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James Arness is an American actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on the TV show Gunsmoke for 20 years.
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James Arness, born in Minneapolis in 1923, is an American actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on the TV show Gunsmoke for 20 years. After working as a screen actor in the 1940s and 1950s, he took star-making role of his life. CBS's Gunsmoke was the first and longest running Western series on American television.
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Actor, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was wounded in the invasion in Anzio, Italy in 1944. After working as a screen actor in the 1940s and 1950s, he took on the role of Marshall Matt Dillon (after John Wayne turned it down), the no-nonsense, good-hearted hero of CBS's Gunsmoke, television's first and longest running Western series (1955??75). His brother was the television actor Peter Graves.
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