Dennis Weaver

Oyuncu Doğum: 1924-06-04 • Joplin, Missouri, USA

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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 director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958). Weaver was born June 4, 1924, in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Walter Leon "Doc" Weaver and his wife Lenna Leora (née Prather). Weaver wanted to be an actor from childhood. He lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, for several years and for a short time in Manteca, California. He studied at Joplin Junior College, then transferred to the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where he studied drama and was a track star, setting records in several events. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the United States Navy, flying Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft. After the war, he married Gerry Stowell (his childhood sweetheart), with whom he had three children. Under the name Billy D. Weaver, he tried out for the 1948 U.S. Olympic team in the decathlon, finishing sixth behind 17-year-old high school track star Bob Mathias. However, only the top three finishers were selected. Weaver later commented, "I did so poorly [in the Olympic Trials], I decided to ... stay in New York and try acting. Career Weaver's first role on Broadway came as an understudy to Lonny Chapman as Turk Fisher in Come Back, Little Sheba. He eventually took over the role from Chapman in the national touring company. Solidifying his choice to become an actor, Weaver enrolled in the Actors Studio, where he met Shelley Winters. In the beginning of his acting career, he supported his family by doing odd jobs, including selling vacuum cleaners, tricycles, and women's hosiery. In 1952, Shelley Winters helped him get a contract from Universal Studios. He made his film debut that same year in the movie The Redhead from Wyoming. Over the next three years, he played in a series of movies, but still had to work odd jobs to support his family. In 1955 he appeared in an episode of The Lone Ranger "The Tell-Tale Bullet", which is viewable on YouTube. While delivering flowers, he heard he had landed the role of Chester Goode, the limping, loyal assistant of Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) on the new television series Gunsmoke. It was his big break; the show went on to become the highest-rated and longest-running live action series in United States television history (1955 to 1975), an honor now held by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 1970, Weaver landed the title role in the NBC series McCloud, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations. The show, about a modern Western lawman who ends up in New York City, was loosely based on the Clint Eastwood film Coogan's Bluff. Weaver married Gerry Stowell after World War II, and they had three sons: Richard, Robert, and Rustin Weaver. Gerry died April 26, 2016, at 90. Death Weaver died from prostate cancer at his home in Ridgway, Colorado, on February 24, 2006, at age 81. CLR

Dennis Weaver

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Female Artillery

Stone

Walking After Midnight

A Cry for Justice

The Don Knotts Show

Amber Waves

Gentle Giant

Alacakaranlık Kuşağı

Wildfire

E! True Hollywood Story

Family Law

Simpsonlar

The Great Man's Whiskers

Mission Batangas

Combat!

Alfred Hitchcock Sunar

Bitmeyen Balayı

The Forgotten Man

Centennial

Judd, for the Defense

Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Day the Loving Stopped

Stone

Düello

Escape from Wildcat Canyon

Magnum, P.I.

Touched by an Angel

McCloud

The Mississippi Gambler

7. Silo Faciası

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

A Winner Never Quits

Seduction in a Small Town

The Return of Sam McCloud

The Islander

Greyhounds

Police Story

Kentucky Jones

Cher

The Name of the Game

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

The Merv Griffin Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Golden Blade

The Lawless Breed

The Gallant Hours

Earth and the American Dream

Gunsmoke

Gentle Ben

The Pet Set

Alamo Kalesindeki Adam

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

Rolling Man

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

Bluffing It

Dragnet

Buck James

Lonesome Dove: The Series

Dragnet

Don't Go to Sleep

Duel at Diablo

Horizons West

Kaçakçılar Kraliçesi

Mastergate

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

That Girl

A Man Called Sledge

Column South

Dragnet

Kahraman İnekler

Fırtına Korkusu

Dangerous Mission