Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Home on the Range
2004
as 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 c...
Submerged
2000
as Buck Stevens
Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
High Noon
2000
as Mart Howe
High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous ...
The Virginian
2000
as 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 lo...
Escape from Wildcat Canyon
1998
as 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...
Seduction in a Small Town
1997
as 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 searc...
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts
1997
as 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 Brews...
Two Bits & Pepper
1995
as 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 the...
Greyhounds
1994
as Chance Wayne
A retired sheriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot.
Mastergate
1992
as 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 ...
Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
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 l...
Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990
as 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
1990
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...
The Return of Sam McCloud
1989
as 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...
Disaster at Silo 7
1988
as 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 ...
Walking After Midnight
1988
as Self
Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.
Bluffing It
1987
as Jack Duggan
A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion that requires reading.
A Winner Never Quits
1986
as Mr. Wyshner
Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragemen...
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985
as 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
1983
as Eddie Gant
A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
Don't Go to Sleep
1982
as 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
1981
as 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
1980
as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraha...
Amber Waves
1980
as 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 b...
Stone
1979
as 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 fo...
A Cry For Justice
1979
as Sgt. Ted Bentley
Due to hasty investigations and questionable methods of two police sergeants, two hoodlums are convicted for a robbery in which a patrolman was seriou...
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1979
as 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 he...
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
1978
as Prof. Benjamin Fuller
A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and ...
The Islander
1978
as 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 mo...
Intimate Strangers
1977
as 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
1973
as Neil Glynn
When their campsite is vandalized by troublemakers, a family fights fire with fire.
Female Artillery
1973
as 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 ...
Rolling Man
1972
as 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 be...
The Great Man's Whiskers
1972
as Abraham Lincoln
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
Duel
1971
as 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 struggl...
The Forgotten Man
1971
as 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 h...
What's the Matter with Helen?
1971
as 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...
A Man Called Sledge
1970
as 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 ...
Swing Out, Sweet Land
1970
as Self
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
1968
as Self
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Mission Batangas
1968
as 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 conquer...
Gentle Giant
1967
as Tom Wedloe
The Story of a boy and his bear.
Gallegher Goes West
1966
as 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 cro...
Way... Way Out
1966
as Hoffman
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Duel at Diablo
1966
as Willard Grange
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons he...
The Gallant Hours
1960
as 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. nava...
Touch of Evil
1958
as 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 ...
Storm Fear
1955
as Hank
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Chief Crazy Horse
1955
as 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 ...
Seven Angry Men
1955
as John Brown Jr.
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Ten Wanted Men
1955
as 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 ...
Dragnet
1954
as Capt. R.A. Lohrman
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
Dangerous Mission
1954
as 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
1953
as Pino
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to ...
The Golden Blade
1953
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Tho...
The Man from the Alamo
1953
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish ...
Column South
1953
as 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 Territo...
Law and Order
1953
as Frank Durling
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
The Mississippi Gambler
1953
as Julian Contant
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamb...
The Redhead from Wyoming
1953
as Matt Jessup
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
The Lawless Breed
1952
as Jim Clements
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished re...
Horizons West
1952
as 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...