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 ...

While Clint Eastwood would go on to become a true legend of the Wild West cinema, his first Western movie was a forgotten flop that he appeared in alongside Gunsmoke’s James Arness. Before gaining ...

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 ...

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 ...