whitman (Gwen Verdon) made her first appearance in Forgotten People; she is a new friend C.D. made while undercover at a nursing home whose doctors are suspected of testing illegal Alzheimer's drugs on their elderly patients (so they could find a cure for the disease to make a large profit for themselves). While the rangers sent C.D. in undercover after a friend of Trivette's was killed by the doctors while trying to tell him what was happening there, Maisie went undercover following the death of a friend of hers who had Alzheimer's disease. Before the doctors could give C.D. and Maisie the fatal drugs they used on Trivette's friend after they are caught looting the testing room, C.D. was able to alert Walker and Trivette via a secret transmitter hidden in a bible, who then brought the doctors down. She later appears in Mind Games, where her son, Brian dies, and C.D. decides to investigate what happened noticing some strange occurrences around Brian's death, discovering he was murdered by his treacherous wife Caroline and her secret boyfriend Peter when he found out they were stealing from their family's trust fund, and trying to drug Maisie to make her appear incompetent so they could gain full control over the trust fund. Though they were captured before C.D. could sneak Maisie out of there, it was only thanks to Alex alerting Walker and Trivette to the situation that they were saved and the situation was resolved.
- Josie Martin (Vanessa Paul) Ran 'H.O.P.E.' center created by Alex after a near-death experience. Did not play a major role in her appearances.
- White Eagle (Frank Salsedo) the spiritual leader and faith healer of the Cherokee reservation Walker grew up on, who often aids Walker in spiritual matters. Debuted during Season 3.
- Gordon Cahill (Rod Taylor) the once-estranged father of Alex who works as a Defense Attorney. His alcoholism had driven a wedge between him and Alex. In Redemption, he defends a crime boss named Karl Mayes that Alex is prosecuting though after Mayes has a witness in protective custody killed, his ethics as a lawyer cause him to quit out of disgust. Gordon later becomes a key witness and helps Alex convict Mayes after Mayes tried to have him killed. Despite his estrangement from his daughter, he loves his daughter and works on rebuilding his relationship with her and at the end of that episode agrees to go into an alcohol treatment program. In Texas vs. Cahill, Gordon defends Alex when she is framed for murder of her ex-lover Tony Seville and together with Walker and Trivette, suspected that Lane Tillman, Seville's boss that Alex had been prosecuting framed her in an attempt to avoid a re-trial by trying to use Seville's connection to Alex to assert double jeopardy. Gordon later represents Alex's cellmate, Alfree Grimes, who is later freed and reunited with her daughter. Gordon later attends his daughter's wedding in Wedding Bells despite having been injured earlier by the assassin that tried to kill Alex.
- Sam Coyote (Eloy Casados) the sheriff of the Cherokee reservation and a very good friend of Walker.
- Tom Price (James Druy) he only appeared during the pilot season.
- Charlie Brooks (Terry Kiser) A wise cracking former mob accountant and witness who Walker protected from hitmen in Mayday. is later given community service in Last Hope, where he helps Walker mentor a group of at risk teens. In Iceman, it is revealed that he bears a similar resemblance to the wanted explosives expert Maxwell Kronert, known by his nickname "the Iceman" (this is not surprising, as Kiser played the Iceman in a dual role). Walker, Trivette and FBI Agent Doug Foster ask him for help in impersonating Kronert in an effort to capture mob boss George Vickers while the real Iceman is recovering in the hospital following an explosive high-speed chase, accidentally killing his wheelman in the process. Wanting to get out of his community service following the events of Last Hope, he agrees. The plan seemed to work out perfectly, until he loses the tracking device Walker used on him; it soon went from bad to worse when the Iceman escaped from the hospital.
- Jack "Soldier" Belmont A homeless veteran who lived on the street with his dog, Lucky. After he becomes a witness to the murder of a local pastor, Walker is aided by Lucky in finding his owner who Walker later helps reunite with his family. In Small Blessings, Soldier and Lucky help Walker track down two orphans who ran away from their foster parents after mistakenly believing they could only afford to keep one of them and ran away to avoid being split up. Soldier later defends the children from a group of criminals after the children end up witnessing a murder and together with Walker returns them to their foster parents.
- Master Rin (John Fujioka) A Buddhist monk and friend of Lama Dolgin who seeks to find the Lama's reincarnation, a young boy named Davey. Appears in Higher Power and Warriors.
- Davey (Sean Carberry) A young boy who is the reincarnation of Lama Dolgin who Master Rin had been seeking. Walker helps Master Rin defend Davey from Chang who is the reincarnation of a man who wants revenge on Lama Dolgin. After saving Davey, the boy goes with Master Rin to live in a Buddhist monastery. Davey returns to Texas with Master Rin as he feels his mother is in danger and Walker finds she has gone missing. It is discovered that while his mother was working as a geneticist, she discovered that Davey has a unique DNA that gives him a form of rapid healing, a discover that a group wishes to use to create an army of genetically superior soldiers. Walker works to rescue Davey's mother from the group while protecting Davey from the groups genetically modified super soldier. Appears in Higher Power and Warriors.
- Roberta "Bobbie" Hunt (Tammy Lauren) A Fort Worth, Texas police officer who becomes a candidate for the Texas Rangers in 99th Ranger, after a Ranger is killed in a shootout. A single mother who in the past was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband. Walker encourages her to continue when she tries to give up on becoming a Ranger, after her violent ex-husband threatens her and her child. She later becomes the 99th Ranger. In A Father's Image, she goes undercover as a tutor for the young son of a crime boss to gather evidence on his illegal activities.
- Alfree Grimes (Silvia Moore) Alex's cellmate in Texas vs. Cahill who befriends Alex and protects Alex from the other inmates. She reveals to Alex she was single mother who was wrongfully imprisoned for drugs found in her car that where not hers and given hard time. After being cleared for murder, Alex convinces her father to take Alfree's case and she is eventually released from prison and is reunited with her daughter. In A Woman's Place, Alfree gets a job as a construction worker and is appalled by the unsafe construction practices, as her father had been killed years earlier in a construction accident due unsafe practices. She becomes a whistle blower after she is blamed for an accident that injures her coworker friend. This puts her, her daughter, and her mother in danger from the small group of construction workers responsible for the unsafe practices and the accident that injured her friend. With Walker and Alex's help, they are brought down. She later gets a job as a building inspector.
- Doug Foster (Charles Homet) is an FBI Agent who has oftentimes assisted the rangers in high-profile cases.
- Rhonda Guitre (Ely Pouget)
- Dr. Brown (Todd Terry)
- Ranger Randy (Kirk Griffith)