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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 ...
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.
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
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]
Died of heart failure. [citation needed] James Arness, 88, American actor . Died of natural causes. [24] Harry Bernstein, 101, British-born American author. [25] Wally Boag, 90, American performer (Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue). [26] Marion Fuller Brown, 94, American politician and environmental activist. [27]
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.
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. Graves's ancestry was Norwegian, German, and English.
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.