James Arness | 1923-2011
Actors Arness, as Marshal Matt Dillon in foreground, and Buck Taylor as Newly O’Brien from the television series “Gunsmoke” in 1970.
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Arness holds up his claw-like hands in a publicity still from the 1951 horror film ‘The Thing From Another World.’
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Arness holds the “Man of the Year” award in broadcasting from the Hollywood Radio and Television Society in Los Angeles.
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