The Continuation Of A Great Career!

From 1973 to 1975, Dennis served as President of the Screen Actors Guild and received "The Ralph Morgan Award" for outstanding service to his fellow members. In 1986, he received his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; and in 1988 received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from RyokanCollege. He was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1981, as well as winning two "best acting" awards from the group for ISHI and CENTENNIAL. Dennis also received the Yugoslavian equivalent of an Academy Award in 1972. He has also been honored by Haven Hills, a home for battered women and the Pacific Lodge Boys' Home. In 1990, Dennis received two additional humanitarian awards....one from The Inside Edge and the other, "The Louella Parsons Award" from the Hollywood Women's Press Association.

Another facet of Dennis's career began in 1982 when he became the spokesperson for Great Western Bank. The integrity of this institution and of Dennis Weaver made this one of America's most successful advertising campaigns.

For 9 years Dennis was the on camera spokesman for Encore's Westerns Channel, which shows continuous Western movies from the good 'ole hey days of the classic Western. Dennis provides the viewer with tidbits of information about the film that they are about to see. He also hosted the story of Hopalong Cassidy.

In 1983, Gerry and Dennis, Valerie Harper and her husband, Tony, founded Love Is Feeding Everyone(L.I.F.E.). Once providing supplemental food to 400 people each week, through Dennis's leadership, as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, L.I.F.E. supported 200 agencies who collectively fed
150,000 hungry people a week in Los Angeles County. L.I.F.E. served as a role model for groups throughout the U.S. who wished to launch a program similar to L.I.F.E. His work with L.I.F.E. earned Dennis the 1986 Presidential End Hunger Award.

A man of action, Dennis lived in a home he built.....an environmentally friendly solar-powered mass house made from recycled automobile tires and cans. It is called an "Earthship" - an independent sustainable living space......a living space that is not dependent on archaic centralized energy systems that are greatly damaging the planet. The "Earthship" is the brainchild of Taos, New Mexico architect, Michael Reynolds. An environmental film describing the building of Dennis' beautiful Southwestern style EARTHSHIP is available for purchase. In fact, the film, for three years, was shown on PBS stations across the country. (see memorabilia store)

A much sought-after speaker, Dennis was continually being invited to share his views on the environment...be it at the United Nations, on college campuses across the country, or Windstar's "Choices For The Future" Symposium in Aspen. His speaking engagements are numerous. In 1990, he narrated an EARTH DAY special for NBC.
His environmental film, EARTHSHIP was shown at the 1991 International Environmental Film Festival in Boulder and was shown again this year at the US Environmental Film Festival in Colorado Springs. Dennis actively supported the United States' participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio (the Earth Summit) in June of '92. In May of '92, he delivered his now famous "Mc Cloud" Senate speech as part of the preparatory conference for UNCED, which was held in the UN's General Assembly. Dennis served on the Board of Directors of ECO (Earth Communications Office)... a group of creative people from the entertainment industry who are dedicated to using their power of communication to inform and influence people to take action to save the home we all share...our wondrous Mother Earth.
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