RIP: Marshal Matt Dillon

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/celebrities/123110698.html

James Arness, the 6-foot-6 actor who towered over the television landscape for two decades as righteous Dodge City lawman Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88.

 

Marshal Dillon rides off into the sunset. RIP.

 

One of my fav shows growing up RIP

"Comin' Mr. Dillon"

 

"Matt Dillon, United States Marshal -- the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful . . . and a little lonely."

The Gunsmoke series is the No. 1 reason I've kept my XM radio.

RIP

 

My bedtime was right in the middle of the show. In a pre-VCR world there were some seriously epic battles to stay up. I think my parents hated me.

 

Another real American man fades away. Not many left.

 

There's Eastwood and who else?

 

He was also "The Thing" back in an early 1950s movie.

RIP.

 

RIP Marshal Dillon

James Arness was a hell of an actor and an American hero, receiving the purple heart at Anzio.

Now he and his brother are fighting bad guys in the great beyond.

 

He was recommended for the Matt Dillon job by the first actor it was offered to – John Wayne, or so the story goes.

 

I didn't realize he was still alive. RIP

 

Peter Graves' big brother.

Although Gunsmoke was on the air while I was growing up, I don't think I've ever seen an episode. We weren't big Western fans.