-- James Arness, the 6' 7" actor best known for playing Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" for 20 years, has died at 88. Arness passed away of natural causes Friday.Arness's death comes a year after ...

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 ...

Gunsmoke finds Arness playing Marshal Matt Dillon, who is in charge of Dodge City. However, this town is an incredibly dangerous part of the West. Many of its citizens have no respect for the law and ...

According to a TV Guide interview, Arness refused to film Gunsmoke on certain days. As a result, he threatened to quit if the production didn’t allow him to keep to his weekly routine. The producers ...

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 ...

Through all those gunslinging years, James Arness, who died Friday, kept Marshal Dillon righteous, peace-seeking and, most of all, believable. Fickle viewers can kill a TV hero as surely as a bullet ...

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 ...

Although Taylor Sheridan has transformed the landscape of Western TV over recent years, the iconic CBS series Gunsmoke still reigns supreme as the greatest show in the genre’s history. The show couldn ...