Elliotts recurring role of Miss Kitty, the wife of Sam Conagher, died in the same year as the series. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Strange died on Sept. 20, 1973. In later years, his limp made him unable to take part in a long day of filming. Monteith's life was both short and difficult. He was blacklisted during the era of McCarthyism for pleading the Fifth Amendment and not ratting on his friends in the business, but managed to bounce back later in his career, landing parts in Ghost, Barney Miller, and History of the World: Part I, among many others. He is interred at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery. did amanda blake wear a wig on gunsmoke. Glenn Strange was an actor born in the New Mexico Territory. google_ad_channel =""; 200 of them were B westerns. The Associated Press reported that Blake, who had lived in Phoenix, learned of the cancellation only after the shows 19th season. To make up for the lost role, an actor . On television, the lead role was played by James Arness, and Stone starred alongside other legends like Roy Rogers and Michael Douglas. Did Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke really play the fiddle? The resemblance was so strong, a photo of Stranges Frankensteins monster appeared in Karloffs obituary. He also starred in the 1981-82 series McClains Law, which starred Marshall Colt. In 1954, Strange played Sheriff Billy Rowland in Jim Davis's syndicated Western series Stories of the Century.