The 6-foot-7 actor towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Old West lawman Marshal Matt Dillon. He was 88. James Arness, the Minnesota city boy who became television's ...

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 ...

If you don't remember the television show "Gunsmoke," with the colorful characters Matt Dillon, Chester, Miss Kitty and Doc, well, you're young. "Gunsmoke," a weekly western series, which aired from ...