Although James Arness and Milburn Stone ultimately spent decades working on Gunsmoke together, they nearly came to blows early on in the show's run.

He also recurred on the Clint Eastwood series ‘Rawhide’ and was finicky as Morris the Cat on TV commercials in the 1970s.

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The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film ...