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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. He has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades: 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series, then in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made ...
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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]
James Robert Baker – writer (died by suicide in his Pacific Palisades home in 1997) [6] Ronald Barak (born 1943) – Olympic gymnast [7] Christophe Beck – film/TV composer [8] Mel Blanc – voice actor, past honorary mayor [2] [9] Richard Boone – actor (Have Gun - Will Travel) [10] Kobe Bryant – NBA player [11] Francis X. Bushman ...
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.
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.
Amanda Blake was born Beverly Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York, [2] the only child of Jesse and Louise (née Puckett) Neill. Her father was a banker. Blake was a telephone operator and briefly attended Pomona College before she took up acting.
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge is a 1987 American Western television film based on the 20-year (1955–1975) series Gunsmoke starring James Arness.Subsequent TV movies are Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990), Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992), Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993), and Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994), none of which are set in Dodge, nor do they share any cast members from the TV series ...