Post by ADMIN on Feb 28, 2006 10:35:45 GMT -5
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dennis Weaver, the diffident deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke" and the canny New Mexico deputy solving New York City 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, announced Monday.
"He was a wonderful man and a fine actor and we will all miss him," Burt Reynolds, who played alongside Weaver in "Gunsmoke," said Monday.
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." After nine years as Chester, who he played with a stiff-legged gait, he was earning $9,000 a week.
END SNIP
They always say news like this comes in threes.. wonder why it seems to be true?
Don Knotts, Darrin McGavin, and now Dennis Weaver.
Weaver died of complications from cancer Friday at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, his publicist, Julian Myers, announced Monday.
"He was a wonderful man and a fine actor and we will all miss him," Burt Reynolds, who played alongside Weaver in "Gunsmoke," said Monday.
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." After nine years as Chester, who he played with a stiff-legged gait, he was earning $9,000 a week.
END SNIP
They always say news like this comes in threes.. wonder why it seems to be true?
Don Knotts, Darrin McGavin, and now Dennis Weaver.
