James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying ... he learned to fly in the late 1960s so he could easily get to remote surf breaks in Baja California. Arness, who also skied and ...

As most of you know by now we lost an American Icon last week with the passing of James Arness. What many of you ... one of the main crew at San Onofre Surf Beach for decades before he hurt ...

He taught them how to swim and what he referred to as his “favorite” sport, which was surfing. When Arness wasn’t filming Gunsmoke, he wanted to continue making valuable memories with the ...

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According to a TV Guide interview, Arness refused to film Gunsmoke on ... Rolf became 1970’s World Surfing Champion, while Jenny appeared in two episodes of Gunsmoke. The actor married Janet ...

James Arness, 88, the iconic actor who rode "Gunsmoke ... They had three children: Rolf Aurness, winner of the 1970 World Surfing Championship; Craig Aurness (Chapman's son, whom Arness adopted ...

He was the World Surfing Champion in 1970, but the talented goofyfoot son of the hugely popular television actor James Arness (born James Aurness, who played Marshall Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke ...

James Arness, who presided over the frontier town ... Rolf Aurness, who was the world surfing champion in 1970; a stepson, Jim Surtees; and six grandchildren. Mr. Arness was nominated three ...

LOS ANGELES — James Arness, the towering actor best known for ... he learned to fly in the late ’60s so he could easily get to remote surf breaks in Baja. Mr. Arness, who also skied and ...