Dennis Weaver

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, DIRECTOR

Dennis Weaver Movies or Tv Shows (upto Mar 2024) - Watch Online

29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Dennis Weaver first became familiar to television audiences as Matt Dillon's deputy Chester Goode in Rauchende Colts (1955). After playing the part for nine years, he moved on to star in his own series, Kentucky Jones (1964). However, the show failed to find mass appeal and was cancelled after just one season. Weaver had to wait another five years before finally emerging as a TV star in his own right. Beginning in 1971, he portrayed the titular Marshal Sam McCloud, a lawman from Taos, New Mexico, working in New York to learn the ways of policing in Manhattan's 27th Precinct under the auspices of a frequently apoplectic Chief of Detectives, Peter Clifford (J.D. Cannon). Accented in a slow Texan drawl (his regular catchphrase was "There you go..") and decked out with cowboy hat, lasso and sheepskin jacket, McCloud went about his tasks pretty much the same way he would have done out in the West -- often to the chagrin of his boss, nevertheless always apprehending the villain in the end (sometimes on horseback). His fractious relationship with Clifford provided much of the enjoyment inherent in the show. Weaver later recalled "McCloud was the kind of role I left Gunsmoke to get... I wanted to be a leading man instead of a second banana." Between 1971 and 1977, Ein Sheriff in New York (1970) (based in part on the Clint Eastwood film Coogans großer Bluff (1968)) was part of Universal's "Mystery Movie" which filled a slot at NBC with films lasting from 74 to 97 minutes (longer than your average TV episode) and which rotated several productions, the most important being Columbo (1971) (Peter Falk), Banacek (1972) (George Peppard), McMillan & Wife (1971) (Rock Hudson) and Hec Ramsey (1972) (Richard Boone).Weaver hailed from Joplin, Missouri, where his father (who was of mixed English, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, and Osage ancestry) worked for the local electric company. Young Dennis proved himself a gifted track and field athlete while studying for a degree in fine arts at the University of Oklahoma. During World War II, he served as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. After the war, Weaver forsook sports for a career on the stage, undertaking further drama classes at the Actor's Studio in New York. One of his fellow alumni was actress Shelley Winters who later helped him to get into films. Following his Broadway debut in "Come Back, Little Sheba", Weaver found work in plays by Tennessee Williams off-Broadway and then made his movie debut at Universal in the western Fluch der Verlorenen (1952). He made several more pictures, mostly westerns, but was largely cast in minor roles. He languished in relative obscurity until he landed several guest spots on Jack Webb's Dragnet (1951). His career really took off with McCloud and with the Steven Spielberg-directed Duell (1971), a thriller made for the small screen (essentially a one-man show) in which a lone driver is menaced by a sinister petrol tanker driven by an unseen force. He later found other regular television work (Stone (1979), Emerald Point (1983) and Buck James (1987)), but none of these managed to recapture his earlier successes. In Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994), he was true to his colours, playing western hero William F. Cody, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill.Weaver served as President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1973 to 1975. He was in the forefront of environmental activism, a proponent of alternative energy and recycling (his Colorado home, called "Earthship", was primarily constructed from recycled tyres and aluminium cans). - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Dennis Weaver’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Dennis Weaver on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2002. See the full graphs of the number of Dennis Weaver movies released per year from 1986 till 2002.

Top Genres

Dennis Weaver works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 47% of Dennis Weaver movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Dennis Weaver worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Dennis Weaver has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Dennis Weaver's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Thriller
Duel (1971)

A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.

7.6/1090 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

A real estate salesman with career and marriage problems gets hooked on cocaine, and finds that not only does it not help him cope with them, but it makes them much, much worse.

7.1/1097 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

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 women.

6.7/1073 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Romance,War
Pearl (1978)

The lives of several personnel and residents at and around the Pearl Harbor naval base are changed forever on December 7, 1941.

6.5/10278 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

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.

6.5/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

In the Old West, a gunfighting outlaw connives his way into a prison in hopes of getting his hands on a large shipment of gold stored there.

5.9/1093 min

Available in 9 platform(s).