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Well, there's number three.
Don Knots, Darrin McGavin, and now Dennis Weaver.
I will always remember him for "Duel" more than anything.
Duel was a classic.
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.
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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Oh, wow. I never missed an episode of McCloud.
That's three.
Ah!
Nobody seems to remember his show "Whirly Birds"!
That was a lot of fun!
Mick Jagger strolls by and says, "Hey, Hugh, get offa McCloud."
We roared at that in high school.
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You know,
"Hey, you, get off of McCloud."
RIP
On last night's show, Dennis Weaver was the guest panelist.