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James Arness was born in Minneapolis. [1] His parents were businessman Rolf Cirkler Aurness and journalist Ruth Duesler. His father's ancestry was Norwegian; his mother's was German. [2] The family name had been Aursnes, but when Rolf's father, Peter Aursnes, emigrated from Norway in 1887, he changed it to Aurness. [3]
Aurness is the son of Gunsmoke actor James Arness (who died on June 3, 2011 [4]) and nephew of Mission Impossible actor Peter Graves. [1] [2]In the decade following his World Surfing Championship win Aurness fell out of surfing due to the deaths of his wife, mother, and sister.
Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, [3] [4] the younger son of Rolf Cirkler Aurness (1894–1982), a businessman, and his wife, Ruth (née Duesler, died 1986), a journalist.
James Arness: Main: Kitty Russell Amanda Blake: Main: Doc Galen Adams Milburn Stone: Main: Chester Goode: Dennis Weaver: Main: Sam Noonan Glenn Strange: Main: Quint Asper Burt Reynolds: Main: Festus Haggen Ken Curtis: Main: Thaddeus Greenwood Roger Ewing: Main: Newly O'Brien Buck Taylor: Main
Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942. Curtis may have served simply as ...
James Arness was the father or stepfather of four kids - 1. Craig Aurness was Virginia's son from her first marriage, and Jim adopted him when he and Virginia married
While delivering flowers, he heard he had landed the role of Chester Goode, the limping, loyal assistant of Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) on the new television series Gunsmoke. It was his big break; the show went on to become the highest-rated and longest-running live action series in United States television history (1955 to 1975), an ...
NP James Arness (1923–2011), actor [7] Isaac Colton Ash (1861–1933), Los Angeles City Council member 1925–27 Roscoe Ates (1895–1962), actor and comedian [ 9 ]