George Fenneman series, and then with John Stephenson when Dragnet returned to TV in 1967. It was Fenneman's voice which announced, "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent." while Stephenson would be heard at the end of the episode describing the court trials and verdicts. He was the principal commercial announcer for the radio version of "Gunsmoke", and frequently introduced "Matt Dillon" (William Conrad) after the episode to extoll the virtues of L&M or Chesterfield cigarettes. He appeared on screen in the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World" and the
Matt Dillon are stored at UCLA, where a legal dispute makes it unavailable to the public. One of his next roles was in "Liar's Moon", where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich banker's daughter. In the early 1980s, Dillon also had prominent roles in three adaptations of S. E. Hinton novels: "Tex" (1982), "The Outsiders" (1983) and "Rumble Fish" (1983). All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown. "The Outsiders" and "Rumble Fish" had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola and Diane Lane. He followed those up with "The Flamingo Kid" in