Weaver, Dennis

Weaver, Dennis
▪ 2007

      American actor (b. June 4, 1924, Joplin, Mo.—d. Feb. 24, 2006, Ridgway, Colo.), first became famous for his portrayal from 1955 to 1964 of the limping deputy Chester Goode, Marshal Matt Dillon's sidekick, in the long-running television series Gunsmoke, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1959. Among the other eight TV series in which he starred were Gentle Ben (1967–69), in which he was a park ranger with a pet bear, and McCloud (1970–77), in which he played a New Mexico lawman causing mayhem while solving crimes in New York City. Notable among his 40 film leads were roles in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) and the Steven Spielberg made-for-TV thriller Duel (1971).

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