RIP James Arness.....Matt Dillon

[taabru45]

Lots of us remember Gunmoke....with Chester..Doc...and Kitty.....I guess that was our soap opera at the time...Steffan
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[capnjuan]

Lots of us remember Gunsmoke....

Thanks Steffan; lots of us can't forget Gunsmoke ...

RIP big Jim; you got every bad guy you went after ... and you got the girl too.

 

[beinhard]

I remember it well. The series and the actors were hugely popular here in Norway.
Our local watering hole was named after Festus.

RIP James.

beinhard

 

[silverfox103]

Gunsmoke was a great show from the glory years of TV. Oh for those days of yesteryear.

I'm trying to remember what night it was on. I know it was the weekend. I'm going to say it was on Friday night and then moved to Saturday. I don't believe it went up against Bonanza which was Saturday then Sunday. I know some of you guys must know this.

Tom C.

 

[JimbowF212]

He was such a Class Act; my sister got to meet him and got him to special autograph a picture for my dad just a little while before dad passed and now Mr. Arness is gone also. R. I. P. Sir.
BTW, I always wanted to be 6' 6 and it is just because of Mr Arness He was Sooooooooooo Cooooooooool!
Do any of You remember seeing Him as The Thing.
BTW he was Gunsmoke. Silverfox103 it was on Mondays @ 8 PM on CBS when I was a kid and I watched it every Monday Night.

 

[silverfox103]

Silverfox103 it was on Mondays @ 8 PM on CBS when I was a kid and I watched it every Monday Night.

I'll take your word for it Jim, mine was an educated guess at best.

Tom C.

 

[silverfox103]

Jim

I'm going to have to back peddle. I "Googled" Gunsmoke. It seemed to agree with what I originally said, Saturday nights at 10 PM. That is about how I remember. I remember any shows with guns etc. had to be on late, rather than the family hour. It did say that it moved to another night, it could have been Monday then, as you said.

Tom C.

 

[CA-35]

And let's not forget his younger brother: Peter Graves.

 

[silverfox103]

The original Mission Impossible, was on TV for about 5 years starting around 66 or 67. Peter Graves was the star, Mr. Phelps. Probably my all time favorite show.

Tom C.

 

[mad dog]

Peter Graves was his younger brother??

Iconic as Gunsmoke was and is, it was James Arness as the thing that I'll never forget. One of the coolest and scariest SF movies ever.
MD

 

[silverfox103]

Peter Graves was his younger brother??

Yup they were brothers.

Tom C.

 

[TonyT]

Joey, have you ever been in a in a Turkish prison ?

 

[Thunderface]

James and Peter Aurness, from Minneapolis. Peter took Graves, a maternal family name as his stage name and James dropped the "u" for his stage name ... and had to die his natural blond hair darker to become Matt Dillon.

 

[Scratch]

James Arness, John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Gene Autrey, Roy & Dale Rogers, Richard Boone, Slim Pickens, Chuck Conners, Gary Cooper, Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Charles Bronson, Clayton Moore. Childhood heroes all gone. Dang it all anyway...

 

[silverfox103]

James Arness, John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Gene Autrey, Roy & Dale Rogers, Richard Boone, Slim Pickens, Chuck Conners, Gary Cooper, Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Charles Bronson, Clayton Moore. Childhood heroes all gone. Dang it all anyway...

Don't forget Gabby Hayes. They weren't big screen stars, but they were western / cowboys stars, the boys on Bonanza, all gone. You would have to think real hard who is left, Clint Eastwood and to a lesser degree Robert Wagner. Both those guys are looking at 80 in the rear view mirror. I miss em, partner.

Tom C.

 

[killdeer43]

Hopalong Cassidy, Lash LaRue, Johnny Mack Brown.....

The list is huge, and could go on,
Joe

 

[Scratch]

And my hero, Guss McCall (Robert Duvall) still hanging in there.

The Last Cowboy Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4

Dang it all anyway... :wink:

 

[TonyT]

and Maureen O'Hara

 

[CA-35]

Are we veering? I smell a veer. I know a veer when I see one. Dead screen heroes?
Steve McQueen, Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare, best double agent war movie ever made), Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Madeline Kahn, John Wayne. My all time favorite and most under rated actor of all time........John Cazale; starred in only 5 movies and they were all phenomenal. The Godfather 1 and 2, The Deer Hunter, The Conversation, and Dog Day Afternoon. All classics IMHO. They were all great actors and may they RIP.

 

[capnjuan]

... Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare, best double agent war movie ever made)

Great flick; coolest bus on the face of the earth!