Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver, best known for his roles in the television series Gunsmoke and McCloud, and for his driver-in-distress in Steven Spielberg’s made-for-TV thriller Duel, died of cancer on Feb. 24 at his home in the southwestern Colorado town of Ridgway. He was 81.
Born in Joplin, Mo., on June 4, 1924, Weaver studied at New York’s Actors Studio. He made his Broadway debut in Out West of 8th, directed by Burgess Meredith, and later played opposite Shelley Winters in a stage production of Tennessee Williams‘ A Streetcar Named Desire. He also toured with Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer in William Inge’s Come Back, Little Sheba.
In the mid-1950s, Weaver became famous as the dim-witted deputy Chester Goode — for which [...]
by Andre Soares | February 28, 2006
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Tags: Dennis Weaver, Duel, Gunsmoke, McCloud, Steven Spielberg, Touch of Evil, TV classics
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh, whose shower scene in Psycho has become part of cinema’s pop iconography, died yesterday, Oct. 3, at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77. In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
Though best remembered as the greedy (and unlucky) office worker who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), a role for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination, Leigh had a remarkable career that spanned more than five decades.
Remarkable indeed, considering that after being discovered by former MGM Queen Norma Shearer while at a ski resort in the late 1940s, Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison [...]
by Andre Soares | October 4, 2004
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Bye Bye Birdie, Classic Movies, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, There Really Was a Hollywood, Tony Curtis, Touch of Evil
