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Dennis Weaver is a Actor American born on 4 june 1924 at Joplin (USA)
William Dennis Weaver, né le 4 juin 1924 à Joplin, Missouri, et mort d'un cancer le 24 février 2006 à Ridgway, Colorado, est un acteur américain.
De 1955 à 1964, il joue dans la série Gunsmoke. Au cinéma, il interprète en 1958 le rôle du veilleur de nuit névrosé dans La Soif du mal d'Orson Welles. Entre 1970 et 1977, il interprète le shérif Sam McCloud dans la série policière Un shérif à New York. Son rôle le plus connu est celui de David Mann dans le téléfilm Duel de Steven Spielberg en 1971 (adapté en version longue pour le cinéma en 1973). Il y joue le rôle d'un conducteur, harcelé et menacé par un poids lourd. À la télévision, il apparaît en guest star dans un épisode des Simpson.
Il enregistre plusieurs disques de musique country et monte des spectacles shakespeariens dans lesquels il joue jusqu'à 19 rôles.
Jusqu'à son décès, il est l'époux de Gerry Stowell (du 20 octobre 1945 au 24 février 2006) et a trois fils : Rick, Robby et Rusty. Il n'a aucun lien de parenté avec l'acteur Fritz Weaver ni avec l'actrice Sigourney Weaver.
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Dennis Weaver
Birth name William Dennis Weaver
Nationality USA
Birth 4 june 1924 at Joplin (USA)
Death 24 february 2006 (at 81 years) at Ridgway (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 june 1924 at Joplin (USA)
Death 24 february 2006 (at 81 years) at Ridgway (USA)
Biography
Il est diplômé de l’université d'Oklahoma. Dennis Weaver a été pilote dans la Naval Air Corps . C'est après avoir échoué à se qualifier pour les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1948, dans l'épreuve du décathlon, qu'il décide de se lancer dans la carrière d'acteur.De 1955 à 1964, il joue dans la série Gunsmoke. Au cinéma, il interprète en 1958 le rôle du veilleur de nuit névrosé dans La Soif du mal d'Orson Welles. Entre 1970 et 1977, il interprète le shérif Sam McCloud dans la série policière Un shérif à New York. Son rôle le plus connu est celui de David Mann dans le téléfilm Duel de Steven Spielberg en 1971 (adapté en version longue pour le cinéma en 1973). Il y joue le rôle d'un conducteur, harcelé et menacé par un poids lourd. À la télévision, il apparaît en guest star dans un épisode des Simpson.
Il enregistre plusieurs disques de musique country et monte des spectacles shakespeariens dans lesquels il joue jusqu'à 19 rôles.
Jusqu'à son décès, il est l'époux de Gerry Stowell (du 20 octobre 1945 au 24 février 2006) et a trois fils : Rick, Robby et Rusty. Il n'a aucun lien de parenté avec l'acteur Fritz Weaver ni avec l'actrice Sigourney Weaver.
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Home on the Range (2004)
, 1h16Directed by Will Finn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Animation, Western
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about cows, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding Jr., Randy Quaid, Jennifer Tilly, Steve Buscemi
Roles Abner (voice)
Rating54%
Maggie is the only cow left on the Dixon Ranch after Alameda Slim (a cattle rustler capable of stealing 500 in a single night) stole all the rest of Mr. Dixon's cattle. Dixon sells Maggie to Pearl, a kind and elderly woman who runs a small farm called Patch of Heaven. The local Sheriff arrives to tell Pearl that her bank is cracking down on debtors. Pearl has three days to pay the bank $750, or her farm will be sold to the highest bidder. Hearing this, Maggie convinces the other cows on the farm (Grace, a happy-go-lucky character, and Mrs. Caloway, who has had leadership gone to her head) to go to town to attempt winning prize money at a fair. While the cows are in town, a bounty hunter named Rico (who Buck, the Sheriff's horse, idolizes) drops a criminal off and collects the reward. Stating he needs a replacement horse to go after Alameda Slim while his own horse rests, he takes Buck. When Maggie find out that the reward for capturing Slim is of exactly $750, she convinces the other cows to try to capture him to save Patch of Heaven.
Directed by Jerry London
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Janine Turner, Patrick Bergin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Michael Greyeyes, William Shockley, Rodney Arnold Grant
Roles Captain Farnsworth
Rating71%
The story is set on the plains of Kansas in 1868, where General George Custer has destroyed a village of Cheyenne Indians. Seeking revenge, a band of Lakota Indians led by Tokalah (Michael Greyeyes) attack a wagon train headed to Fort Hays, Kansas, where they kill everyone in the wagons. However, strangely, when Tokalah comes to the remaining wagon that is driven by Anna Brewster (Janine Turner), he lets her and her pregnant friend go.
Two Bits & Pepper (1995)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Dennis Weaver, Joe Piscopo, Timothy Redwine, Ethan Erickson
Roles Sheriff Pratt
Rating39%
A Winner Never Quits (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Mel Damski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Keith Carradine, Mare Winningham, G. W. Bailey, Dennis Weaver, Ed O'Neill, Dana Delany
Roles Mr. Wyshner
Rating68%
Raised in the Northeastern Pennsylvania mining town of Nanticoke, Pete Gray loses his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his immigrant parents, Antoinette and Peter Wyshner, Sr., and the constant coaching of his older brother Whitey, Gray never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet handicapped youngster Nelson Gary, Jr., who idolizes him, that Gray finally comes to terms with several life realizations.
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983)
, 1h37Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Dennis Weaver, Karen Grassle, Pamela Bellwood, James Spader, Jeffrey Tambor, Denise Crosby
Roles Eddie Gant
Rating69%
Eddie Gant (Weaver) was once a highly successful real estate agent, the number one for over ten years, but is now struggling to sell houses, and is frustrated that the company’s top salesman is now Tad Voss (Le Plat), a young snob. He is pressured into selling family houses, considered a dead market, and wants to break out but does not know how. When his boss Dan Hatten (Venture) does not make him partner even though he promised him, Eddie suffers a major setback, and finds solace with cocaine, arranged through his business friends Robin Barstowe (Bellwood) and Bruce Neumann (Ackroyd).
Don't Go to Sleep (1982)
, 1h33Directed by Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Valerie Harper, Dennis Weaver, Ruth Gordon, Oliver Robins, Claudette Nevins, Robert Webber
Roles Phillip
Rating64%
The premise of the story is that a father, Phillip (played by Weaver) and mother, Laura (played by Harper) and their two children Kevin and Mary (played by Robins and Ignico, respectively) move out of Los Angeles (as seen in the opening credits) to a house up north in the countryside. Moving in with the family would be their grandmother (played by Gordon), whom nobody in the family other than Laura cared for very much. The family had just suffered the tragedy of losing their oldest daughter Jennifer (played by Cumming) and hope to regroup and start a new life without her.
The Day the Loving Stopped (1981)
, 1h40Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Dominique Dunne, Ally Sheedy, Arlene Martel
Roles Aaron Danner
Rating67%
As Judy Danner (Dunne) is about to marry her college sweetheart Danny Reanolds (Canning), she starts to question if marrying the man she loves is the right decision, considering how her parents, psychologist Aaron (Weaver) and Norma (Harper), have divorced bitterly. The film is told mostly in flashbacks, as Judy and her younger sister Debbie (Sheedy) reflect their parents' marriage. As children, Judy (Noel) and Debbie (Glick) are very happy, living with their parents under the same roof. Norma, however, is unhappy with her marriage. She constantly gets upset with Aaron and suspects that he might have an affair with one of his patients due to his recurring late night visits to them. Despite the children's protests, they decide to divorce each other.
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978)
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dennis Weaver, Eloy Casados, Joaquín Martínez, Geno Silva
Roles Prof. Benjamin Fuller
Rating67%
Intimate Strangers (1977)
, 1h36Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dennis Weaver, Sally Struthers, Tyne Daly, Larry Hagman, Melvyn Douglas, Quinn Cummings
Roles Donald Halston
Rating64%
Donald Halston (Dennis Weaver) loses a policy at work, leading to a financial setback. He takes out this personal and financial humiliation on his loving wife Janice (Sally Struthers). After a fight over her daily spendings, he accidentally pushes her, causing her to spill coffee over herself. He immediately apologizes, and Janice does not wait long before forgiving him. The next morning, she runs into an old friend Karen Renshaw (Tyne Daly), who once left town for Florida but is now working as a drafts woman. They quickly become best friends.
Rolling Man (1972)
, 1h13Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Dennis Weaver, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Agnes Moorehead, Jimmy Dean, Sheree North
Roles Lonnie McAfee
Rating60%
, 1h41Directed by Curtis Harrington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Musical, Crime, Romance
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Dean Stanton, Peggy Rea
Roles Lincoln Palmer
Rating62%
Leonard Hill and Wesley Bruckner are seen being loaded into a paddywagon to face life sentences in prison for the Iowa murder of Ellie Banner. Their mothers, Helen Hill (Shelley Winters) and Adelle Bruckner (Debbie Reynolds) fight a crowd to their car.
Duel (1971)
, 1h14Directed by Steven Spielberg, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Dennis Weaver, Carey Loftin, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell, Eugene Dynarski
Roles David Mann
Rating75%
David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a middle-aged Los Angeles electronics salesman driving his red 1971 Plymouth Valiant sedan on a business trip. On a two-lane highway in the California desert, he encounters a grimy and rusty 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck, traveling slower than the speed limit and expelling thick plumes of sooty diesel exhaust. Mann passes the unsightly truck, which promptly roars past him and then slows down again. Mann is unmoved, passing the truck a second time, and is startled when it suddenly issues a long air horn blast.
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
, 1h33Directed by Vic Morrow
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins, John Marley, Wayde Preston, Laura Antonelli
Roles Erwin Ward
Rating59%
Dans le Far West, un proscrit gunfighting connivence son chemin dans une prison dans l'espoir de mettre la main sur une importante cargaison d'or qui y sont stockées.
Gentle Giant (1967)
, 1h33Directed by James Neilson
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Clint Howard, Huntz Hall, Rance Howard
Roles Tom Wedloe
Rating60%
Tom (Dennis Weaver) and Ellen Wedloe (Vera Miles) live with their young son Mark (Clint Howard) near a Florida game reserve. Tom is a pilot who works as a spotter to locate schools of fish for the local fishermen to catch, but recently fish have been scarce, causing economic hardship for the local fishermen and Tom. Young Mark loves animals of all kinds.
Way... Way Out (1966)
, 1h46Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Connie Stevens, Jerry Lewis, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg, Dick Shawn, James Brolin
Roles Hoffman
Rating53%
The year is 1989, and the United States continues to be engaged in a Space Race with the Soviet Union.