Current Grady County, Georgia Population, Demographics and stats in 2016, 2017.
James Arness as Matt Dillon in the television version of Gunsmoke (1956) Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.
Ken Curtis; Played 'Festus' on 'Gunsmoke'. April 30, 1991 | BURT A. FOLKART | TIMES STAFF WRITER. Ken Curtis, who as a boy helped out in his father's jail in Colorado and as a character named Festus Haggen performed similar work for Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke, is dead.pril 30, 1991 | BURT A. FOLKART | TIMES STAFF WRITER. Ken Curtis, who as a boy helped out in his father's jail in Colorado and as a character named Festus Haggen performed similar work for Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke, is dead.