Dennis Weaver.

[raj]

And now Dennis Weaver's dead.  man, they are dropping like flies.  Like Knotts, Weaver was 81.

[Menard]

Pardon me, but Damn! Three TV legends in one weekend. We had just been having a discussion which involved the movie Duel, in the Darren McGavin thread.

Dennis Weaver could truly bring a character to life in a show. He roles in Gunsmoke and McCloud were memorable. I began watching Gunsmoke after Chester had left the cast, but I remember well the Sunday Mystery Movies and seeing episodes of McCloud on it. I actually liked McCloud a little more the older I got, and found quite a bit of humor in the show.

Another legend leaves us.

[Scott]

Dennis Weaver has been also hosting Encore Western Channel for quite a while now. Here is his official website. Check out his eco-home.

Official Dennis Weaver Webpage

[trekgeezer]

Dennis was also the Dad on Gentle Ben. His latest role was on the Family Channel serie Wildfire where he play the patriarch of the family.

Hell, he even did a guest voice part on the Simpsons.

It is strange about the Duel discussion on the Darren McGavin thread. EEEWWWW-WWWEEEE-EEEWWW!!

[raj]

Let's not discuss other celebs on these threads for a while.  Unless it's someone like Paris Hilton.

[ulthar]

raj Wrote:
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> Let's not discuss other celebs on these threads
> for a while.  Unless it's someone like Paris
> Hilton.


Or Brittany Spears.

[Menard]

Wasn't Tom Cruise in a movie with Dennis Weaver?

oops...

[daveblackeye15]

Someone on another topic got me mixed up. I thought they said someone else was in Duel.

But, I thought Weaver was great in Duel, no one would believe him when he said there was something wrong with that Semi.

[akiratubo]

Cripes.  Dennis Weaver was a great actor and, from what I've read, an all-around nice guy.

[Ozzymandias]

I realize I'll get chastized for my "evil socialist ideology" like I am on Missouriradio.net, but what I admire the most about Dennis Weaver is not only is he from the Ozarks (Joplin) but he got highly involved in ecology. He even built a house out of recycled material and was developing a renewable energey car with U.M at Rolla students.

I bought the first season of GUNSMOKE on DVD tonight.

Somewhere I have a CD rom with a series of promos for that the CBS stars did for an affiliate in New York (I Believe). Pat Paulsen from the Smothers Brothers is promoting shows from Sunday night. One of them is Gentle Ben. Paulsen messes up several times trying to say "I hope Dennis Weaver can tame that cute little bear."  After several screw ups Paulsen says, in his dead serious style, "I hope that bear eats Dennis Weaver." You hear the crew howl with laughter.  

[Scott]

You can buy his Eco-Earthship Home for $3,750,000. It's in Colorado.

[peter johnson]

I watched the Superbowl with Weaver up in Gold Hill, Colorado, in 1994.
One of his friends, a guy named Wayne, ran the gold-tailings recovery mine up there -- a place that processed tailings from the numerous abandoned gold mines in the area.
Everyone in town -- population 200 -- would gather in the old log-buliding hotel & start a fire & watch Superbowl.  
Very nice man -- I asked him about Welles' direction of him in "Touch of Evil".  He said that Welles hadn't really given him any direction at all & that the hysteria he brought to the part of the Motel Manager was all him.  I was shocked, but there he was, so what could you say?
It was a driving snowstorm outside.  I had to get a truck to tow me from a ditch.
He seemed so vital, of course, so I really can't picture him gone.
Oh, well . . . it comes to us all . . .
peter johnson/denny crane