He's best remembered for playing Marshal Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke," but James Arness also starred in a short-lived cop drama ...

Arness was brought on to play U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke after CBS had already cast Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty. They had outstanding chemistry that radiated on-screen. The leading actor ...

Arness first joined Gunsmoke at the inception of its adaptation from radio to television in 1955. Fans of the radio program weren’t initially very happy to see William Conrad replaced, as they were ...

For 20 years, television audiences rode into Dodge City with Marshal Matt Dillon on a weekly basis, and when Gunsmoke finally ended in 1975, James Arness had quietly become one of the most familiar ...

The actor died in his sleep at his home in Brentwood, California, on Friday, according to his business manager, Ginny Fazer. Arness's official website posted a letter from Arness on Friday that he ...

James Arness, who presided over the frontier town of Dodge City as television’s most enduring western hero, the laconic, fair-minded and incorruptible Marshal Matt Dillon of the two-decade-long series ...

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 ...

James Arness, a great Sequoia tree in the forest of TV Western heroes, has died; he was 88. Arness is immortal in TV history as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, the longest-running network drama in ...

One of television's greatest actors has passed away. James Arness, star of the Western series Gunsmoke has died. He was 88. Jim passed away this morning at home with his wife of natural causes. He ...

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 actor died in his sleep at his home in Brentwood, Calif., according to his business manager, Ginny Fazer. /* Arness'*/ official website posted a letter from Arness on Friday that he wrote with the ...