Biography
Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode on the western Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the police drama McCloud. He starred in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958). He also played in the TV series "Wildfire".
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Awards & recognition
- Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award · 1987
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series · 1959
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography41 titles
The Don Knotts Show
The Twilight Zone
Wildfire
The Simpsons
Combat!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Touch of Evil
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Duel
Magnum, P.I.
Touched by an Angel
McCloud
The Mississippi Gambler
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
Greyhounds
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Police Story
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
The Lawless Breed
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Pet Set
The Gallant Hours
Gunsmoke
The Man from the Alamo
Dragnet
Duel at Diablo
Horizons West
The Redhead from Wyoming
That Girl
Column South
Home on the Range
A Man Called Sledge
Dragnet
Dangerous Mission
Storm Fear
Way... Way Out
Law and Order
Chief Crazy Horse
The Virginian
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Submerged