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Acting

Dennis Weaver

Career: Active from 1952 to 2000, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 36
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Duel
81/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Dennis Weaver Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.7, average 5.4
Fantasy
0.6, average 1.7
Cringe Humor
1.1, average 2.2
Satire & Parody
1.3, average 2.3

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Historical Drama 5
Political Intrigue 4
Psychological Thriller 4
Western 3
Crime Drama 2
Period Piece 2
Betrayal 2
Wholesome Entertainment 2
Overcoming Adversity 2
Intrigue 2
Character Study 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

87

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

5 titles · average score 48

Wildfire

53

TV show · as Henry Ritter

Home on the Range

50

as Abner (voice)

The Virginian

56

as Sam Balaam

Submerged

29

as Buck Stevens

High Noon

54

as Mart Howe

1990s

13 titles · average score 63

Family Law

74

TV show · as Judge Richard Lloyd

Escape from Wildcat Canyon

65

as Grandpa Flint

Seduction in a Small Town

65

as Sam Jenks

Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

77

as Captain Farnsworth

E! True Hollywood Story

48

TV show

Two Bits & Pepper

51

as Sheriff Pratt

Lonesome Dove: The Series

69

TV show · as Buffalo Bill Cody

Touched by an Angel

44

TV show · as Emmett Rivers

Greyhounds

as Chance Wayne

Mastergate

as Vice President Dale Burden

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

72

TV show

Great Adventurers & Their Quests: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

as Narrator

1980s

16 titles · average score 70

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Buck McCoy (voice)

The Return of Sam McCloud

as Sam McCloud

Buck James

TV show · as Dr. Buck James

Bluffing It

as Jack Duggan

Emerald Point N.A.S.

TV show · as Rear Adm. Thomas Mallory

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

60

as Eddie Gant

Don't Go to Sleep

65

as Phillip

The Day the Loving Stopped

as Aaron Danner

Stone

TV show · as Det. Sgt. Daniel Stone

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

62

as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd

Amber Waves

78

as Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt

Magnum, P.I.

82

TV show · as Lacy Fletcher

1970s

19 titles · average score 63

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

as Charles Bates

Pearl

62

TV show · as Col. Jason Forrest

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

as Prof. Benjamin Fuller

Intimate Strangers

57

as Donald Halston

Female Artillery

as Deke Chambers

Terror on the Beach

52

as Neil Glynn

The Great Man's Whiskers

as Abraham Lincoln

Duel

81

as David Mann

What's the Matter with Helen?

54

as Linc Palmer

The Forgotten Man

as Lt. Joe Hardy

McCloud

71

TV show · as Sam McCloud

A Man Called Sledge

56

as Erwin Ward

1960s

13 titles · average score 66

Mission Batangas

as Chip Corbett

The Name of the Game

73

TV show · as Walter Grayson

Gentle Ben

66

TV show · as Tom Wedloe

Gentle Giant

65

as Tom Wedloe

Judd, for the Defense

76

TV show

Duel at Diablo

62

as Willard Grange

Way... Way Out

61

as Hoffman

That Girl

45

TV show

TV show · as Kentucky Jones

Combat!

82

TV show · as Noah

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Wayne Wandemeir

The Gallant Hours

66

as Andy Lowe

1950s

21 titles · average score 64

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Adam Grant

Touch of Evil

89

as Mirador Motel Night Manager

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Chester

Storm Fear

58

as Hank

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Charles Cavender

Ten Wanted Men

56

as Sheriff Clyde Gibbons

Climax!

51

TV show · as Steve Maclyn

Column South

61

as Menguito

Law and Order

58

as Frank Durling

The Man from the Alamo

82

as Tennessean (uncredited)

The Lawless Breed

64

as Jim Clements

Dragnet

46

TV show · as Russ Camp