After being Marshal Matt Dillon on the iconic Western series Gunsmoke, James Arness starred in the underrated TV remake of ...

Show business is famously competitive -- writers trying to get a script read, actors vying for the same parts. Every once in a while, kindness shines through.

James Arness killed Bruce Dern multiple times on the TV Western Gunsmoke, though one of those occasions left Arness feeling annoyed more than anything else.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born Peter and James Aurness in Minneapolis, the brothers took different professional names and very different paths to stardom.

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall -- 6 feet, 6 inches -- on "Gunsmoke" from 1955 to 1975.

LOS ANGELES — Some actors cringe at the thought of looking at performances they gave years ago. Not James Arness. The longtime Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City watches TV reruns of "Gunsmoke" every ...

"The Wiving" and "Brides and Grooms" are two of Gunsmoke's worst episodes and marked the show's shift into an anthology ...

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 ...

Bruce Boxleitner recently reflected on his time starring in HOW THE WEST WAS WON, and how his co-star, James Arness, impacted ...