McCloud - another good one gone

[flippyshark]

Dennis Weaver, best known as McCloud, has passed away at age 81. (The early eighties appear to be hazardous to the health of TV actors this week.) I liked Mccloud a lot as a youngster, but I haven't seen it in ages.

My own favorite Weaver appearances are:

DUEL - Dennis Weaver is up against an unseen but psycho truck driver in this Spielberg made-for-TV classic.

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN? - A campy, creepy movie from 1971 starring Debbie Reynolds and the also recently departed Shelley Winters. Weaver is the romantic interest in this colorful entry in the "has-been horror hag" cycle, written by Henry Farrell, author of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE. (By the way, HELEN makes an ideal double feature with the very disturbing DAY OF THE LOCUST.)

[Not Afraid]

Awww, I really always liked Dennis Weaver. He was always very comforting to watch. He always reminded me a bit of my brother.


Oooh! He was in Touch of Evil too!

[jdramj]

He will be missed! I watched "Gentle Ben" reruns growing up.

His ranch in Ridgway, Colorado is beautiful, and he raised llamas. He was very cordial to me and my family and took us for a tour of his place several years back, but one of his llamas wasn't nice, it spit on me....yuck! He was a very down to earth regular guy. He and my father were friends, I think my father even bought a llama from him.

I know he didn't have a lot of fans in the southern part of Colorado, his environmental lobbying was jepordizing their already small ecomony and was threatening their old ghost towns and mine ruins. I guess you can't please all the people all the time.