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Gunsmoke's Weaver Makes a Return
Dennis Weaver will co-star in ABC Family's upcoming upcoming ranch-set series
Wildfire.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
By Lisa Johnson
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Weaver makes his return to series television
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Dennis Weaver, most famous for his work in the Western Gunsmoke, is back in the saddle on a television series, co-starring in ABC Family's Wildfire. He plays the eccentric owner of a thoroughbred racing ranch.
Wildfire is a contemporary drama in which a troubled teenage girl (Genevieve Cortese) tries to cope with situations on a ranch after she is released from a juvenile detention center. Weaver's character has his own challenges and finding the girl in his life adds to the conflicts in his already tumultuous life.
Also starring in the two-hour premiere segment are Nana Visitor, Greg Serano and Micah Alberti, along with Nicole Tubiola, Andrew Hoeft, Ryan Sypek and James Read. Wildfire was directed by Steve Miner and produced by Lions Gate Television.
Famed for his colorful roles in Gunsmoke, McCloud and other long-running shows, Weaver has kept busy since 1995 when his Lonesome Dove series ended. Besides guest roles, a part in Disney's animated feature Home on the Range and stage appearances, Weaver and his wife, Gerry, created the Institute of Ecolonomics, to fight global atmospheric pollution.
Weaver combined the words economics and ecology to form ecolonomics. In his recent semi-autobiography, All the World's a Stage, Weaver reveals how ecolonomics is encouraging businesses to prosper while cleaning the planet. Ecolonomics is now taught at several colleges, and Weaver is becoming recognized as the godfather of the hydrogen automobile.
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