Dennis Weaver Overview:

Actor, Dennis Weaver, was born William Dennis Weaver on Jun 4, 1924 in Joplin, MO. Weaver died at the age of 81 on Feb 24, 2006 in Ridgway, CO .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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[to his wife]
Willard Grange: My horse is dead and you're back - shoulda been the other way around.


Lt. Jed Sayre: Then the peace is strong, Menquito?
Menguito: It will always be strong so long as there are men with strong minds to guard it well.


[Reb is complaining about being cooped up in the Alamo]
John Stroud: If you get tired of it here, why don't you walk out?
Reb: I think the biggest mistake I ever made was when I walked in.


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Dennis Weaver Facts
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.

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.

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.

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