Dennis Weaver

Dennis Weaver

Birth : 1924-06-04, Joplin, Missouri, USA

Death : 2006-02-24

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Weaver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver

Movies

Home on the Range
Abner (voice)
When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky-high as this unlikely animal alliance risk their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys.
Submerged
Buck Stevens
Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
The Virginian
Sam Balaam
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
Escape from Wildcat Canyon
Grandpa Flint
Before Pete Flint moves to New York with his family, he goes on one last embark with his grandfather. When their plane crashes in Wildcat Canyon, they are forced to survive in the dangerous and cold winter with only each other and a dog they find.
Seduction in a Small Town
Sam Jenks
A couple's idyllic life is shattered when authorities accuse them of child abuse and take away their three young children. When they desperately search for the source of the rumors about them, their suspicions lead them to a young woman who recently arrived in their small town, but they can't believe that this person they befriended would turn the town against them.
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
Captain Farnsworth
Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan.
Two Bits & Pepper
Sheriff Pratt
Comedy about idiotic (the two can't even add 1+1) kidnappers, both played for unknown reasons by Joe Piscopo, who capture two young girls and hold them for ransom. However, in "Home Alone" fashion, the two girls make fools of the two men. The film becomes even sillier as two horses who talk to one another decide to rescue the girls from the kidnappers
Greyhounds
Chance Wayne
Retired sherriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot. From http://www.cannell.com/tv-show-detail/18/greyhounds.html GREYHOUNDS is an action drama starring Dennis Weaver, Robert Guillaume, James Coburn and Pat Morita about three retired lawmen and a "reformed" conman lured back into crimefighting as special consultants to a young Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego. Weaver is Chance Wayne, a widowed ex-sheriff; Guillaume is former Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Smith; Morita plays ex-police psychiatrist Akira "Moch" Mochizuki; Coburn is con artist John Duffy, just released from prison and not so anxious to go straight. "JoJo" Gonzales, played by Roxann Biggs, is the female U.S. Attorney who recruits them for her staff.
Mastergate
Vice President Dale Burden
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
Earth and the American Dream
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.
Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Narrator
A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.
Dennis Weaver's Earthship
A documentary about a house Dennis Weaver built/had built in Colorado. The concept was created by Michael Reynolds and his headquarters are in Taos, N.M. It is an off-grid house built with earth-rammed tires and other recycled materials.
Disaster at Silo 7
Sheriff Ben Harlen
During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes.
Walking After Midnight
Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.
Bluffing It
Jack Duggan
A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion that requires reading.
A Winner Never Quits
Mr. Wyshner
Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. The story of Pete Gray.
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Wally Johnson
The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Eddie Gant
A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
Don't Go to Sleep
Phillip
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
The Day the Loving Stopped
Aaron Danner
Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln
Amber Waves
Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Stone
Daniel Ellis Stone
Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
Charles Bates
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Professor Benjamin Fuller
The last of a northern California tribe tries to assimilate with the help of an anthropologist.
The Islander
Gable McQueen
A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mobster, and a racket-busting U.S. Senator framed for beating up an airline stewardess.
Intimate Strangers
Donald Halston
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Terror on the Beach
Neil Glynn
A family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
Female Artillery
Deke Chambers
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Rolling Man
Lonnie McAfee
After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
The Great Man's Whiskers
Abraham Lincoln
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Duel
David Mann
Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
The Forgotten Man
Lt. Joe Hardy
A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
What's the Matter with Helen?
Lincoln Palmer
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
A Man Called Sledge
Erwin Ward
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Swing Out, Sweet Land
Self
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Self
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Mission Batangas
Chip Corbett
Dennis Weaver is a mercenary pilot in the Pacific during WW2. He agrees to help Vera Miles steal the Phillipine treasury of gold away from the conquering Japanese forces.
Gentle Giant
Tom Wedloe
The Story of a boy and his bear.
Gallegher Goes West
George Tucker, the Sundown Kid
In Part 1, Gallegher befriends a man on the stagecoach while heading west, only to discover he is a famous outlaw, the Sundown Kid. The sheriff is crooked, too, so it is difficult for Gallegher and his friend, Detective Snead, to capture the Sundown Kid. Gallegher and his colleagues work for the recall of the corrupt mayor of Brimstone, even though the mayor tries to stop them by force. In Part 2, Gallegher buys and trains a horse, then is surprised when a local rancher is accused of murder. The boy is sure it is a frame-up, and he tries to help out. Gallegher continues to help the rancher who has been framed for murder, and after he finds an incriminating watch, he is able to reach the trial just in time to save the day.
Way... Way Out
Hoffman
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Duel at Diablo
Willard Grange
While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg, rescues Ellen Grange from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange. He is contracted to act as a scout for an Army cavalry unit. Willard, Ellen, and her infant son are along for the ride, as is horse trader Toller, a veteran of the 10th Cavalry. The party is trapped in a canyon by Chata, an Apache chief and grandfather of Ellen's baby. Willard is captured and tortured. Jess sneaks away and brings reinforcements just in time to save the day. Jess learns that the man he has been hunting is none other than Willard Grange.
The Gallant Hours
Andy Lowe
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Touch of Evil
Mirador Motel Night Manager
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Storm Fear
Hank
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Chief Crazy Horse
Maj. Carlisle
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.
Seven Angry Men
John Brown Jr.
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Ten Wanted Men
Sheriff Clyde Gibbons
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
Dangerous Mission
Ranger clerk
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
War Arrow
Pino
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
The Golden Blade
Harum is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan, a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the Caliph. She gives Harum a golden sword which, in his hands, makes him invincible. Harum uses the sword in the name of justice and is doing quite well until a duplicate sword is placed in his scabbard during one of his off-guard moments, and he winds up in chains.
Column South
Menguito
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
Law and Order
Frank Durling
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
The Redhead from Wyoming
Matt Jessup
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
The Lawless Breed
Jim Clements
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Horizons West
Dandy Taylor
Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
The Return of Sam McCloud
Sam McCloud
Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.