Birthday

1924-06-04

Died

2006-02-24

Birthplace

Joplin, Missouri, USA

Gender

Male

Known For

Acting

Dennis Weaver

William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.

Acting Credits

Duel at Diablo

Willard Grange

Touch of Evil

Mirador Motel Night Manager

Duel

David Mann

The Golden Blade

What's the Matter with Helen?

Lincoln Palmer

Horizons West

Dandy Taylor

Ten Wanted Men

Sheriff Clyde Gibbons

High Noon

Mart Howe

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

Eddie Gant

A Man Called Sledge

Erwin Ward

Storm Fear

Hank

Don't Go to Sleep

Phillip

Submerged

Buck Stevens

Way... Way Out

Hoffman

The Lawless Breed

Jim Clements

Dangerous Mission

Ranger clerk

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

Prof. Benjamin Fuller

Terror on the Beach

Neil Glynn

Column South

Menguito

The Mississippi Gambler

Julian Contant

Disaster at Silo 7

Sheriff Ben Harlen

A Winner Never Quits

Mr. Wyshner

The Virginian

Sam Balaam

The Forgotten Man

Lt. Joe Hardy

Female Artillery

Deke Chambers

Rolling Man

Lonnie McAfee

Swing Out, Sweet Land

Self

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

Wally Johnson

Dragnet

Capt. R.A. Lohrman

Seduction in a Small Town

Sam Jenks

Amber Waves

Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt

Law and Order

Frank Durling

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

Stone

Daniel Ellis Stone

The Return of Sam McCloud

Sam McCloud

Gentle Giant

Tom Wedloe

War Arrow

Pino

The Islander

Gable McQueen

Two Bits & Pepper

Sheriff Pratt

The Gallant Hours

Andy Lowe

Intimate Strangers

Donald Halston

Walking After Midnight

Self

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

Charles Bates

Dennis Weaver's Earthship

Bluffing It

Jack Duggan

Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

Captain Farnsworth

A Cry For Justice

Sgt. Ted Bentley

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

Self

Seven Angry Men

John Brown Jr.

The Redhead from Wyoming

Matt Jessup

Mastergate

Vice President Dale Burden

Escape from Wildcat Canyon

Grandpa Flint

Chief Crazy Horse

Maj. Carlisle

Home on the Range

Abner (voice)

The Day the Loving Stopped

Aaron Danner

Greyhounds

Chance Wayne

Gallegher Goes West

George Tucker, the Sundown Kid

Earth and the American Dream

Reader (voice)

The Great Man's Whiskers

Abraham Lincoln

Mission Batangas

Chip Corbett

Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Narrator

The Man from the Alamo

Tennessean (uncredited)

Amy Grant: Headin' Home for the Holidays

Tom Miller

Magnum, P.I.

Lacy Fletcher

The Simpsons

Buck McCoy (voice)

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

That Girl

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

Wildfire

Henry Ritter

Gunsmoke

Chester

E! True Hollywood Story

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

Dragnet

Combat!

Noah

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Centennial

R.J. Poteet

The Twilight Zone

Adam Grant

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Charles Cavender

Police Story

Family Law

Judge Richard Lloyd

The Don Knotts Show

The Don Knotts Show

Self

McCloud

Sam McCloud

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Ben

Emerald Point N.A.S.

Rear Adm. Thomas Mallory

Climax!

Steve Maclyn

Judd for the Defense

Buck James

Dr. Buck James

Lonesome Dove: The Series

Buffalo Bill Cody

Dr. Kildare

Wayne Wandemeir

Kentucky Jones

Kentucky Jones

Stone

Det. Sgt. Daniel Stone

Cher

Self - Guest

Gentle Ben

Tom Wedloe

The Mike Douglas Show

Self - Co-Host

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self

Pearl

Col. Jason Forrest

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

The Name of the Game

Walter Grayson

Dragnet

Russ Camp

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Pet Set

Self

Touched by an Angel

Emmett Rivers

Film Credits

Gunsmoke

Director

McCloud

Director

Gentle Ben

Director