Caption: "Gunsmoke" Milburn Stone, James Arness, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, Glenn Strange, Buck Taylor circa 1967
Actor, Soundtrack, Producer
Born: July 2, 1916
Star sign: Cancer
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Known for: Gunsmoke (1955), Ripcord (1961), The Searchers (1956), Robin Hood (1973)
Source: IMDB
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. They would probably be even more surprised to learn that he began his show business career ...