Basic Information About Dennis Weaver
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Actor, Pilot, Television Director |
Net worth | $16,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1924-06-04 |
Place of birth | Joplin |
Date of death | 2006-02-24 (aged 81) |
Nationality | United States of America |
Spouse | 20 October - Geraldine Stowell (Β 1945 - 24 FebruaryΒ 2006)Β (his death)Β (3 children) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Dennis Weaver win?
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Dennis Weaver roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Home on the Range | Abner (voice) |
Duel at Diablo | Willard Grange |
The Simpsons | Buck McCoy 1 episode, 2002 |
The Virginian | Jed Haines 1 episode, 1970 |
That Girl | Lewis M. Franks 1 episode, 1970 |
Hee Haw | Self / ... 5 episodes, 1977-1981 |
Lonesome Dove: The Series | Buffalo Bill Cody 5 episodes, 1994-1995 |
Wildfire | Henry 12 episodes, 2005 |
Dr. Kildare | Wayne Wandemeir 1 episode, 1965 |
The Name of the Game | Walter Grayson 1 episode, 1969 |
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Self 2 episodes, 1977 |
Combat! | Noah 1 episode, 1965 |
Gentle Ben | Writer |
Gentle Ben | Tom Wedloe 56 episodes, 1967-1969 |
Family Law | Judge Richard Lloyd 1 episode, 2001 |
Interesting Facts about Dennis Weaver
- Was a track and field athlete from the University of Oklahoma.
- Placed 6th in the 1948 Olympic Trials in the Decathlon. Bob Mathias placed first; Weaver won the final event, the 1500 meter run.
- Born at 8:00am-CDT.
- Shelley Winters gave him one of his first real breaks by helping him get a part in a stage production of "Come Back, Little Sheba."
- In 1958, he formed a singing trio with Milburn Stone and Amanda Blake. In 1960, the trio broke the house record for the Albuquerque Arena during the New Mexico State Fair.
- (1973-1975) President of Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
- Had three grandchildren: Jennifer Weaver, Travis Weaver and Jesse Weaver.
- Was a committed environmentalist; Weaver's home near Santa Fe, NM, is constructed almost entirely out of recycled materials.
- Father of actor Robert Weaver, actor/producer/director Rick Weaver and Rusty Weaver.
- Lost a daughter-in-law, Lynne Ann Weaver (who was married to his son, Robert Weaver), to a July 2003 Santa Monica, California, car accident that killed more than eight people.
- Inducted (as a cast member of Gunsmoke (1955)) into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1981.
- Almost didn't get the part of "Chester Goode" on Gunsmoke (1955) until he asked for a second chance to read the lines in a humorous, countrified accent and won the role.
- Served as the president of "Love Is Feeding Everyone" (LIFE), which fed 150,000 needy people a week in Los Angeles County. Also, founded the Institute of Ecolonomics, which sought solutions to economic and environmental problems.
- He 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 (1955). After nine years as Chester, who he played with a stiff-legged gait, he was earning $9,000 a week.
- Died on the same day and at the same age as Don Knotts.
- Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch).
- Built an Earthship environmental home in Ridgway, Colorado.
- He was a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party and a vocal opponent of the Iraq war.
- Good friend of Robert Brubaker. Their sons went to school together.
- Signed to a contract at Universal in 1952.
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