Gunsmoke actor James Arness was a master of the Western genre, but he didn’t care for HBO’s Deadwood. His contributions to the genre came long before the premium cable channel released the popular ...

The star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness (formerly had been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ...

Movie star John Wayne and television actor James Arness were Western icons, but their images grew in vastly different directions. Some viewed Wayne as an American hero, while others criticized him for ...

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 ...