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Image info
Artist | CBS Television |
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Credit | eBay item photo front photo back |
License | pd |
Desc | Photo of James Arness as Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke. |
Usage | Public domain |
American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston.
Gunsmoke
Released | 10 September 1955 |
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Ended | 31 March 1975 |
About Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the United Kingdom, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke.The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and lasted for 635 episodes. At the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote: "Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp Western as romanticized by [Ned] Buntline, [Bret] Harte, and [Mark] Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend."
Other cast and crew
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Ellen Burstyn
American actress

Cicely Tyson
American actress

Jon Voight
American actor

Angie Dickinson
American actress

Nick Nolte
American actor

Kurt Russell
American actor

Adam West
American actor

Melissa Gilbert
actress and director

Katharine Ross
actor and author

Barbara Eden
American actress and singer

Sam Elliott
American actor

George Kennedy
American actor

Beau Bridges
American actor and director

John Saxon
American actor

Diane Ladd
American actress

Vera Miles
American actress

Ruta Lee
Canadian actress and dancer

Richard Dreyfuss
American actor

Lesley Ann Warren
American singer-actress

Mariette Hartley
American actress

Jan-Michael Vincent
American actor

Chuck Connors
Athlete and actor

Loretta Swit
American actress

Joyce Bulifant
American actress

Ned Beatty
American actor

John Astin
American actor

Sherry Jackson
American actress

Michael Learned
American actress

Eve Plumb
American actress, painter

Lee Majors
American actor

Sid Haig
American actor

June Lockhart
American actress from the United States

Pamelyn Ferdin
actress, voice actress

Bruce Dern
American actor

Herb Vigran
American actor

Tom Skerritt
American actor

Ricardo Montalbán
actor

William Hopper
American actor

Fionnula Flanagan
Irish actress

Dabbs Greer
American actor

Kay Lenz
American actress

Bonnie Bartlett
American actress

Sharon Farrell
American actress

Clint Howard
American actor

Susan Olsen
American actress

Russ Tamblyn
American actor

Salome Jens
American actress

Joseph Campanella
American actor

Richard Chamberlain
American actor and singer, recording artist

Kathleen Nolan
American actress; President of the SAG

Gerald McRaney
American actor

Robert Pine
American actor

Bruce Boxleitner
American actor, science fiction and suspense writer

Julie Bennett
American actress

Nina Foch
actress

Lisa Eilbacher
American actress

Yaphet Kotto
American actor

Fredd Wayne
American actor

Darren McGavin
actor

Maree Cheatham
American actress

L. Q. Jones
American actor

Nancy Olson
American actress

Ben Johnson
American film actor

Rance Howard
American actor

Katherine Cannon
American actress

Nehemiah Persoff
American actor and painter

Charlotte Stewart
actress

Mike Connors
American actor

Martin E. Brooks
American actor

Pamela Payton-Wright
American actress

Susan Batson
American actress

Barra Grant
American actress

Edgar Buchanan
actor

Vitina Marcus
American actress

Jolene Brand
American actress

Martin Kove
American actor

Harold Gould
American actor

Nellie Bellflower
American actress

Jack Albertson
American character actor

Pat Quinn
American actress

Butch Patrick
American actor

Roy Thinnes
actor

Jere Fields
American actress

Lyle Waggoner
American actor

Jimmy McNichol
actor, singer

Lois Nettleton
actress

Richard Mulligan
American actor

John Beck
American actor

Michael Parks
American actor

James Drury
former actor; oil and natural gas business

Alex Cord
American actor

Bo Hopkins
American actor

Daniel J. Travanti
actor

James Gammon
American actor

Noble Willingham
American actor

Richard Kiley
American actor
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