Dennis Weaver

ActorDirector Jun 4 (died age 81) Joplin, Missouri, USA 1948–2005 (57 year career)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Billy Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) 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 dir…

Known For

Film

Touch of Evil

Mirador Motel Night Manager

Film

Duel

David Mann

Film

Home on the Range

Abner (voice)

Film

Wildfire

Henry Ritter

Film

Gunsmoke

Chester

Film

Duel at Diablo

Willard Grange

Film

Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

Captain Farnsworth

Film

McCloud

Sam McCloud

Filmography

Acting (101)

Movies (63)

Home on the Range

as Abner (voice)

High Noon

as Mart Howe

The Virginian

as Sam Balaam

Submerged

as Buck Stevens

Escape from Wildcat Canyon

1998

as Grandpa Flint

7.2

Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

1997

as Captain Farnsworth

7.6

Seduction in a Small Town

as Sam Jenks

Two Bits & Pepper

as Sheriff Pratt

Greyhounds

as Chance Wayne

Mastergate

1992

as Vice President Dale Burden

2.0

Earth and the American Dream

1992

as Reader (voice)

6.7

Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1990

as Narrator

4.0

Dennis Weaver's Earthship

1990

The Return of Sam McCloud

1989

as Sam McCloud

6.0

Walking After Midnight

1988

as Self

Disaster at Silo 7

1988

as Sheriff Ben Harlen

6.3

Bluffing It

1987

as Jack Duggan

6.0

Amy Grant: Headin' Home for the Holidays

as Tom Miller

A Winner Never Quits

as Mr. Wyshner

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

1985

as Wally Johnson

4.0

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

as Eddie Gant

Don't Go to Sleep

as Phillip

The Day the Loving Stopped

1981

as Aaron Danner

Amber Waves

1980

as Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt

8.5

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

1980

as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

4.6

Stone

1979

as Daniel Ellis Stone

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

as Charles Bates

A Cry For Justice

as Sgt. Ted Bentley

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

1978

as Prof. Benjamin Fuller

4.0

The Islander

1978

as Gable McQueen

Intimate Strangers

1977

as Donald Halston

5.0

Female Artillery

1973

as Deke Chambers

Terror on the Beach

as Neil Glynn

Rolling Man

as Lonnie McAfee

The Great Man's Whiskers

1972

as Abraham Lincoln

The Forgotten Man

as Lt. Joe Hardy

Duel

as David Mann

What's the Matter with Helen?

as Lincoln Palmer

A Man Called Sledge

as Erwin Ward

Swing Out, Sweet Land

1970

as Self

6.0

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

1968

as Self

7.6

Mission Batangas

1968

as Chip Corbett

Gentle Giant

as Tom Wedloe

Duel at Diablo

as Willard Grange

Way... Way Out

as Hoffman

Gallegher Goes West

as George Tucker, the Sundown Kid

The Gallant Hours

1960

as Andy Lowe

6.7

Touch of Evil

1958

as Mirador Motel Night Manager

Seven Angry Men

as John Brown Jr.

Ten Wanted Men

as Sheriff Clyde Gibbons

Chief Crazy Horse

as Maj. Carlisle

Storm Fear

as Hank

Dragnet

as Capt. R.A. Lohrman

Dangerous Mission

as Ranger clerk

War Arrow

as Pino

Law and Order

as Frank Durling

The Redhead from Wyoming

1953

as Matt Jessup

6.1

The Man from the Alamo

1953

as Tennessean (uncredited)

6.5

The Mississippi Gambler

as Julian Contant

The Golden Blade

Column South

as Menguito

The Lawless Breed

as Jim Clements

Horizons West

as Dandy Taylor

Television (38)

Wildfire

2005

as Henry Ritter

8.4

Family Law

1999

as Judge Richard Lloyd

8.2

E! True Hollywood Story

Touched by an Angel

as Emmett Rivers

Lonesome Dove: The Series

1994

as Buffalo Bill Cody

6.9

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

1990

6.8

The Simpsons

1989

as Buck McCoy (voice)

Buck James

as Dr. Buck James

Emerald Point N.A.S.

as Rear Adm. Thomas Mallory

Magnum, P.I.

as Lacy Fletcher

Stone

as Det. Sgt. Daniel Stone

Centennial

as R.J. Poteet

Pearl

as Col. Jason Forrest

5.5

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

as Self

Cher

as Self - Guest

Police Story

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

1973

as Self

6.3

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Pet Set

as Self

McCloud

as Sam McCloud

The Don Knotts Show

as Self

The Name of the Game

as Walter Grayson

Gentle Ben

as Tom Wedloe

Judd for the Defense

That Girl

Kentucky Jones

as Kentucky Jones

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Combat!

as Noah

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

Dr. Kildare

as Wayne Wandemeir

The Twilight Zone

as Adam Grant

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Charles Cavender

Gunsmoke

as Chester

Climax!

as Steve Maclyn

Dragnet

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Ben

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (3)

Television (3)

McCloud

Director

Gentle Ben

Director

Gunsmoke

Director