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Ken Curtis The old Bent County jail in Las Animas in southeastern Colorado, where Ken Curtis lived as a boy. Ken Curtis (July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American singer and actor best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the long-running CBS western television series Gunsmoke.Although he appeared on Gunsmoke in other roles he first appeared in his iconic role along in season 8 and episode 13, Us Haggens..His next appearance was with his mule Ruth in Prairie Wolfer, season 9 and episode 16, also featuring Noah Beery, Jr. as the episode's villain.lthough he appeared on Gunsmoke in other roles he first appeared in his iconic role along in season 8 and episode 13, Us Haggens.. His next appearance was with his mule Ruth in Prairie Wolfer, season 9 and episode 16, also featuring Noah Beery, Jr. as the episode's villain.
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Festus (Fallout: New Vegas) Several wasteland legends persist that Festus is a centuries old guardian of the Sunset Sarsaparilla treasure.
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List of Gunsmoke television episodes Clockwise from top: Ken Curtis (Festus), Arness (Matt), Amanda Blake (Kitty), and Milburn Stone (Doc) in 1968. Gunsmoke is an American western television series developed by Charles Marquis Warren and based on the radio program of the same name.
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Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) For other people named Matt Dillon, see Matt Dillon (disambiguation). Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s.
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Gunsmoke: The Ballad of Kitty Russell Characters such as Marshall Matt Dillon and Quint Asper brought the Western setting to life in more ways than one. But one of the most compelling characters in the Gunsmoke series is Kitty Russell.
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Amanda Blake, 60, Saloonkeeper On TV's 'Gunsmoke' for 19 Years Published: August 18, 1989. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 17— Amanda Blake, who played the kindhearted saloonkeeper Miss Kitty in the ''Gunsmoke'' television series for 19 years, died of oral cancer on Wednesday at Mercy General Hospital in Los Angeles. She was 60 years old.
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WHO WAS IMPOSTER KANE.? His real name is Drew Hankinson. He later portrayed Festus throughout late-2007 to late-2009 until he was repackaged as Luke Gallows, a character that he portrays to this day.
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Amanda Blake Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress Miss Kitty Russell on the television western Gunsmoke. She and her third husband Frank Gilbert ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity.
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Gunsmoke Kitty was played by Georgia Ellis on radio, and by Amanda Blake on TV. Georgia Ellis first appeared in the radio episode Billy the Kid (April 26, 1952) as Francie Richards, a former girlfriend of Matt Dillon and the widow of a criminal.
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Nick Adams (I)  (1931â1968) Nick Adams (I) (1931–1968) Nick Adams, best known to audiences as Johnny Yuma of the TV series The Rebel (1959), played leads and supporting parts in many films of the 1950s, often cast in the same troubled young man mold as his good friend, James Dean. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Twilight of Honor (1963) He died in 1968 due to an overdose of ...
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- Miss Betty Davis performance in this episode is by far one of the better acting jobs in the entire series of the show. Even if you are young and never heard of Betty Davis, when you see this episode you will talk about the woman that was the head of the family in that Gunsmoke show. Betty Davis plays Etta Stone the matriarch of a family with four sons.
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- Famous people died this weekend. With your busy lives and the such, you might have missed these. One was James Arness, “Matt Dillion” from Gunsmoke fame. The actor was 88. He portrayed Dillon for 20 years, which on TV is an eternity.
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Gunsmoke James Arness as Matt Dillon in the television version of Gunsmoke (1956) 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.
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What year did amanda blake leave gunsmoke? And is she still living? No. She died of liver failure in Sacramento, California on August 16th, 1989. She was 60 years old. Actress Amanda Blake (born Beverly Louise Neill on February 20th, 1929 in Buffalo, New York) joined the cast of TV's Gunsmoke in 1955 and left the show after 19 years in 1974. The television series was canceled the following year (September of 1975) after having run on CBS for twenty seasons and a total of 633 episodes. Blake did again appear as Kitty in Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge, a TV movie that aired on CBS in 1987.
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Ken Curtis Ken Curtis (July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American singer and actor best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the long-running CBS western television series Gunsmoke. Although he appeared on Gunsmoke in other earlier roles, he was first cast in his iconic role in season 8 episode 13, Us Haggens. His next appearance was with his mule, Ruth, in Prairie Wolfer in season 9 episode 16, which also features Noah Beery Jr., as a villain.
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- Gerald McRaney. Actor | Producer | Director. McRaney holds the distinction of being the last guest star to meet Matt Dillon in a gunfight on Gunsmoke (1955) - in the episode Hard Labor, first broadcast February 24, 1975 (he lost).
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Dennis Weaver Biography Dennis Weaver Biography. Dennis Weaver. William Dennis Weaver, born June 4, 1924 in Joplin, Missouri, was a famous American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on such series as “ Gunsmoke ” and as Officer Sam McCloud on a 1971 detective series on NBC entitled “McCloud”.
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When did Doc Adams leave the Gunsmoke show? exists and is an alternate of . The late Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 - June 12, 1980) who played in the role of Doc Galen Adams made his last appearance in the Gunsmoke series in the episode The Sharecroppers (31 March 1975) . I remember that he was absent from the series due to having heart surgery but I couldn't find which episodes in which he was absent then returned .
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Lawman (1960) And while Lawman, like the more popular and longer-running Gunsmoke, had its cast of supporting characters, Deputy Johnny McKay (played by Peter Brown) and saloon proprietor Lily Merrill (Peggie Castle), it really all came down to one man, the Lawman, Marshall Dan Troop, played by Clark Gable-lookalike John Russell.
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George Curry In May, Kid Curry rode from New Mexico to Utah, and took revenge for his brother and George Curry's deaths by killing Sheriff Tyler and his Deputy Sheriff Sam Jenkins in a gunfight. George Sutherland Curry (1864 – April 17, 1900), also known as Flat-nose Curry, was an American robber of the American Old West. He is one of the historical characters who appeared in Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. Curry was a mentor to Harvey Logan, who would adopt the surname Curry, and the two robbed banks together before both became members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Curry would be killed by a Sheriff while rustling in Grand County, Utah.
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- Photo 1 of 20. See photos of Gunsmoke TV show cast, actors James Arness, Marshall Matt Dillion, Amanda Blake, Kitty Russell, Long Branch Saloon, Ken Curtis, Festus Haggen, Milburn Stone, Doc Adams, saloon, Dodge City, Percy Crump.Previous.hoto 1 of 20. See photos of Gunsmoke TV show cast, actors James Arness, Marshall Matt Dillion, Amanda Blake, Kitty Russell, Long Branch Saloon, Ken Curtis, Festus Haggen, Milburn Stone, Doc Adams, saloon, Dodge City, Percy Crump.
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- In 1955 John Wayne introduced James on the first episode of Gunsmoke. From 1955 through 1975 he played Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke which was the longest running dramatic series ever produced.
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The Gunsmoke Journal #3: Chester vs. Festus First, a little background. Chester Goode, played by Dennis Weaver, was a member of the original cast- and, like all the other originals, was a carryover from the radio program. On the radio version his name had been Chester Wesley Proudfoot, and he did not have the distinctive stiff-legged limp –that was introduced by Weaver.
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- Gerald McRaney. McRaney holds the distinction of being the last guest star to meet Matt Dillon in a gunfight on Gunsmoke (1955) - in the episode Hard Labor, first broadcast February 24, 1975 (he lost). In fact, in the early portion of Gerald McRaney's career he almost always played the villain; but, since his first series, Simon & Simon (1981), hit it big...
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- Character Bio. Festus Haggen was Marshal Matt Dillon's only official deputy on the CBS television series Gunsmoke. He came to Dodge City in an episode titled Us Haggens to avenge the death of his twin brother, Fergus. Played by Ken Curtis, he first appeared in 1962 and was showcased full-time from 1964 until 1975.
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Biography American leading man famed as the star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness, had formerly been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Rolf and Ruth Duesler Aurness.