Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Graves and James Arness were best known for their iconic television roles of Jim Phelps and Matt Dillon on Mission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the battlefields of Anzio to the backlot streets of Dodge, Arness carried the same sense of duty that made Matt Dillon ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The John Wayne of TV Westerns has died. James Arness, the immortal “Matt Dillion” of Gunsmoke fame and the towering creature in the original “The Thing” has always been among my favorites. He asked ...

Actor James Arness, who starred in one of the most successful TV series of all time, “Gunsmoke,” has died at 88. The announcement on his official website said he died of natural causes. A private ...

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 ...

Of all the great, classic Western television shows out there, it's hard to pick any one of them and label it "the best." So many of them have their merits, after all. Have Gun — Will Travel featured ...

James Arness' life changed in 1952 after a small performance in a little Hollywood theater. "I was in a play at The Player's Ring Theater," he recalled. "It was kind of theater in the round where the ...