He had a very different kind of job before landing the part.

Dennis Weaver, one of television's iconic cowboys and a committed environmentalist, has died of cancer. He was 81. Weaver, who played diffident deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke ...

It's hard to undersell the impact "Gunsmoke" had on the television landscape when it first aired. Westerns for the small screen were largely occupied by kid-friendly fare like Roy Rogers and Hopalong ...

On "Gunsmoke," Dennis Weaver was best known as the stumbling deputy Chester Goode, so why did he leave the CBS drama behind?

To generations of TV watchers, the late Dennis Weaver was beloved for playing cowboys and lawmen. His most enduring characters include Chester, the endearing and forever-loyal sidekick in “Gunsmoke.” ...