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Billy Dennis Weaver [1] (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006.
Walter Jack Palance [1] (/ ˈ p æ l ən s / PAL-əns; born Volodymyr Ivanovych Palahniuk; [a] February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains.
After Gunsmoke ended, Arness performed in Western-themed movies and television series, including How the West Was Won, and in five made-for-television Gunsmoke movies between 1987 and 1994. An exception was as a big-city police officer in a short-lived 1981–1982 series, McClain's Law , starring with Marshall Colt .
This list contains notable cast members of the Gunsmoke radio and TV series, and TV movies. [1] The listing includes regular cast members, guest stars, and recurring cast members. Radio cast
William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, [2] with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s ...
[31] Reynolds left Gunsmoke in 1965. He later said that being in that show was "the happiest period of my life. I hated to leave that show but I felt I had served my apprenticeship and there wasn't room for two leading men." [30] He was cast in his first lead role in a movie, the low-budget action movie, Operation C.I.A. (1965).
Wilke appeared in many television Westerns, including seven episodes each of NBC's Laramie and CBS's Gunsmoke. [3] [4]Robert J. Wilke in a 1960 episode of Bonanza. Wilke played a hired gun in The Far Country (1954) and continued to work steadily in films and television over the next 20 years.
That same year, Strange appeared in an uncredited role as the sheriff in Silver Rapids in the Western movie The Fastest Gun Alive starring Glenn Ford. In 1958, he had a minor part in an episode of John Payne 's The Restless Gun , and had an important role in the 1958 episode "Chain Gang" of the Western series 26 Men , true stories about the ...