Most know Dennis Weaver as Deputy Chester Goode in Gunsmoke. – Courtesy CBS –
How did Chester Goode, Matt Dillon’s assistant on Gunsmoke, get his limp?
Frank Cutler
Sodus, New York
Chester Goode supposedly got that wound during the Civil War.
Now why did somebody decide to give the character a disability? Some say the producers of the show thought it could explain why he didn’t carry a pistol. Others claim that actor Dennis Weaver used the limp and his twang to draw more
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