Before Dennis Weaver became best known for playing Chester Goode in Gunsmoke, he was just another struggling actor, working in flower delivery to save money — but the story of how he landed his iconic ...
LOS ANGELES -- Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke" and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in "McCloud," has died. The actor was 81.