When Dennis Hopper died of prostate cancer at age 74, my husband asked me, "Hey, I thought prostate cancer didn't kill men and it is slow growing." LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke" and the New Mexico deputy solving New York …

He was 81. “Dennis was the first actor who ever came up to me and asked to perform his own stunts,” says Steven Spielberg, who made his movie debut directing Weaver … He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. Dennis Weaver, an actor with a Midwestern twang who played stiff-legged Chester the deputy on "Gunsmoke" and the cowboy cop hero in "McCloud," has died. He was 81. Dennis Weaver wasn't just the lead in the television series McCloud, or Chester on the 20th century's longest-running primetime series, Gunsmoke.He also won an Emmy, co-founded the charity LIFE (Love is Feeding Everyone), and served as the spokesman for Great Western Bank replacing John Wayne after his death. After playing the part for nine years, he moved on to star in his own series, Kentucky Jones (1964). He He is als…

Dennis Weaver first became familiar to television audiences as Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode in Gunsmoke (1955). However, the show failed to find mass appeal and was cancelled after just one season. Well, he is right about it usually being slow growing, but prostate cancer is still the 2nd leading cause of cancer death in men. Music was always a big part of the Weaver’s lives. William Dennis Weaver was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until not long before his death in 2006. Dennis Weaver, actor, humanitarian, and pioneer environmentalist, succumbed to complications from cancer … Over the years Dennis, a singer and songwriter, performed with his wife, Gerry (now deceased) often on stage with their sons as well. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dennis Weaver, an actor with a Midwestern twang who played stiff-legged Chester the deputy on "Gunsmoke" and the cowboy cop hero in "McCloud," has died. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's trusty partner Chester Goode/Proudfoot on the CBS western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud. Dennis Weaver, the actor best known for his roles in TV westerns and as an environmental activist, died Friday at his home in Ridgway.