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Dennis Weaver

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American actor (1924-2006)

United StatesActorsLived 1924 to 2006 · aged 81
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Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006.

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Weaver as Chester, Milburn Stone as Doc, and Amanda Blake as Kitty in Gunsmoke, 1960Weaver as Chester, Milburn Stone as Doc, and Amanda Blake as Kitty in Gunsmoke, 1960Weaver and Mariette Hartley on the set of Gunsmoke, 1962Weaver and Mariette Hartley on the set of Gunsmoke, 1962Weaver in 2000Weaver in 2000

Filmography 40

Duel1971 · ★ 7.4
Home on the Range2004 · ★ 6.1
Touch of Evil1958 · ★ 7.7
Duel at Diablo1966 · ★ 6.3
The Man from the Alamo1953
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts1997
What's the Matter with Helen?1971
A Man Called Sledge1970
Law and Order1953
Don't Go to Sleep1982
Ten Wanted Men1955
Chief Crazy Horse1955
War Arrow1953
Dragnet1954
Horizons West1952
The Golden Blade1953
The Gallant Hours1960
The Lawless Breed1952
Storm Fear1955
Way... Way Out1966
Dangerous Mission1954
Submerged2000
The Redhead from Wyoming1953
The Mississippi Gambler1953
Column South1953
Two Bits & Pepper1995
The Virginian2000
High Noon2000
Terror on the Beach1973
Seven Angry Men1955
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd1980
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction1983
Escape from Wildcat Canyon1998
Swing Out, Sweet Land1970
Disaster at Silo 71988
A Winner Never Quits1986
The Dean Martin Christmas Show1968
Earth and the American Dream1992
The Forgotten Man1971
Seduction in a Small Town1997

106 credits on file

Television 24

The Simpsons1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962
The Mike Douglas Show1961
Magnum, P.I.1980
The Twilight Zone1959
Touched by an Angel1994
Dragnet1951
Combat!1962
The Merv Griffin Show1962
Wildfire2005
Climax!1954
Dr. Kildare1961
Gunsmoke1955
Captain Planet and the Planeteers1990
The Name of the Game1968
The Ed Sullivan Show1948
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
McCloud1970
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries1977
That Girl1966
Family Law1999
Police Story1973
Centennial1978
Judd, for the Defense1967

Awards 3

1987Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award
1959Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Connected to Dennis 6

CoolioAlso in Submerged (2000)Joe PiscopoAlso in Two Bits & Pepper (1995)Audie MurphyAlso in Column South (1953)Piper LaurieAlso in Dangerous Mission (1954)Maureen O'HaraAlso in The Redhead from Wyoming (1953)Susan DeyAlso in Terror on the Beach (1973)

About this person

Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958).

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1924 to 2006 · aged 81
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