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Dennis Weaver

1924–2006 · American actor

Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958). He also appeared in the TV series Wildfire.

Dennis Weaver, in order

  1. 1952 Horizons West: acted · directed by Budd Boetticher
  2. 1952 The Raiders: acted · directed by Lesley Selander
  3. 1953 Column South: acted · directed by Fred de Cordova
  4. 1953 Law and Order: acted · directed by Nathan Juran
  5. 1953 The Golden Blade: acted · directed by Nathan Juran
  6. 1953 The Lawless Breed: acted · directed by Raoul Walsh
  7. 1953 The Man from the Alamo: acted · directed by Budd Boetticher
  8. 1953 The Nebraskan: acted · directed by Fred F. Sears
  9. 1953 War Arrow: acted · directed by George Sherman
  10. 1954 Dangerous Mission: acted · directed by Louis King
  11. 1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri: acted · directed by Mark Robson
  12. 1955 Chief Crazy Horse: acted · directed by George Sherman
  13. 1955 Gunsmoke (TV series): acted · directed by Norman Macdonnell
  14. 1955 Seven Angry Men: acted · directed by Charles Marquis Warren
  15. 1955 Ten Wanted Men: acted · directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
  16. 1958 Touch of Evil: acted · directed by Orson Welles · critics 96%, audiences 92% · streaming on Prime Video, Plex, Tubi
  17. 1960 The Gallant Hours: acted · directed by Robert Montgomery
  18. 1961 The Twilight Zone (TV series): acted · critics 92%, audiences 95% · streaming on Paramount+, Fandango at Home (free), Pluto TV
  19. 1964 Kentucky Jones (TV series): acted · directed by Buzz Kulik
  20. 1966 Duel at Diablo: acted · directed by Ralph Nelson
  21. 1966 Way...Way Out: acted · directed by Gordon Douglas
  22. 1967 Gentle Giant: acted · directed by James Neilson
  23. 1968 Mission Batangas: acted · directed by Keith Larsen
  24. 1970 A Man Called Sledge: acted · directed by Giorgio Gentili and Vic Morrow
  25. 1970 McCloud (TV series): acted
  26. 1971 Duel: acted · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 89%, audiences 84%
  27. 1971 The NBC Mystery Movie (TV series): acted
  28. 1971 What's the Matter with Helen?: acted · directed by Curtis Harrington
  29. 1972 Rolling Man (TV movie): acted · directed by Peter Hyams
  30. 1977 Intimate Strangers (TV movie): acted · directed by John Llewellyn Moxey · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  31. 1981 The Day the Loving Stopped (TV movie): acted · directed by Daniel Mann
  32. 1983 Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (TV movie): acted · directed by Paul Wendkos
  33. 1983 Emerald Point N.A.S. (TV series): acted · directed by Karen Arthur
  34. 1994 Greyhounds (TV movie): acted · directed by Kim Manners
  35. 1997 Seduction in a Small Town (TV movie): acted · directed by Charles Wilkinson
  36. 2000 Submerged: acted · directed by Fred Olen Ray