List of Gunsmoke cast members
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This list contains notable cast members of the Gunsmoke radio and TV series, and TV movies.[1] The listing includes regular cast members, guest stars, and recurring cast members.
Radio cast
Regulars
- William Conrad as Matt Dillon
- Parley Baer as Chester Wesley Proudfoot
- Howard McNear as Doc Adams
- Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell[2]
Recurring
While the radio series had relatively few recurring supporting characters, and those roles were often shared, the following actors played recurring roles with comparative consistency, in addition to a variety of one-time roles
- Harry Bartell played Mr. Hightower
Guest stars
Many actors appeared regularly on Gunsmoke, in the majority of episodes, but in a variety of one-shot roles; others were only heard once or twice
TV cast
Main cast
Character | Actress / Actor | Seasons | |||||||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | ||
Matt Dillon | James Arness | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Kitty Russell | Amanda Blake | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Doc Galen Adams | Milburn Stone | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Chester Goode | Dennis Weaver | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Sam Noonan | Glenn Strange | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Quint Asper | Burt Reynolds | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Festus Haggen | Ken Curtis | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Thaddeus Greenwood | Roger Ewing | Main | |||||||||||||||||||
Newly O'Brien | Buck Taylor | Main |
Recurring characters
Guest stars
- John Abbott
- Stanley Adams
- Claude Akins
- Marc Alaimo
- Jack Albertson
- Mabel Albertson
- Mario Alcalde
- Norman Alden
- Fred Aldrich
- James Anderson
- John Anderson
- Richard Anderson
- Keith Andes
- Edward Andrews
- Michael Ansara
- Lou Antonio
- R. G. Armstrong
- Todd Armstrong
- Jean Arthur
- Ed Asner
- John Astin
- Malcolm Atterbury
- Barry Atwater
- Lew Ayres
- Jim Backus
- Raymond Bailey
- Joe Don Baker
- Ed Bakey
- Rayford Barnes
- Baynes Barron
- Norman Bartold
- Harry Basch
- Richard Basehart
- Ned Beatty
- Jim Beaver
- John Beck
- Noah Beery Jr.
- Ed Begley
- Ralph Bellamy
- Alma Beltran
- Susanne Benton
- Warren Berlinger
- James Best
- Ramon Bieri
- Theodore Bikel
- Billie Bird
- Dan Blocker
- Lloyd Bochner
- Sorrell Booke
- Nesdon Booth
- Bruce Boxleitner
- William Boyett
- Ray Boyle
- Stewart Bradley
- Scott Brady
- Eric Braeden
- Chet Brandenburg
- Hank Brandt
- Peter Breck
- David Brian
- Beau Bridges
- Morgan Brittany
- Charles Bronson
- Joe Brooks
- Joshua Bryant
- Edgar Buchanan
- Joyce Bulifant
- Brooke Bundy
- Michael Burns
- Ellen Burstyn (aka Ellen McRae)
- Norman Burton
- Robert Burton
- Gary Busey
- Billy Green Bush
- Archie Butler
- Sebastian Cabot
- Frank Cady
- Howard Caine
- Joseph Campanella
- William Campbell
- J. D. Cannon
- Harry Carey Jr.
- Paul Carr
- David Carradine
- John Carradine
- Conlan Carter
- John Carter
- Anthony Caruso
- Albert Cavens
- Spencer Chan
- Virginia Christine
- Lee J. Cobb
- Fred Coby
- John Colicos
- Míriam Colón
- Christopher Connelly
- Chuck Connors
- Mike Connors
- Tim Considine
- Elisha Cook Jr.
- Bill Coontz[5]
- Charles Cooper
- Glenn Corbett
- Gretchen Corbett
- Jeff Corey
- Robert Cornthwaite
- Aneta Corsaut
- Dennis Cross
- Robert Culp
- James Daly
- Royal Dano
- Kim Darby
- Henry Darrow
- Bette Davis
- Jim Davis
- Richard Deacon
- Gloria DeHaven
- John Dehner
- Bruce Dern
- Joe De Santis
- William Devane
- Alan Dexter
- George DiCenzo
- Angie Dickinson
- Charles Dierkop
- Lawrence Dobkin
- James Doohan
- Burt Douglas
- Jerry Douglas
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Don Dubbins
- Andrew Duggan
- John Dullaghan
- Liam Dunn
- Robert Easton
- Buddy Ebsen
- Barbara Eden
- Jack Elam
- Dana Elcar
- Robert Ellenstein
- Sam Elliott
- Jena Engstrom
- Bill Erwin
- Gene Evans
- Jason Evers
- Diana Ewing
- Frank "Fidi" Fayad
- Pamelyn Ferdin
- John Fiedler
- Paul Fix
- Jay C. Flippen
- Nina Foch
- Constance Ford
- Harrison Ford
- Michael Forest
- Steve Forrest
- Jodie Foster
- Robert Foulk
- Anne Francis
- Bert Freed
- Joan Freeman
- Victor French
- Alan Fudge
- Beverly Garland
- Leif Garrett
- Will Geer
- Melissa Gilbert
- Gwynne Gilford
- Sam Gilman
- Ray Girardin
- Ned Glass
- Mark Goddard
- Thomas Gomez
- Harold Gould
- Dabbs Greer
- Julie Gregg
- James Gregory
- James Griffith
- Sam Groom
- Raymond Guth
- Herman Hack
- Joan Hackett
- Kevin Hagen
- Sid Haig
- Alan Hale Jr.
- Murray Hamilton
- Chick Hannan
- Jerry Hardin
- Mariette Hartley
- Edmund Hashim
- Johnny Haymer
- Eileen Heckart
- Katherine Helmond
- Tom Hennesy
- Chuck Hicks
- Joe Higgins
- Marianna Hill
- Robert Hogan
- Earl Holliman
- Rex Holman
- Dennis Hopper
- William Hopper
- Clint Howard
- Rance Howard
- Ron Howard
- Clyde Howdy
- Clegg Hoyt
- John Hoyt
- David Huddleston
- Marsha Hunt
- Kim Hunter
- Josephine Hutchinson
- Betty Hutton
- Craig Huxley
- Diana Hyland
- Steve Ihnat
- John Ireland
- Sherry Jackson
- Richard Jaeckel
- Anthony James
- Brion James
- Clifton James
- Salome Jens
- Roy Jenson
- James Jeter
- Ben Johnson
- Russell Johnson
- I. Stanford Jolley
- Henry Jones
- L. Q. Jones
- Mickey Jones
- Katherine Justice
- Robert Karnes[6]
- DeForest Kelley
- Jack Kelly
- Adam Kennedy
- George Kennedy
- Richard Kiley
- Wright King
- Jess Kirkpatrick
- Werner Klemperer
- Jack Klugman
- Ted Knight
- Yaphet Kotto
- Martin Kove
- Kay E. Kuter
- Diane Ladd
- Ethan Laidlaw
- Jack Lambert
- Martin Landau
- Sue Ane Langdon
- Robert Lansing
- Peyton Langston
- John Larch
- John Lasell
- Louise Latham
- Cloris Leachman
- Michael Learned
- Anna Lee
- Lance LeGault
- Mark Lenard
- Kay Lenz
- Geoffrey Lewis
- George Lindsey
- Joanne Linville
- Jonathan Lippe
- June Lockhart
- Gary Lockwood
- Robert Loggia
- Jack Lord
- Jon Lormer
- Tom Lowell
- William Lucking
- Karl Lukas
- Keye Luke
- BarBara Luna
- Herbert Lytton
- Tom McFadden
- Darren McGavin
- Barton MacLane
- Howard McNear
- Gerald McRaney
- Arthur Malet
- Lee Majors
- Kenneth Mars
- Lynne Marta
- Arlene Martel
- Ross Martin
- Strother Martin
- Charles Maxwell
- Rose Marie
- Scott Marlowe
- Ken Mayer
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Gloria McGehee
- John McLiam
- Joseph Mell
- Troy Melton
- Robert Middleton
- Vera Miles
- Denny Miller
- Donna Mills
- Cameron Mitchell
- Ricardo Montalbán
- Ron Moody
- Harry Morgan
- Read Morgan
- Diana Muldaur
- Richard Mulligan
- Burt Mustin
- Anna Navarro
- Gene Nelson
- Lois Nettleton
- Leslie Nielsen
- Leonard Nimoy
- Jimmy Noel
- Jeanette Nolan
- Nick Nolte
- France Nuyen
- J. Pat O'Malley
- Simon Oakland
- Warren Oates
- Richard O'Brien
- Carroll O'Connor
- Tim O'Connor
- Arvo Ojala
- Ken Olandt
- Gerald S. O'Laughlin
- Susan Oliver
- James Olson
- John Orchard
- Gregg Palmer
- Tex Palmer
- Woodrow Parfrey
- Michael Pate
- Hank Patterson
- John Payne
- Leo Penn
- Vic Perrin
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Brock Peters
- George O. Petrie
- Robert Phillips
- Slim Pickens
- Robert Pine
- Ed Platt
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Joe Ploski
- Michael J. Pollard
- Judson Pratt
- Andrew Prine
- Denver Pyle
- John Quade
- Ford Rainey
- Chips Rafferty
- Dack Rambo
- Gilman Rankin
- Tom Reese
- Richard Reeves
- John Reilly
- Carl Reindel
- Stafford Repp
- Alejandro Rey
- Madlyn Rhue
- Paul Richards
- Peter Mark Richman
- Pernell Roberts
- Elizabeth Rogers
- Wayne Rogers
- Gilbert Roland
- Ruth Roman
- Andy Romano
- Katharine Ross
- Al Ruscio
- Bing Russell
- Kurt Russell
- Fran Ryan
- Alfred Ryder
- Willard Sage
- Albert Salmi
- Steve Sandor
- Dick Sargent
- John Saxon
- William Schallert
- John Schuck
- Alex Sharp
- Karen Sharpe
- William Shatner
- Jacqueline Scott
- W. Morgan Sheppard
- Gregory Sierra
- Tom Simcox
- Joseph Sirola
- Tom Skerritt
- Hal Smith
- Milan Smith
- William Smith
- Quentin Sondergaard
- David Soul
- Olan Soule
- Aaron Spelling
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Craig Stevens
- Warren Stevens
- Charlotte Stewart (aka Charlotte Considine)
- Paul Stewart
- Guy Stockwell
- Leonard Stone
- Milburn Stone
- Don Stroud
- Liam Sullivan
- Hope Summers
- Frank Sutton
- Karl Swenson
- Loretta Swit
- Gloria Talbott
- William Talman
- Russ Tamblyn
- Vic Tayback
- Dub Taylor
- Guy Teague
- Roy Thinnes
- Brad Trumbull
- Forrest Tucker
- Cicely Tyson
- Robert Urich
- Joan Van Ark
- Lee Van Cleef
- Joyce Van Patten
- Vince Van Patten
- Robert Vaughn
- John Vernon
- Jan-Michael Vincent
- Jon Voight
- Jess Walton
- Lesley Ann Warren
- Ruth Warrick
- David Wayne
- Fritz Weaver
- Richard Webb
- Judi West
- Stuart Whitman
- James Whitmore
- Johnny Whitaker
- Grace Lee Whitney
- Peter Whitney
- Collin Wilcox
- Guinn Williams
- Noble Willingham
- Chill Wills
- William Windom
- Jason Wingreen
- Michael Witney
- Morgan Woodward
- Meg Wyllie
- Dana Wynter
- Anthony Zerbe
References
- ^ List of Gunsmoke episodes with complete cast at epguides.com
- ^ 1953 publicity photograph of Gunsmoke radio cast in character, wearing western costumes
- ^ a b Aaker, Everett (25 May 2017). Television Western Players, 1960-1975: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. p. 1846. ISBN 9781476662503. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Lentz, Harris M. (1997). Television Westerns Episode Guide: All United States Series, 1949-1996. McFarland & Company. pp. 181, 183, 184. ISBN 9780786403776. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ Scott Freese, Gene (April 10, 2014). Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s: A Biographical Dictionary, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 9780786476435 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ward, Jack (1993). Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies. McFarland. p. 267. ISBN 9780899508078 – via Google Books.
Sources
- Dunning, John. On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio.