After being Marshal Matt Dillon on the iconic Western series Gunsmoke, James Arness starred in the underrated TV remake of ...

Show business is famously competitive -- writers trying to get a script read, actors vying for the same parts. Every once in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Arness' Marshal Matt Dillon looks into camera as he stands outside in Gunsmoke - CBS We may receive a commission on ...

James Arness' Marshal Dillon may have starred in 20 seasons of Gunsmoke, but his sole big screen appearance is in this 1959 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born Peter and James Aurness in Minneapolis, the brothers took different professional names and very different paths to stardom.

A son shared stories about his father serving in the Army with James Arness during World War II and another reader set a goal to watch the entire "Gunsmoke" series. After reading a story about James ...

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall -- 6 feet, 6 inches -- on "Gunsmoke" from 1955 to 1975.

James Arness, the 6-foot-6 actor who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88. The actor died in his sleep ...

The star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness (formerly had been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ...

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