The main recurring cast on the Western television show included James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, Dennis Weaver, Burt Reynolds, Ken Curtis, and Buck Taylor. However, they all had varying ...

'Gunsmoke' actor James Arness had more of an interest riding horses as Matt Dillon than learning to get on a motorcycle.

James Arness, the rangy thesp best known for his 20-year run as "Gunsmoke's" Marshal Matt Dillon, died Friday of natural causes at his home in Brentwood. He was 88.

Although James Arness and Milburn Stone ultimately spent decades working on Gunsmoke together, they nearly came to blows early on in the show's run.

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 ...

James Arness, who presided over the frontier town of Dodge City as television’s most enduring western hero, the laconic, fair-minded and incorruptible Marshal Matt Dillon of the two-decade-long ...

On a weekly schedule with a TV budget, James Arness, Amanda Blake and others did amazing work, year upon year upon year. Thanks to cable, I can still smell "Gunsmoke" several times each day.

James Arness, a great Sequoia tree in the forest of TV Western heroes, has died; he was 88. Arness is immortal in TV history as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, the longest-running network drama ...

F rom 1955 until 1975, James Arness played the righteous, brave and gallant Matt Dillon, the marshal of Dodge City, on the landmark CBS western series "Gunsmoke." ...

James Arness, the strapping Western star who played Marshal Matt Dillon in TV’s long-running Gunsmoke, died Friday at age 88.