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Stone's brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. [5] Stone was a cousin of the character actress Madge Blake. [6] In March 1971, [7] Stone had heart bypass surgery at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack [8] in La Jolla.
Howard Terbell McNear (January 27, 1905 – January 3, 1969 [2] [3]) was an American stage, screen, and radio character actor.McNear is best remembered as the original voice of Doc Adams in the radio version of Gunsmoke and as Floyd Lawson (Floyd the Barber) on The Andy Griffith Show (1961–1967).
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.
Amanda Blake (born Beverly Louise Neill, February 20, 1929 [1] – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the western television series Gunsmoke.
Despite his stoic character, according to Ben Bates, his Gunsmoke stunt double, Arness laughed "from his toes to the top of his head". Shooting on the Gunsmoke set was sometimes suspended because Arness got a case of the uncontrollable giggles. [24] James Arness disdained publicity and banned reporters from the Gunsmoke set. He was said to be a ...
Actor Ben Cooper, who rose to fame with his Western roles in "Johnny Guitar" and "Gunsmoke," died Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in Memphis, Tenn. He was 86. Cooper had been suffering a long battle with ...
Hagen guest-starred on Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Bonanza, Laramie, Have Gun - Will Travel, Mannix, The Time Tunnel, and Perry Mason. He made three appearances on Mason. In 1958 he played Sgt. Burke in "The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant"; in (1965) he played murderer Jacob Leonard in "The Case of the Gambling Lady", and Samuel Carleton in "The ...
Yes! Doc is loosely based on the life of Italian doctor Pierdante Piccioni, who suffered a brain injury in a car accident on May 31, 2013. He later awoke from his coma, believing it was Oct. 25 ...