Gunsmoke
No overview available.
Director
Richard Whorf
Age 52 (died at 60)
Writer
John Meston
Age 44 (died at 64)
Producer
Philip Leacock
Age 40 (died at 72)
Matt resigns as Marshall after Tom Samples accuses Matt of killing an innocent man;however, Doc and Matt's old friend Wild Bill Hickok come up with a plan that might clear Matt of this erroneous charge of murder.
Matt doubts the veracity of Long Branch hostess Holly Fanshaw's claim that she saw trail drover Fly Hoyt murder young Dave Thorp. His suspicions increase further when Hoyt voluntarily returns to Dodge in order to clear his name.
Matt believes white smugglers supplied the guns that a band of Pawnee used to attack local ranchers.
Two murders result when an unscrupulous Eastern businessman named Ivy hires a psychotic killer to help him establish undisputed control of Dodge City's freight shipment business.
A rich landowner seizes the chance to get a little more acreage when he discovers that a homesteader has failed to file the paperwork to make his quarter section his own.
Matt and Chester, out of water while riding back to Dodge, come upon a man with two fine horses who is not very trusting. When they meet him later in Dodge, he is much different: friendly and spending money freely.
A stagecoach on which Matt and Chester are riding is robbed and another passenger is murdered. Matt utilizes a ruse to incriminate the thieves when a "cowboy" appears and offers to show him where one of the thieves may be buried.
Matt refuses to arrest his friend Ben Tiple without more evidence, when the man he has been feuding with is found shot in the back.
When a stranger leading some immigrants planning on settling outside of Dodge wants Matt to give him a badge to avert trouble, Matt gets suspicious and rides out to their camp to see what is really up.
After mild-mannered Hank Blenis is "lynched" by the two men who stole his horse, self-righteous Charlie Drain decides to take the law into his own hands and is led tragically astray by the culprits.
Two gamblers find Matt incorruptible and attempt to intimidate him by hiring gunman Toque Morlan. The two are ironically unaware that Morlan was Matt's close friend until a long-ago attack by a mob left Morlan scarred and harboring a bitter grudge against lawmen.
White men pretending to be Indians attack greenhorn Harry Pope at night, and he kills one of them. Now the dead man's friends want revenge.
When Doc arrives too late to save his patient, her husband, a good friend of Matt's, blames Doc for her death.
Financially desperate Jack Fitch robs a stagecoach and abducts passenger Laura Church, unaware that she is "engaged" to an unscrupulous businessman who threatened to ruin her father if he did not agree to the marriage.
Claustrophobic plainsman Poney Thompson is arrested for murdering a man who maliciously shot his dog, but an ironic fate awaits him after he breaks free from Chester's custody.
Matt's attempt to find a man who shot at him from ambush leads him and Chester into the middle of a murderous feud between two bitter and isolated mountain families.
Over the objections of his sometime partner Rod Allison, treacherous Jim Box murders aging rancher Jesse Wheat, then attempts to steal cattle from Wheat's young widow.
Matt goes along with a hoax when Chester's aging Uncle Wesley arrives for a visit. Wesley thinks Chester is the marshal and Dillion is his assistant.
A man's house is burned and his livestock killed, but he refuses to identify the perpetrators to the marshal.
An old friend of Doc's, a nurse, is visiting and he hopes she will stay around Dodge. In the meantime Matt is worried that an ex-con is gunning for him even though he thought he was innocent five years ago.
Trail boss Dolph Quince sends for his friend Matt to help escort his cattle herd into Dodge because he is having trouble with Jayhawkers (Kansas renegades), and he hopes to ease the animosity his men have towards all Kansans.
An old friend of the family comes to Dodge looking for Kitty, but when he finds out she's a saloon owner, he's dismayed. Intent on defending her honor wherever she is insulted, he nearly gets himself killed. Kitty finally tells him that she has no honor, and he keeps making a fool out of himself thinking otherwise. It sends him away and saves his life at the same time.
Young Billy flees Dodge in fear after being suspected of shooting dead an older saloon girl whose sexual advances he had been resisting.
Doc takes hard the death of a homesteader under his care; then a flashy new medicine man comes to town and takes away many of his patients.
Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
A coward gambler, who's too cheap to hire a gunman, wants Matt dead for a beating he got from him years ago, so he starts some talk around Dodge about the big reputation any person could gain, if they simply killed Matt.
When Onie Becker is shot down on the streets of Dodge after quarreling with Al Clovis in a poker game, everyone thinks Al Clovis committed the shooting. The plot thickens after Matt and Chester pursue Clovis on a train headed out of Dodge.
Men start killing each other over saloon girl Dolly Varden, who seems to bring gamblers luck just by standing next to them when they're playing cards.
After years of captivity, a white woman and her half-Indian daughter are set free by the Indians, but they are shunned in Dodge.
A gunfight in the Long Branch forces Matt to arrest a drunk. Letting him go since it was a fair fight, he suspects him of selling guns to the Indians, and goes after him even though he may run into those Indians.
Matt and Dodge City's businessmen employ an unusual tactic to save ambush victim Lee Prentice from being taken to corrupt Baker City to face certain hanging on a trumped-up murder charge.
Matt becomes suspicious when Jerry Cass's plans to marry saloon hostess Bella Grant are complicated by Bella's sudden insistence that Jerry leave his recently-inherited ranch for six months.
Marshal Dillon has to stop a ruthless, cold-blooded, greedy, buffalo hunter who is in the habit of brutally killing his hired help to avoid paying them their wages.
Matt tries to help Andy Hill, a young gunman who is apparently trying very hard to go straight, by getting him a job riding shotgun on the stagecoach.
Gunman Kin Creed arrives in Dodge determined to enhance his reputation by outdrawing Matt in a gunfight. He goes to great lengths to force Matt into a confrontation and is able to wound him, but it proves to be a pyrrhic victory.
Print Asper is suspected of attempted murder when he forces a crooked lawyer, at gunpoint, to return the ranch he stole from him, and the lawyer still ends up getting shot later by someone.
Dodge City's businessmen learn a hard lesson when they reject Matt's advice and hire a meek constable to handle a gang of rowdy but free-spending trail cowboys.
Seriously injured Matt faces a moral dilemma when Blue Horse saves his life and prevents the escape of a prisoner. The Marshal knows that Blue Horse is being sought by the Cavalry as a fugitive from a reservation, and he is well aware that he is duty-bound to assist their search in any way possible.
Matt seeks the help of wise Chief Long Robe to track down gunrunners who are supplying renegade Cheyenne braves with rifles used to murder prairie-dwelling families. Long Robe provides Matt with the needed information, but warns him that the death of even a single brave could lead to a violent uprising.
James Arness
Marshal Matt Dillon
Age 35 (died at 88)
Amanda Blake
Kitty
Age 29 (died at 60)
Dennis Weaver
Chester
Age 34 (died at 81)
Milburn Stone
Doc
Age 54 (died at 75)
John George
Townsman (uncredited)
Age 60 (died at 70)
Dabbs Greer
Uncle Wesley
Age 41 (died at 90)
Joseph Kearns
Dobie
Age 51 (died at 55)
J. Pat O'Malley
Trimble
Age 54 (died at 80)
Charles Maxwell
Kerrick
Age 44 (died at 79)
Chuck Hayward
Studer
Age 38 (died at 78)
Bartlett Robinson
Lee Sprague
Age 45 (died at 73)
Tom Greenway
Joe Hines
Age 49 (died at 75)
Michael Pate
Wild Hog
Age 38 (died at 88)
Barney Phillips
Ord Spicer
Age 44 (died at 68)
Howard Culver
Howard
Age 40 (died at 66)
Dick Rich
Cowboy
Age 49 (died at 58)
Harold J. Stone
Judge Rambeau
Age 45 (died at 92)
Monte Hale
Sgt.
Age 39 (died at 89)
O.Z. Whitehead
Hank Blenis
Age 47 (died at 87)
Donald Randolph
Reeves
Age 52 (died at 87)
Darryl Hickman
Andy Hill
Age 27 (died at 92)
Bert Freed
Al Clovis
Age 38 (died at 74)
Carl Benton Reid
Gideon Seek
Age 65 (died at 79)
Ron Randell
Portis
Age 39 (died at 86)
Robert J. Wilke
Hickock
Age 44 (died at 74)
Martin Landau
Thorp
Age 30 (died at 89)
Jacqueline Scott
Abbie
Age 26 (died at 88)
Warren Oates
Jed Hakes
Age 30 (died at 53)
Clifton James
Teek
Age 38 (died at 96)
Allen Case
Billy Daunt
Age 23 (died at 51)
Whitney Blake
Dolly Varden
Age 32 (died at 76)
Fiona Hale
Mrs. Crumley
Age 32 (died at 88)
Tom Holland
Alvin
Age 15 (now 82)
Wesley Lau
Rod Allison
Age 37 (died at 63)
Robert Ivers
Johnny Asper
Age 23 (died at 68)
Onslow Stevens
Ben Goddard
Age 56 (died at 74)
Walter Brooke
Capt. Nichols
Age 43 (died at 71)
Al Ruscio
Haley
Age 34 (died at 89)
Frank Maxwell
Stage Driver
Age 41 (died at 87)
Ted Knight
Jay Rabb
Age 34 (died at 62)
Peter Breck
Fly Hoyt
Age 29 (died at 82)
Nita Talbot
Sidna
Age 28 (now 95)
Alfred Ryder
Hank Voyles
Age 42 (died at 79)
George Macready
Charlie Drain
Age 59 (died at 73)
Joe Flynn
Onie Becker
Age 33 (died at 49)
Norma Crane
Tilda
Age 29 (died at 44)
Jack Elam
Dolph Quince
Age 37 (died at 82)
John Mitchum
Joe
Age 39 (died at 82)
Sandy Kenyon
Green
Age 36 (died at 87)
William Wellman Jr.
Roy
Age 21 (now 89)
Jon Lormer
Jesse Wheat
Age 52 (died at 79)
Linda Watkins
Kate
Age 50 (died at 68)
Garry Walberg
Tobe
Age 37 (died at 90)
Sheldon Allman
Bill
Age 34 (died at 77)
Hope Summers
Ellen Cade
Age 62 (died at 83)
Gene Nelson
Hob Cannon
Age 38 (died at 76)
Mark Miller
Frank Paris
Age 33 (died at 97)
Lew Gallo
Joe Spangler
Age 30 (died at 71)
Richard Rust
Weeb
Age 20 (died at 56)
Philip Abbott
Ben Corder
Age 35 (died at 74)
Dennis Patrick
Trumbell
Age 40 (died at 84)
Andy Clyde
Poney Thompson
Age 66 (died at 75)
Joan Taylor
Anna Wheat
House Peters Jr.
Nat Swan
Age 42 (died at 92)
Frank De Kova
Tobeel
Age 48 (died at 71)
Charles Aidman
Verd
Age 33 (died at 68)
Jack Lambert
Kin Creed
Age 38 (died at 81)
Roy Barcroft
Luke
Age 56 (died at 67)
Hank Patterson
Jake
Age 69 (died at 86)
Peggy Stewart
Mrs. Philips
Age 35 (died at 95)
Read Morgan
Joe Kell
Age 27 (died at 91)
Edward Faulkner
Age 26 (now 94)
Wendell Holmes
Betchel
Age 44 (died at 47)
Elisha Cook Jr.
Huggins
Age 54 (died at 91)
Chuck Roberson
Sgt. Keller
Age 39 (died at 69)
William Phipps
Lou
Age 36 (died at 96)
Ed Nelson
Lee Prentice
Age 29 (died at 85)
Walter Burke
Bystander
Age 50 (died at 75)
Lane Bradford
Jay
Age 36 (died at 50)
Patricia Huston
Woman
Age 29 (died at 66)
Jack Grinnage
Andy Wirth
Age 27 (now 95)
Paul Langton
Major Evans
Age 45 (died at 66)
Robert Rockwell
Mr. Philips
Grant Williams
Joe Plummer
Age 27 (died at 53)
Addison Powell
Tal
Age 37 (died at 89)
Raymond Guth
Age 34 (died at 97)
Tom Brown
Major
Age 43 (died at 75)
Allan Lurie
Singer
Victor Lundin
Hank
Age 28 (died at 83)
Guy Wilkerson
Pete Wilkins
Age 58 (died at 71)
Ralph Moody
Long Robe
Age 71 (died at 84)
Phil Harvey
Henry
Age 37 (now 105)
William Bryant
Bruce Gordon
Tom Samples
Age 42 (died at 94)
Ken Lynch
Jim Cavanaugh
Age 48 (died at 79)
Sam Edwards
Age 43 (died at 89)
Harry Townes
Ivy
Age 43 (died at 86)
Robert Gist
Cam Speegle
Age 40 (died at 80)
Clegg Hoyt
Bob Adams
Age 47 (died at 56)
Mary Carver
Sarah
Walter Barnes
Burke
Age 40 (died at 79)
John Anderson
Yermo
Age 35 (died at 69)
Charles Bronson
Ben Tiple
Age 36 (died at 81)
Murray Hamilton
Calhoun
Age 35 (died at 63)
Ross Martin
Keppert
Age 38 (died at 61)
Bing Russell
Ed Shelby
Charles Gray
Bob Gringle
Pat Conway
Toque Morlan
Age 27 (died at 50)
James Westerfield
Harry Duggan
Age 45 (died at 58)
Chris Alcaide
Ned Curry
Age 34 (died at 80)
Robert F. Simon
Shell Tucker
Age 49 (died at 83)
William Schallert
Alben Peavy
Age 36 (died at 93)
Charles Cooper
Jim Box
Age 32 (died at 87)
Kevin Hagen
Coney
Age 30 (died at 77)
Barry McGuire
Billy
Ben Wright
Drummer
Age 43 (died at 74)
Russell Johnson
Harry Webb
Age 33 (died at 89)
Denver Pyle
Mike Blocker
Age 38 (died at 77)
Barry Atwater
Ed Eby
Age 40 (died at 60)
Roy Engel
Jed Garvey
Age 44 (died at 67)
Robert Karnes
Jep Hunter
Age 41 (died at 62)
Mort Mills
Jake Harbin
Age 39 (died at 74)
James Drury
Jerry Cass
Age 24 (died at 85)
Joseph Sargent
Drunk
John Larch
Rance
Age 43 (died at 91)
Strother Martin
Dillard
Age 39 (died at 61)
Eddie Little Sky
Warrior
Age 32 (died at 71)
Dennis Cross
Jim
Age 33 (died at 66)
Rudy Doucette
Barfly (uncredited)
Age 35 (died at 98)
Steve Raines
1st Cowboy
Herschel Graham
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Age 54 (died at 60)
Lou Krugman
Tom Mercer
Age 44 (died at 78)
Roy Damron
Age 37 (died at 98)
Cactus Mack
Age 59 (died at 62)
George Ford
Diner Patron (uncredited)
Age 53 (died at 78)
Ted Post
Age 40 (died at 95)
Andrew V. McLaglen
Age 38 (died at 94)
Jesse Hibbs
Arthur Hiller
Age 34 (died at 92)
Norman Macdonnell
John Mantley
Age 38 (died at 82)
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