This strange quality was apparent when he got cast as Chester Goode on the long-running CBS TV Western "Gunsmoke." As the ...

The performance that made Spielberg leap at casting Weaver wasn't Chester from "Gunsmoke" (which was the point of reference that Eckstein and ABC liked) but rather Weaver's turn as a hotel Night ...

It’s true — where there’s Gunsmoke, there’s fire ... Dennis Weaver as Chester B. Goode, and Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen. Over its 635 episodes — initially half-hour black and white ...