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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
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.
Arness and Chapman also had a son, Rolf (born February 18, 1952), [16] and a daughter, Jenny Lee Arness (May 23, 1950 – May 12, 1975). Rolf Aurness became World Surfing Champion in 1970. [17] Craig Arness founded the stock photography agency Westlight and also was a photographer for National Geographic. [18]
Gunsmoke is set in and around Dodge City, Kansas, in the post-Civil War era and centers on United States Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) as he enforces law and order in the city.
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
Clockwise from top: Ken Curtis (Festus), Arness (Matt), Amanda Blake (Kitty) and Milburn Stone (Doc) in 1968. Gunsmoke is an American Western television series developed by Charles Marquis Warren and based on the radio program of the same name. [1] The series ran for 20 seasons, making it the longest-running Western in television history.
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 ...
Around 1967, Thordis Brandt met Gunsmoke's leading actor James Arness, [2] [3] who was her boyfriend for six years before they ended their relationship. [ 4 ] After retiring from acting, she continued nursing in Beverly Hills.