Dennis Weaver Dead at 81

[Sarek]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- 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.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/27/obit.weaver.ap/index.html

Well, that makes 3.

 

[Number_6]

I don't think I've ever seen three celebrity deaths come this close to one another.

 

[Shatna]

Crap. He starred in one of the best Twilight Zone episodes. And 'Duel' is a classic.

 

[curiousa2z]

ye gods...Dennis Weaver was 81??!!!
I liked his drawl.
RIP.
Well, that's 3

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

I don't think I've ever seen three celebrity deaths come this close to one another.

No kidding. Bang-bang-bang, three down, and all in a day or two. It's pretty sad that all the old-time television greats are dropping like flies now.