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James Arness (born James King Aurness; May 26, 1923 – June 3, 2011) was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke.
From 1955 to 1961, Gunsmoke was a half-hour show, retitled Marshal Dillon in syndication. It then went to an hour-long format. The series was retitled Gun Law in the UK. The Marshal Dillon syndicated reruns of half-hour episodes lasted from 1961 until 1964 on CBS, originally on Tuesday nights within its time in reruns.
After the war, he married Gerry Stowell (his childhood sweetheart), with whom he had three children. Under the name Billy D. Weaver, he tried out for the 1948 U.S. Olympic team in the decathlon, [3] finishing sixth behind 17-year-old high school track star Bob Mathias. However, only the top three finishers were selected. [4]
Matt Dillon: 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
Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He is the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas , who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s.
Marshal Dillon may refer to: Marshal Matt Dillon , the lead male character on the U.S. radio and television series Gunsmoke Marshal Dillon , the title sometimes used for the half-hour television episodes of the first six seasons of Gunsmoke after new episodes were expanded to one hour in length
Dillon read them all, and with the help of his mom, read most of Whitehead’s book and says he couldn’t wait to play Homer. “When I first got the script, that’s when I knew who Homer was ...
Arvo Oswald Ojala (February 21, 1920 – July 1, 2005) was a Hollywood technical advisor on the subject of quick-draw with a revolver. [1] He also worked as an actor; his most famous role was that of the unnamed man shot by Marshal Matt Dillon in the opening sequences of the long-running television series Gunsmoke.