Guest Cast: Andy Clyde (as Poney Thompson), Warren Oates (as Jed Hakes) and Charles Maxwell (as Walt Moorman). Guest Cast: Ken Curtis (as Festus), Denver Pyle (as Haggen), Elizabeth MacRae (as April), Billy Hughes (as Timmy) and Howard Wright (as Dietzer). He was a cast member in the radio version of Gunsmoke performing over the entire broadcast run from April 26, 1952, to June 18, 1961. Today, a Jayhawker is a nickname for anybody born in Kansas. Guest Cast: Russ Tamblyn (as Billy Waters), Roger Torrey (as Steve Hays), Lane Bradford (as Dan O'Hare), Will J. Matt Dillon / . Guest Cast: Royal Dano (as Obie Tater), Kathy Adams (as Ella Mills), Jon Shepodd (as Mitch) and Pat Conway (as Quade). A seriously ill Nez Perce Indian chief causes hostility among the town's residents when he shelters in the Dodge House, but one man sees it as an opportunity to avenge his brother's death. Guest Cast: Karen Sharpe (as Rena Decker), John Alderson (as Ab Laster), Walter Reed (as Joe Garrett), John Mitchum (as Joe), Ken Mayer (as Hank) and George Archambeault (as Agent). Viewers also learn through dialogue within the episode that Matt describes himself as being "old enough to be her father", in reality James Arness is also only four years older than the actress playing Jenny. An outlaw masquerading as a passenger has plans to hold up a stagecoach full of riders including Matt and his prisoner. Matt intervenes when an intese feud between the Renner brothers reaches its breaking point. Do Not Sell My Information - CA Residents. A mad sniper has marked six citizens of Dodge City for summary execution, one per night, and it seems both Matt and Doc might be next. The character Bill Pence was first introduced as a ranch hand foreman in episode 21, "Helping Hand". While in Mexico, Matt has his badge, horse and prisoner stolen by Americans. Notes: The viewer learns the exact date of the series in this episode, May 8, 1875, written on a telegram sent by Matt. Festus seeks help for his prisoner Riley Sharp (Charles Aidman) at the home of Ellie (Gail Kobe) and Henry Decker (John Kellogg). Bank robbers led by Charlie Utter (Slim Pickens) chase Matt down Oregon's Rogue River to retrieve $24,000 that they robbed. A young thief, Sancho (Manuel Padilla Jr.), gets caught by Matt while the marshal is transporting a prisoner, Sam Danton (William C. Watson), to Fort Union. Guest Cast: Sebastian Cabot (as Professor Jacoby), Dean Fredericks (credited Norman Frederic as Gart), Ned Glass (as Grubby), Charles Horvath (as Left Hand), Howard Culver (as Citizen) and Dorothy Schuyler (as Kate). Young Kyle Stoner is a fast gun involved with a pair of thieves who beat up Festus. The lonely widow Phoebe Preston (Anne Jackson) finds and takes care of the wounded amnesiac, calling him Jed Frazer (Victor French), her newlywed husband. Stone (1 Episode), Jim Redigo (1 Episode), Andy (1 Episode), John (1 Episode), Bud Grant (1 Episode), Carney (1 Episode), Carl (1 Episode), Bill Lee (1 Episode), Hale Parker (1 Episode), Ivy (1 Episode), Tobe (1 Episode), Pezzy (1 Episode), Abihu Howell (1 Episode), Malachi Harper (1 Episode), Alben Peavy (1 Episode), Judge Ray Cordelius (1 Episode), Ezra Thorpe (1 Episode), Jess (1 Episode), Jake Spence (1 Episode), Eben Hakes (1 Episode), Capt. Nolan was an American radio, film and television actress with over 200 acting credits in a career that spanned seven decades. An overbearing sister is extremely obsessed in controlling her younger sibling's life. Guest Cast: Woodrow Chambliss (as Lathrop), Ted Jordan (as Burke), Hank Patterson (as Hank), Margaret Bacon (as Dressmaker), Glenn Strange (as Sam), Tom Sutton (as Pete), Bill Hart (as Cowboy #1) and Bennie Dobbins (as Cowboy #2). Guest Cast: John Dehner (as Hardy Tate), Paul Carr (as Cully Tate), Vitina Marcus (as Natacea), Bob Hastings (as Bill Craig), Jet McDonald (credited Jet MacDonald as Sal), Bill Erwin (as Rev Tucker), Jack Orrison (as shopkeeper) and John Culwell (as bystander). Festus' cousin comes to town to marry him because of a pact between their fathers and when she's assaulted, Festus seeks revenge. He was 38 years-old at the time of the visit and not the old man portrayed in the broadcast. Guest Cast: Mary LaRoche (credited Mary La Roche as Willa), Ben Johnson (as Ben Crown), Don Keefer (as Nally), Catherine McLeod (as Lizzie) and Ollie O'Toole (as Telegrapher). Raymond Bailey was an American stage, film and television actor who was best known for his role as the wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale on the 19621971 CBS sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies. The versatile actor's career spanned six decades, and not counting his radio performances, had amassed nearly 300 acting credits. An irritating townsman is suspicious of a rancher when his second wife vanishes just like his first. Matt and Chester rescue an old buffalo hunter who was abandoned and left for dead in the freezing cold temperatures on the prairie. Guest Cast: Grant Williams (as Joe Plummer), Norma Crane (as Tilda), Denver Pyle (as Mike Blocker), Russell Johnson (as Harry Weeb) and Guy Wilkerson (as Pete Wilkins). He may be best remembered as Commando Cody in the 1952 Republic Pictures serial, Radar Men from the Moon. She may be best remembered for her co-starring role as saloon owner Lily Merrill in the 19591962 ABC Western television series Lawman. He also played the lead role earlier in the season in the fifth episode, "Obie Tater" (1955). Their patriarch Moshe Gorofsky (Paul Stevens) must decide whether to tell Matt what Ruxton (Victor French) did, even while Moshe's son Gearshon (Richard Dreyfuss) is pressuring for justice. However, her fianc Tom Rickaby (Victor Holchak) wants a quick and final solution. Chico & the Man. Guest Cast: Paul Langton (as Killion), Madlyn Rhue (as Rusty), Gregg Stewart (as Tex), Clem Fuller (as Clem) and Harold Goodwin (as Clerk). director of photography Film Editing by Albrecht Joseph . A bounty hunter tells Matt that he has a wanted outlaw holed-up with his partner in a secured location and needs his help in bringing him in, but the real twist is what he's not telling him. Matt is given the unpleasant task of serving a warrant on an ex-member of Billy the Kid's gang in the small town of Tascosa, Texas but problems arise when three men living completely normal lives fit the limited description supplied to him. Guest Cast: John Dehner (as Caleb), Dorothy Green (as Julie), Lane Bradford (as Lige), Ann Loos (as Dorcas), Dabbs Greer (as Mr. Jonas), George Selk (as Moss Grimmick), Vickie Cos (as Betsy), Christopher Barrey (as George), Dennis Robertson (as Stable Boy), Ted Jordan (as Chad) and Glenn Strange (as Sam). Matt captures a young criminal named Billy after a robbery goes wrong, who must endure Matt's moralizing while waiting to be broken out of jail by his outlaw brother and hero Ed. Guest Cast: Buddy Baer (as Stobo), Woodrow Chambliss (as Shiloh), Tom Greenway (as Treavitt), Paul Birch (as Boss) and Gary Vinson (as Jim). Crazed mass murder Abraham Wakefield (Morgan Woodward), motivated by the violent death of his precious Annabel (Elaine Fulkerson), is bent on avenging his son's death after Matt tracks him down and is forced to kill him. He even portrayed the character after the TV show had already begun, carrying on the role until 1961. A pair of teenage thieves' hamper the rescue of their partner, who fell into a well, for fear that he'll give them up. After coming into money, Festus falls prey, first to his unscrupulous partner Titus (Shug Fisher), and then to Ma Fowler (Nora Marlowe) who is husband-hunting for her daughter Dora Lou (Gwynne Gilford). Lay about sharecropper Dibble Pugh (Victor French) threatened with eviction is given money by his daughter Av Marie Pugh (Susanne Benton) to buy a plow mule. Keller), Eddie Little Sky (as Warrior), Edward G. Robinson Jr. (credited Edward Robinson, Jr. as Brown), Dennis Cross (as Jim) and Kim Winona (credited Connie Buck as Daughter). Notes: Peggie Castle who portrays Nita Tucker was an American film and television actress. A preacher disgusted by all the violence surrounding him has lost faith and is tormented by a bully, who despises his timid nature. On the way to Mexicao, he rescues an orphaned girl Marcy McCloud (Dawn Lyn), and saloon gal Stella Silks (Shani Wallis). A failed farmer comes to Dodge in search of a meaningful life but finds himself on the wrong side of an avenging brother. Matt investigates an Indian raid that wiped out a family. Gunsmoke Pay to watch TV-PG How the Big Valley Cast Members Died How Each Beverly Hillbillies Cast Member Died Amanda Blake Accepted Her Fate, but Told No One Death Was Near James Arness Says. A vile domineering man holds a lie over his young ward's head and they both come to odds concerning the ownership of an attractive Indian girl. She had a brief acting career before gaining wide-spread recognition as a fine art photographer. He's seen wearing a black hat in nine of the first season's Boot Hill introductions. An old ailing military General asks his best friend to locate his long-lost son, and what he finds is a likeable but illiterate and uncouth simpleton. Kitty. Members of the Texas A&M football team meet Arness as they visit the set, October 9, 1964. Kioga, a young and wounded Pawnee Indian, comes to Dodge City to hunt down the fur trader who killed his father and attacked his sister. Matt gets caught in the middle of an Ozark-mountain family feud when the two remaining survivors come to Dodge City. Guest Cast: John Carradine (as Ephraim Hunt), Lola Albright (as Lucy Hunt), James Drury (as Booth Rider) and Virginia Chapman (credited Virginia Arness as Gypsy) (credit only). Notes: Florenz Ames started his profession in vaudeville as a song and dance man performing with his wife Alice "Adelaide" Winthrop, as "Ames and Winthrop." Fearing that his son Adam (Kevin Burchett) was the one who was killed, Lemuel (John Anderson) and his remaining children, Tom (Gary Wood) and Elsie (Mary Rings) take Festus hostage until they can find Adam's remains. Matt comes up with a risky plan to stop the killing spree of a psychopathic murderer, who only provokes gunfights with individuals he knows have no chance in defending themselves against him. A gang of outlaws abduct Kitty and her fellow stagecoach passengers. Guest Cast: Mercedes McCambridge (as Mrs Mather), Royal Dano (as Henry Mather), Link Wyler (as Lamond Mather), Charles Kuenstle (as Valjean Mather), Dee Carroll (as Mrs. Grayson), Jerry Brown (as Abel Grayson), Peggy Rea (as Mrs. Roniger), Maria Mantley (as Maria), Jon Jason Mantley (as Jon) and Terri Lynn Wood (as Elsie). He often played the town lawman or local bad guy in many popular westerns including a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in the 19571959 western Television series, Man Without a Gun. Matt and the runaways acquire two more passengers, Pierre Audubon and Paulette Duvalier, and must make it passed the rapids, and foil an ambush set up at "The Narrows" by Charlie Utter's gang, further on down Oregon's Rogue River, in order to reach the town of Piety. Quint saves an Army officer's daughter from white renegades who're running rampant near Dodge. Two bushwhackers, Charlie Clavin (George Lindsey) and Hank McCall (Charles Kuenstle), shoot and rob a man, causing him to lose his memory. Hypnotist Dr. Herman Schultz (Benny Rubin) bamboozles Dodge residents by using his skill to steal money that is destined for the freight office. A ruthless gang conspire to steal a prized Hereford breeding bull worth its weight in gold from a shrewd old Texas cattleman and his grandson. Arness and Stone had a difference in personality. Guest Cast: Joseph Sargent (as Shomer), Susan Morrow (as Ann) and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (credited Gwinn Williams as Groat). And yet, memories of one who rode a yellow horse still haunts Mrs. Shepherd's mind. Festus and Buck Henry's gal, Joanie Brodie (Janet Baldwin) also get involved in the hunt. Matt devises a plan to capture a charismatic outlaw who has a reputation for only robbing the rich. Alcoholic Judge Warfield (David Wayne) is forced by Matt to hold an inquest into the death of a female saloon-keeper that resulted in the lynching of innocent drifter, Jake Fielder (Ken Swofford). A charming and debonair gambler comes to Dodge and puts himself smack in the middle of a torrid relationship. Here, with his very familiar face played Turnkey, his first of eight appearances. Gunsmoke (TV Series 1955-1975) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Has-been pool player Moses Darby (Jack Albertson) looks for a way to regain others' respect. Blade Runner Jumanji Planet of the Apes Here's a cherished country singer who memorably appeared on Gunsmoke. Notes: First of two appearances for John Carradine whose role was the elder rancher Ephraim Hunt. Guest Cast: Florenz Ames (as John Peavy), Frank de Kova (as Mulligan Rives), Anne O'Neal (as Sabina Peavy) and Susan Morrow (as Melanie). Festus comes back from a desert shootout with no memory of what exactly took place. Sebastian Cabot, who portrayed Bailey, may be best remembered as the manservant, Mister (Giles) French in the 1966-1971 [CBS] television sitcom Family Affair. Notes: The credits misidentify Edward Binns' character Bill Stapp as Bill Strapp. Sam the bartender (Glenn Strange) takes an interest in trying to reform a juvenile delinquent on probation, Eric Tabray (Michael Burns). Western A father's dying request is that Matt go to retrieve his daughter. Guest Cast: George Macready (as Charlie Drain), Bing Russell (as Ed Shelby), Charles H. Gray (credited Charles Gray as Bob Gringle), O.Z. How else to explain that a core cast could work together for two decades? Matt is duty-bound to protect a despised gunman from being hanged by a group of normally law-abiding ranchers for a crime he didn't commit. His mastery of the English dialect and unique range earn him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices". Her sons end up kidnapping Miss Kitty in the hopes that Dillon will come chasing after her. Notes: Herbert Lytton portrayed Jake Crowell, his first of seven appearances. An ex-convict returns home to try to find the money he buried eight years ago but he's being hounded by his former partner and a Sheriff with knowledge of the crime. He had a successful career on Broadway as a stage actor and was a relative newcomer to television when he passed away at the age of 75 on February 11, 1958. Guest Cast: Robert Foulk (as Edward Hinton), Amzie Strickland (as Lennie Hinton), Peter Votrian (as Timmy Wyatt), Anne Warren (as White Fawn), Lance Warren (as Maggie Wyatt), Jeanne Bates (as Mrs. Wyatt) and Lou Vernon (as Cal Ross). Louie is a witness to murder but believes it's only a dream, until he recognizes the culprit in the Long Branch and mindlessly informs him on what he saw. Town drunk Malachi Harper poses as marshal just to impress his brother. Guest Cast: Nellie Burt (as Panacea), Dan Tobin (as Foote), Charles Watts (as Little), Charlie Briggs (as Driver), John Clarke (as Young Man), Jan Brooks (as Ethel), George Selk (as Moss Grimmick), James Nusser (as Louie Pheeters), Carl Prickett (as Agent), Charles Seel (credited Charles Seal as One), Robert Nash (as Two), John Lawrence (as Other), Lindsay Workman (as Agent) and Ollie O'Toole (as Telegrapher).
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