“McCloud’s” Dennis Weaver, 81
Posted: Monday, February 27th, 2006 10:20 am
LOS 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. The actor was 81.
Weaver died of complications from cancer Friday at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, his publicist Julian Myers said. …
Weaver was a struggling actor in Hollywood in 1955, earning $60 a week delivering flowers when he was offered $300 a week for a role in a new CBS television series, Gunsmoke. By the end of his nine years with Gunsmoke, he was earning $9,000 a week. …
He appeared in several movies, including Touch of Evil, Ten Wanted Men, Gentle Giant, Seven Angry Men, Dragnet, Way … Way Out and The Bridges at Toko-Ri.
Weaver also was an activist for protecting the environment and combating world hunger. … Read full obituary
