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Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942.
Season 9 incorporated a number of casting changes. It introduced Burt Reynolds as regular character Quint Asper. Dennis Weaver left the series after episode 28, "Bently", and his role as Chester was replaced by Ken Curtis as Festus, although Curtis also appears in early in the season as another character in episode 2.
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.It centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West.
Stone's brother, Joe, was a writer who was the author of scripts for three episodes of Gunsmoke. [5] Stone was a cousin of the character actress Madge Blake. [6] In March 1971, [7] Stone had heart bypass surgery at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. In June 1980, Stone died of a heart attack [8] in La Jolla.
Amanda Blake (born Beverly Louise Neill, February 20, 1929 [1] – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the western television series Gunsmoke.
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. [1] The series ran for 20 seasons, making it the longest-running Western in television history.
Actor Ken Osmond, best known for playing the excruciatingly pseudo-polite pal Eddie Haskell on TV’s “Leave It to Beaver,” died Monday in Los Angeles. “He was an incredibly kind and ...
The tenth season of the American Western television Gunsmoke originally aired in the United States on the CBS on September 26, 1964, and the final episode aired on June 29, 1965. [1] Season 10 of Gunsmoke was the fourth season of one hour episodes filmed in black-and-white. Seasons 1–6 were half-hour episodes, and color episodes were not ...