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, who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in the long-running western "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88. The actor died in his ...

Before Arness landed the iconic Gunsmoke role, he initially wanted to achieve a successful career in Hollywood making movies. However, his height of 6’7″ made it difficult to earn parts. No leading ...

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 ...

James Arness had every right to be proud of "Gunsmoke." The long-lived western boasts one of the lengthiest runs on American television at twenty seasons and was once even the primetime series with ...

According to a 1962 interview with Australia’s TV Times, Gunsmoke star Arness talked about the state of the television industry. Many folks predicted that television had the possibility of killing the ...

He may have been known to the masses as Marshal Matt Dillon from “Gunsmoke”, but to horror fans he’ll always be “The Thing from Another World”. Sadly, the world lost another legend today as James ...

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 ...

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.