For 20 years, television audiences rode into Dodge City with Marshal Matt Dillon on a weekly basis, and when Gunsmoke finally ended in 1975, James Arness had quietly become one of the most familiar ...

James Arness, the 6-foot-6 actor who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88. The actor died in his sleep ...

The career of James Arness almost came to a very pointed end, just as Gunsmoke was taking off. Arness etched his name in the halls of pop culture history as Marshall Matt Dillon, the heroic lawman who ...

The star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness (formerly had been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ...

Julien’s Auctions is handling the sale of the Gunsmoke props, costumes, and memorabilia. Items come from the estate of James Arness, who played Marshall Matt Dillon on the show, which aired from 1955 ...

A son shared stories about his father serving in the Army with James Arness during World War II and another reader set a goal to watch the entire "Gunsmoke" series. After reading a story about James ...

In the ‘60s and ‘70s, Minnesota-born TV icons James Arness and Peter Graves owned the airwaves — but why didn't CBS want you to know they were siblings? Few people knew Peter Graves, left, of "Mission ...

Although Taylor Sheridan has transformed the landscape of Western TV over recent years, the iconic CBS series Gunsmoke still reigns supreme as the greatest show in the genre’s history. The show couldn ...