Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Graves and James Arness were best known for their iconic television roles of Jim Phelps and Matt Dillon on Mission ...

HOW THE WEST WAS ONE series will soon be available on free streaming platform Tubi, 46 years after the finale premiered.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born Peter and James Aurness in Minneapolis, the brothers took different professional names and very different paths to stardom.

Show business is famously competitive -- writers trying to get a script read, actors vying for the same parts. Every once in a while, kindness shines through.

This Gunsmoke episode features Marshal Matt Dillon's most brutal kill in a harrowing tale of survival and despair in the Old ...

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 ...

A son shared stories about his father serving in the Army with James Arness during World War II and another reader set a goal to watch the entire "Gunsmoke" series. After reading a story about James ...

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 ...

Actor James Arness, who starred in one of the most successful TV series of all time, “Gunsmoke,” has died at 88. The announcement on his official website said he died of natural causes. A private ...

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 ...