Most great Western TV actors are renowned for multiple roles, but this star only needed to play one character to become a ...

Lee Majors rode into the Barkley family as Heath on TV, who claimed his share of a name that did not want him at first. He ...

Matt Dillon and saloon owner Kitty Russell had amazing chemistry on screen in Gunsmoke, but there's a reason why that romance never went there.

"Gunsmoke," the western drama starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, has twice this year ranked among Nielsen's top 10 list of most-streamed acquired series alongside more contemporary ...

50 years after Marshal Matt Dillon’s last draw, ‘Gunsmoke’ is a streaming hit James Arness, left, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis and Milburn Stone in “Gunsmoke.” ...

CBS Photo Archive/Getty;Silver Screen Collection/Getty James Arness played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon. James Arness played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon for all 20 seasons of Gunsmoke, becoming the face of ...

Peter Graves and James Arness were best known for their iconic television roles of Jim Phelps and Matt Dillon on Mission Impossible and Gunsmoke, respectively. But likely more important to the two ...

Wayne recommended Arness to lead the TV show Gunsmoke as Matt Dillon, even introducing him in the first episode’s prologue in 1955. The Wild West US Marshall role would be his best known ...

Actor James Arness played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for many years. However, he once admitted that it took some time for him to settle into the role, seeking out an acting coach to get ...

Yet helping his pal with his career didn’t stop there. Wayne recommended Arness to lead the TV show Gunsmoke as Matt Dillon, even introducing him in the first episode’s prologue in 1955.