Gunsmoke
1955
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Ken Curtis. Actor: Gunsmoke. Considering the kind of scruffy, backwoods, uneducated, Deep-South hillbilly types he played, many people would be surprised to hear that Ken Curtis wasn't actually born in the south but in the small town of Las Animas, Colorado, the son of the town sheriff.
May 1, 1991 · Ken Curtis, a singer and actor who played the scruffy deputy Festus on the television series "Gunsmoke," died in his sleep on Sunday at his home. He was 74 years old. His death was attributed...
Dec 4, 2021 · For more than a decade, actor Ken Curtis played Festus Haggen, the loyal sidekick to Marshal Matt Dillion (star James Arness) on the long-running television series “Gunsmoke.” Curtis fully inhabited the role of the perennially disheveled and unshaven Festus, a man with a unique hillbilly accent who could be curmudgeonly and comical at the ...
Former big-band vocalist (he joined the Tommy Dorsey Band after Frank Sinatra left) and singing cowboy in low-budget westerns of the 1940s, ken Curtis is best known as the scuffy bewhiskered...
By Staff. Apr 30, 1991. Ken Curtis, a singer and actor who starred as Marshal Matt Dillon's sidekick on the long-running television western "Gunsmoke," has died at age 74. Curtis, who played...
Ken Curtis (born Curtis Wain Gates; July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American actor and singer best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the western television series Gunsmoke. He appeared on Gunsmoke earlier in other roles (such as “Brisco” in S4E32’s “Change of Heart").
Apr 28, 1991 · Ken Curtis is known as an Actor and Producer. Some of his work includes Robin Hood, The Searchers, The Horse Soldiers, The Alamo, The Killer Shrews, The Quiet Man, Gunsmoke, and Rio Grande.
