biography
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Arness, James
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originally James Aurness
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was wounded in the invasion in Anzio, Italy in 1944. After working as a screen actor in the 1940s and 1950s, he took on the role of Marshall Matt Dillon (after John Wayne turned it down), the no-nonsense, good-hearted hero of CBS's Gunsmoke, television's first and longest running Western series (1955–75). His brother was the television actor Peter Graves. |
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