RIP Dennis Weaver

[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

[ggould]

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!

[mshray]

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.

[Lightnin' Rod]

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.

[RGMike]

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.