Thankfully, this close call didn’t hinder Arness’s career. He starred in Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975, reprising his role in a handful of TV movies in the 1980s and 1990s. He died of natural causes in ...

One of television's best-kept secrets (that nobody went out of their way to keep secret) is the fact that Peter Graves and James Arness, two of the most iconic leading men of their era, were real-life ...

Peter Graves was not just an actor with a career spanning six decades, but also a devoted and loyal family man. The actor helmed the Mission: Impossible spy team well before Tom Cruise, spoofed ...

James Arness Biography 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 ...