Actor Dennis Weaver dead at 81
February 27, 2006
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Dennis Weaver, best known for
his television roles as the loyal, limping deputy to Marshal
Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke” and as the urban lawman with a cowboy
hat on “McCloud,” has died at age 81, his publicist said on
Monday.
Weaver, who earned an Emmy Award in the 1950s for playing
the lame sidekick Chester Goode on “Gunsmoke,” died on February
24 at his home in Ridgway, Colorado, due to complications from
cancer, his spokesman, Julian Myers, said.
Source: reuters
