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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: RGMike on February 27, 2006, 08:32:27 PM

Title: RIP Dennis Weaver
Post by: RGMike on February 27, 2006, 08:32:27 PM

Chester (from "Gunsmoke"), and most famously, "McCloud"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/02/27/entertainment/e171650S53.DTL

Title: Re: RIP Dennis Weaver
Post by: ggould on February 27, 2006, 09:08:34 PM

Quote from: "RGMike"

Chester (from "Gunsmoke"), and most famously, "McCloud"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/02/27/entertainment/e171650S53.DTL

I never saw McCloud, so he will always be Chester to me!

Title: Re: RIP Dennis Weaver
Post by: mshray on February 28, 2006, 11:08:47 AM

Quote from: "ggould"

Quote from: "RGMike"

Chester (from "Gunsmoke"), and most famously, "McCloud"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/02/27/entertainment/e171650S53.DTL

I never saw McCloud, so he will always be Chester to me!

That's a shame!  One of my favorite affectations is to respond as he always to did to Capt. Clifford:  "Wull thar ya go, Chief."

The above obit piece failed to mention his role in Touch of Evil, as the squirrelly motel clerk.  Hitchcock was said to have based Anthony Perkins role in Psycho on Weaver's protrayal of this character.

Title: Re: RIP Dennis Weaver
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on February 28, 2006, 11:44:57 AM

Quote from: "mshray"

Quote from: "ggould"

Quote from: "RGMike"

Chester (from "Gunsmoke"), and most famously, "McCloud"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/02/27/entertainment/e171650S53.DTL

I never saw McCloud, so he will always be Chester to me!

That's a shame!  One of my favorite affectations is to respond as he always to did to Capt. Clifford:  "Wull thar ya go, Chief."

The above obit piece failed to mention his role in Touch of Evil, as the squirrelly motel clerk.  Hitchcock was said to have based Anthony Perkins role in Psycho on Weaver's protrayal of this character.

Barney, Kolchak and now Chester/McCloud -- my wasted youth in front of the TV is dying...

RIP, guys.

Title: RIP Dennis Weaver
Post by: RGMike on February 28, 2006, 01:06:25 PM

iirc, some folks thought McCloud was ripped off from the Eastwood film Coogan's Bluff. (Both the show and the film originated at Universal.) I think there was a lawsuit.