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DennisWeaver
Dennis Weaver dead at 81
by Joel Keller, posted Feb 27th 2006 5:25PM
Wow, it's been a bad week for
TV veterans. First Curt Gowdy passed away,
then Don Knotts and Darren McGavin. Now comes word that Dennis
Weaver, who acted in various roles on television for over fifty years, passed
away Friday at the age of 81, apparently due to complications from cancer.Weaver's best known roles were as Chester Goode on the long-running Western Gunsmoke and as a New Mexican cowboy lawman transplanted to New York City in the Seventies mystery series McCloud.
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