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 career of James Arness almost came to a very pointed end, just as Gunsmoke was taking off. Arness etched his name in the halls of pop culture history as Marshall Matt Dillon, the heroic lawman who ...
On Sept. 10, 1955, the Western premiered on CBS before kicking off a 20-season, 635-episode run. By Hal Landers On Sept. 10, 1955, the iconic Western series Gunsmoke premiered on CBS from 10 ...
Offscreen, James Arness traded Dodge City’s saloon dust for the comfort of his own king-size bed. Photographed in 1956, the towering Gunsmoke star relaxes with a script for an upcoming episode, ...
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