Weaver played Chester Goode on Gunsmoke, quickly becoming one of the most beloved characters on the show. He joined the original cast alongside Arness, Amanda Blake, and Milburn Stone. They had ...

Dennis Weaver thought there was a terrible mistake when he was reading for the part of Chester on 'Gunsmoke' instead of the role of Matt Dillon. Weaver went freelance in his acting work, although had ...

Recently, Dennis Weaver called his old “Gunsmoke” castmate Jim Arness to wish him a happy birthday. After all, Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon to Weaver’s Chester Goode, bought Weaver a ...

QUESTION: I’m old enough to remember the very start of Gunsmoke with Matt Dillon (James Arness) as marshal. His sidekick then was a fellow named Chester, played by Dennis Weaver. Why is it that we ...

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. Weaver ...

Dennis Weaver, the lanky actor with the gentle drawl who came to fame in the 1950s playing Marshal Matt Dillon’s limping deputy, Chester, on “Gunsmoke” and later starred as a contemporary western ...