James Arness

Social : None | Joined group 1943 (U.S. Army) | Work : None | Prize 1944 (Purple Heart) | Social : None | Left group 1945 (U.S. Army) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1948 (Three kids, first marriage) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1951 (Film notability, The Thing) | Work : None | Begin Major Project 1955 (Debut of Gunsmoke) | Work : None | End Major Project 1975 (Final episode of Gunsmoke) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1978 (Janet Surtees) | : None | Death, Cause unspecified 3 June 2011 (Age 88) | Traits : Body | Size (6' 6") | Family : Childhood | Sibling circumstances (Brother Peter Graves) | Family : Relationship | Marriage more than 15 Yrs (First marriage 15 years) | Family : Relationship | Mate - Age difference more than 15 yrs (Second wife 23 years younger) | Family : Parenting | Kids -Traumatic event (Daughter drug OD) | Lifestyle : Work | Same Job more than 10 yrs (Gunsmoke ran 20 years) | Lifestyle : Financial | Invest/ Property | Lifestyle : Financial | Wealthy | Lifestyle : Home | Left home early less than 18 (Left home at 17) | Personal : Death | Long life more than 80 yrs | Vocation : Entertainment | Actor/ Actress | Vocation : Entertainment | Radio/ D.J./ Announcer | Vocation : Entertainment | TV series/ Soap star (Gunsmoke) | Vocation : Military | Honors (Purple Heart) | Vocation : Military | Military service (WW II 2 years) | Vocation : Military | Wounded (1944) | Vocation : Travel | Adventurer (Bummed around in his 20's) | Vocation : Travel | Pilot/ private | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession | Notable : Book Collection | American Book