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Posted on 02/27/2006 9:38:02 AM PST by Lizavetta
Just heard on the radio......
Well, there's number three.
Don Knots, Darrin McGavin, and now Dennis Weaver.
I will always remember him for "Duel" more than anything.
One of Spielberg's best.
Duel was a classic.
I always liked him and Ron Howard's brother on Gentle Ben! Why can't we get decent shows on TV anymore!
I'm getting old.
"Mr. Dillon", "Mr Dillon", "Mr. Dillon"
How sad I always enjoyed his movies.... He seemed like a good man, also Don Knotts! We've lost two of the "good guys"...
RIP
#3...and anyone who says they don't come in 3's in Hollywood...needs their head examined.It is beyond suspicion...it has become fact.
I remember him best from his early role on Gunsmoke. Sorry to hear of his passing.
Subtract one MAJOR Hollywood lib. from the US population.
The good ones are dying off, and being replaced by pure SCUM, not to mention leftist trash.
I am just happy that I no longer need TV or movies for my
entertainment.
Don't forget Darren McGavin please....he passed yesterday...we lost 3 good one's.
That does it.
I'm spooked.
All three had one thing in common, their first names all started with the letter "D" (Don, Darren, Dennis)
uh-oh
DUEL put Steven Spielburg on the Hollywood map, IMO.
Hate to tell you, but I will always remember him for "GUNSMOKE" when he played the role of Chester with James Arness.
They come in threes because people count them in groups of three. If somebody else dies later today or tomorrow you'll just start counting another group.
Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006
'Gunsmoke' actor Dennis Weaver diesBOB THOMASAssociated PressLOS ANGELES - Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke" and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in "McCloud," has died, his publicist said Monday. The actor was 81.
Weaver died of complications from cancer on Feb. 24 at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, publicist Julian Myers said.
A struggling actor in Hollywood in 1955, Weaver was earning $60 a week delivering flowers when he was offered $300 a week for a role in a new CBS television series, "Gunsmoke." He learned that another actor had turned down the same role at $400 a week. Weaver summoned his courage and asked for and got $400. By the end of his nine years with "Gunsmoke," he was earning $9,000 a week.
When Weaver first auditioned for the series, he found the character of Chester "inane." He wrote in his 2001 autobiography, "All the World's a Stage," that he said to himself: "With all my Actors Studio training, I'll correct this character by using my own experiences and drawing from myself."
The result was a well-rounded character that appealed to audiences, especially with his drawling, "Mis-ter Dil-lon."
At the end of seven hit seasons, Weaver sought other horizons. He announced his departure, but the failures of pilots for his own series caused him to return to "Gunsmoke" on a limited basis for two more years. The role brought him an Emmy in the 1958-59 season.
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Ooph, thank heavens. The cat's safe for now!
"Gunsmoke" and "Have Gun Will Travel" were two shows we always watched as a family back in the day.
Now now... Don't go upsetting our numerologist friends. ;-)
Just thinking about that movie scares the bejeebies out of me.
Oh, wow. I never missed an episode of McCloud.
That's three.
Really. Isn't that weird?
Your point??
He was a huge lib, FWIW.
Amazing how Spielberg really made you feel like you were experiencing what the Weaver character was going through, you could just feel the desperation. Spielberg owes his career to that movie.
He may have donated to libs, but at least he was never a barking moonbat like George Clooney. (That I know of.)
Ah!
Nobody seems to remember his show "Whirly Birds"!
That was a lot of fun!
Even before that he did the Joan Crawford segment of the Night Gallery pilot.
Amen to that. Watched it the first time late at night, alone. Thought I was having some kind of horrible nightmare.
For Spielberg, it's all been downhill, albeit slowly, from there. That was truly an everyman kind of movie.
Anyway, Weaver was a good actor and will be missed. Prayers for his family.
Amen to that. Watched it the first time late at night, alone. Thought I was having some kind of horrible nightmare.
For Spielberg, it's all been downhill, albeit slowly, from there. That was truly an everyman kind of movie.
Anyway, Weaver was a good actor and will be missed. Prayers for his family.
Actor - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s)
"Wildfire" (2005) TV Series .... Henry Ritter (2005)
Home on the Range (2004) (voice) .... Abner
"Touched by an Angel"
- The Good Earth (2003) TV Episode .... Emmett Rivers
"The Simpsons"
- The Lastest Gun in the West (2002) TV Episode (voice) .... Buck McCoy
"Family Law"
- Sex, Lies, and Internet (2001) TV Episode .... Judge Richard Lloyd
"The Beast"
- Travinia: Part 2 (2001) TV Episode .... Walter McFadden
- Travinia: Part 1 (2001) TV Episode .... Walter McFadden
Submerged (2000) .... Buck Stevens
High Noon (2000) (TV) .... Mart Howe
The Virginian (2000) (TV) .... Sam Balaam
Escape from Wildcat Canyon (1998) .... Grandpa Flint
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997) (TV) .... Captain Farnsworth
Seduction in a Small Town (1997) (TV) .... Sam Jenks
... aka Harvest of Lies
Telluride: Time Crosses Over (1997) .... Cameo appearance
Voyeur II (1996) (VG) .... Sheriff John Parker
Two Bits & Pepper (1995) .... Sheriff Pratt
Greyhounds (1994) (TV) .... Chance Wayne
"Lonesome Dove: The Series"
- Down Come Rain: Part 2 (1994) TV Episode .... Buffalo Bill Cody
- O Western Wind: Part 1 (1994) TV Episode .... Buffalo Bill Cody
- When Wilt Thou Blow: Part 3 (1994) TV Episode .... Buffalo Bill Cody
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (????) TV Episode .... Buffalo Bill Cody
- Last Stand (????) TV Episode .... Buffalo Bill Cody
Mastergate (1992) (TV) .... Dale Burden
"Captain Planet and the Planeteers" (1990) TV Series (voice) .... Dusty, Josh
... aka The New Adventures of Captain Planet (USA: fourth season title)
The Return of Sam McCloud (1989) (TV) .... Sam McCloud
Disaster at Silo 7 (1988) (TV) .... Sheriff Ben Harlen
"Buck James" (1987) TV Series .... Doctor Buck James
Bluffing It (1987) (TV) .... Jack Duggan
Headin' Home for the Holidays (1986) (TV)
... aka Amy Grant's Old Fashioned Christmas (USA: video title)
A Winner Never Quits (1986) (TV) .... Mr. Wyshner
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story (1985) (TV) .... Wally Johnson
"Magnum, P.I."
- Let Me Hear the Music (1985) TV Episode .... Lacy Fletcher-present Day
"Emerald Point N.A.S." (1983) TV Series .... Rear Adm. Thomas Mallory
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983) (TV) .... Eddie Gant
Don't Go to Sleep (1982) (TV) .... Phillip
The Day the Loving Stopped (1981) (TV) .... Aaron Danner
"Stone" (1980) TV Series .... Detective Sergeant Daniel Stone
"The Big Show"
- Episode #1.8 (1980) TV Episode .... Host
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980) (TV) .... Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
Amber Waves (1980) (TV) .... Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979) (TV) .... Charles Bates
Stone (1979) (TV) .... Daniel Ellis Stone
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) (TV) .... Professor Benjamin Fuller
"Pearl" (1978) (mini) TV Series .... Col. Jason Forrest
"Centennial" (1978) (mini) TV Series .... R.J. Poteet
The Islander (1978) (TV) .... Gable McQueen
Intimate Strangers (1977) (TV) .... Donald Halston
"The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries"
- The Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom (1977) TV Episode .... Dennis Weaver
Cry for Justice (1977)
The John Denver Special (1976) (TV)
"McCloud" .... Sam McCloud
- Park Avenue Pirates (1975) TV Episode .... Sam McCloud
- Return to the Alamo (1975) TV Episode .... Sam McCloud
- Sharks! (1975) TV Episode .... Sam McCloud
- Lady on the Run (1975) TV Episode .... Sam McCloud
- The Man with the Golden Hat (1975) TV Episode .... Sam McCloud
Terror on the Beach (1973) (TV) .... Neil Glynn
Female Artillery (1973) (TV) .... Deke Chambers
Rolling Man (1972) (TV) .... Lonnie McAfee
The Great Man's Whiskers (1972) (TV) .... Abraham Lincoln
Duel (1971/I) (TV) .... David Mann
The Forgotten Man (1971) (TV) .... Lieutenant Joe Hardy
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) .... Lincoln "Linc" Palmer
A Man Called Sledge (1970) .... Erwin Ward
... aka Sledge
McCloud: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.? (1970) (TV) .... Sam McCloud
... aka Portrait of a Dead Girl (USA: reissue title)
"The Virginian"
... aka The Men from Shiloh (new title)
- Train of Darkness (1970) TV Episode .... Jed 'Judge Harker' Haines
"The Name of the Game"
- Give Till It Hurts (1969) TV Episode .... Walter Grayson
"Judd for the Defense"
- The View from the Ivory Tower (1969) TV Episode .... Professor Robert Beardsley
Mission Batangas (1968) .... Chip Corbett
... aka Batangas (USA)
Gentle Giant (1967) .... Tom Wedloe
"Gentle Ben" (1967) TV Series .... Tom Wedloe
"Disneyland"
... aka Disney's Wonderful World (USA: new title)
... aka The Disney Sunday Movie (USA: new title)
... aka The Magical World of Disney (USA: new title)
... aka The Wonderful World of Disney (USA: new title)
... aka Walt Disney (USA: new title)
... aka Walt Disney Presents (USA: new title)
... aka Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (USA: new title)
- Gallegher Goes West: The Crusading Reporter (1966) TV Episode .... George Tucker - Sundown Kid
- Gallegher Goes West: Showdown with the Sundown Kid (1966) TV Episode .... George Tucker - Sundown Kid
Way... Way Out (1966) .... Hoffman
Duel at Diablo (1966) .... Willard Grange (Fort Creel freighter)
... aka Ralph Nelson's Duel at Diablo
"Gallegher Goes West"
- Showdown with the Sundown Kid (1966) TV Episode .... George Tucker, the Sundown Kid
- The Crusading Reporter (1966) TV Episode .... George Tucker, the Sundown Kid
"Combat!"
- The Farmer (1965) TV Episode .... Noah
"Dr. Kildare"
- A Reverence for Life (1965) TV Episode .... Wayne Wandemeir
"Gunsmoke" .... Chester Goode (1955-1964)
... aka Gun Law (UK)
... aka Marshal Dillon (USA: rerun title)
- Bently (1964) TV Episode .... Chester Goode
- Once a Haggen (1964) TV Episode .... Chester Goode
- Prairie Wolfer (1964) TV Episode .... Chester Goode
- The Glory and the Mud (1964) TV Episode .... Chester Goode
- Extradition: Part 2 (1963) TV Episode .... Chester Goode
(72 more)
"Kentucky Jones" (1964) TV Series .... Kentucky Jones
"The Twilight Zone"
- Shadow Play (1961) TV Episode .... Adam Grant
The Gallant Hours (1960) .... Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Jefferson 'Andy' Lowe
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
- Insomnia (1960) TV Episode .... Charles Cavender
Touch of Evil (1958) .... Mirador Motel night manager
"Playhouse 90"
- The Dungeon (1958) TV Episode .... Karl Ohringer
"Climax!"
... aka Climax Mystery Theater (USA)
- Burst of Fire (1958) TV Episode .... Steve Maclyn
Navy Wife (1956)
... aka Mother, Sir! (UK)
Storm Fear (1955) .... Hank
Chief Crazy Horse (1955) .... Major Carlisle
... aka Valley of Fury (UK)
"The Lone Ranger"
- The Tell-Tale Bullet (1955) TV Episode .... Jeb Sullivan
Seven Angry Men (1955) .... John Brown, Jr.
... aka God's Angry Man (USA: alternative title)
Ten Wanted Men (1955) .... Sheriff Clyde Gibbons
"Dragnet"
... aka Badge 714 (USA: syndication title)
- The Big Screen (1955) TV Episode .... Dave Rotbart
- The Big Bible (1954) TV Episode .... Sergeant Jay Allen
- The Big Present (1954) TV Episode .... Lieutenant Dick Whitley
- The Big Bar (1954) TV Episode .... Russ Camp
- The Big Plant (1954) TV Episode .... Officer Boone
"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"
... aka Herald Playhouse (USA: syndication title)
... aka Schlitz Playhouse (USA: new title)
... aka The Playhouse (USA: syndication title)
- Underground (1955) TV Episode .... Ben
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955) (uncredited) .... Air Intelligence Officer
Dragnet (1954) .... Captain R.A. Lohrman
... aka The Original Dragnet (USA: reissue title)
Dangerous Mission (1954) .... Ranger clerk
... aka Rangers of the North (USA)
War Arrow (1953) .... Pino
The Nebraskan (1953) .... Capt. De Witt
The Man from the Alamo (1953) .... Alamo Soldier
The Golden Blade (1953) (uncredited) .... Rabble Rouser
Column South (1953) .... Menguito
Law and Order (1953) .... Frank Durling
It Happens Every Thursday (1953) .... President, Chamber of Commerce
The Mississippi Gambler (1953) (uncredited) .... Julian Conant
The Lawless Breed (1953) .... Jim Clements
The Redhead from Wyoming (1953) .... Matt Jessup
The Raiders (1952) .... Dick Logan
... aka Riders of Vengeance (USA: reissue title)
... aka The Riding Kid (USA)
Horizons West (1952) .... Dandy Taylor
Filmography as: Actor, Composer, Cinematographer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Himself
Composer - filmography
(1980s) (1970s)
"Stone" (1980) TV Series (theme)
Stone (1979) (TV) (theme song)
Filmography as: Actor, Composer, Cinematographer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Himself
Cinematographer - filmography
"Hong Kong Phooey" (1974) TV Series
"The New Scooby-Doo Movies" (1972) TV Series
... aka Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters (USA: video title)
... aka Scooby-Doo's New Comedy Movie Pictures (USA)
Filmography as: Actor, Composer, Cinematographer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Himself
Director - filmography
(1970s) (1960s)
"McCloud" (1970) TV Series
"Gunsmoke" (1955) TV Series (1961)
... aka Gun Law (UK)
... aka Marshal Dillon (USA: rerun title)
Filmography as: Actor, Composer, Cinematographer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Himself
Miscellaneous Crew - filmography
"Watching Ellie" (2002) TV Series (camera operator)
Filmography as: Actor, Composer, Cinematographer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Himself
Producer - filmography
The Return of Sam McCloud (1989) (TV) (co-executive producer)
Filmography as: Actor, Composer, Cinematographer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Himself
Himself - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s)
"Hollywood Squares"
... aka H² (USA: promotional abbreviation)
... aka H2: Hollywood Squares (USA: fifth season title)
- Episode dated 23 February 2004 (2004) TV Episode .... Himself
CBS at 75 (2003) (TV) .... Himself
Intimate Portrait: Linda Gray (2003) (TV) .... Himself
"Weakest Link"
... aka The Weakest Link USA (UK: promotional title)
- NBC All-Stars Editon (2002) TV Episode .... Himself
Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (2001) (TV) .... Host
Intimate Portrait: Linda Evans (2000) (TV) .... Himself
Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western (1999) (TV) .... Narrator
... aka Subdivide and Conquer (USA: short title)
Visions of a New World (1995) (V) .... Himself
The American Film Institute Salute to Steven Spielberg (1995) (TV) .... Himself
"The Great Battles of the Civil War" (1994) (mini) TV Series (voice) .... R. E Lee
The Golbal Forum (1990) .... Himself
Where Have All the Children Gone (1980) (TV)
The American Film Institute Salute to Orson Welles (1975) (TV) .... Himself
"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"
... aka The Best of Carson (USA: rerun title)
- Episode dated 4 October 1973 (1973) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 28 September 1972 (1972) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 8 June 1972 (1972) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 2 September 1971 (1971) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 19 August 1971 (1971) TV Episode .... Himself
(1 more)
"The Dean Martin Show"
... aka The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (new title)
- Episode dated 30 September 1971 (1971) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 7 January 1971 (1971) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 17 December 1970 (1970) TV Episode .... Himself
- Episode dated 18 September 1969 (1969) TV Episode .... Himself
Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970) (TV) .... Tom Lincoln
"House Party"
... aka Art Linkletter's House Party (USA: complete title)
... aka The Linkletter Show (USA: new title)
- Episode dated 11 September 1970 (1970) TV Episode .... Himself
"What's My Line?"
- Episode dated 22 April 1962 (1962) TV Episode .... Guest Panelist
"Toast of the Town"
... aka The Ed Sullivan Show (new title)
- Episode #12.23 (1959) TV Episode .... Himself
"This Is Your Life"
- Dennis Weaver (1957) TV Episode .... Himself
Actually, they come in 148's. It's just that nobody has recognized the pattern yet.
Uhh...if you read MikeA's post you would see I was answering his statement....
Oops. Good think hiccup posts don't come in threes. Sorry.
Mick Jagger strolls by and says, "Hey, Hugh, get offa McCloud."
We roared at that in high school.
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