{"id":2228812,"date":"2026-01-09T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2228812"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:15:22","slug":"gunsmoke-actor-dies-at-83-a-good-and-gentle-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gunsmoke-actor-dies-at-83-a-good-and-gentle-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gunsmoke\u2019 actor dies at 83: \u2018A good and gentle man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actor Roger Ewing, best known for playing deputy marshal Thad Greenwood on the long-running western \u201cGunsmoke,\u201d has died. He was 83. <\/p>\n

His family reported<\/a> that he died on Dec. 18. A cause of death was not provided. <\/p>\n

Ewing first appeared on \u201cGunsmoke\u201d at age 23 in 1965 as a character named Ben Lukens, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith Thad\u2019s family gone, Matt, Kitty, Doc and Festus sort of adopted him,\u201d he once said about the character. \u201cAnything that needed to be done, you know, an extra hand here, and extra hand there, Thad was aways around. He fit in whenever necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

He took on the role of Greenwood in October, during season 11 of the show. He ended up appearing as the character on 50 episodes of the show before being dropped from the show in 1967. <\/p>\n

In addition to \u201cGunsmoke,\u201d Ewing also appeared on episodes of \u201cBewitched,\u201d \u201cThe Bing Crosby Show,\u201d \u201cRawhide,\u201d and \u201cThe Baileys of Balboa.\u201d <\/p>\n

He also appeared in such movies as \u201cNone But the Brave,\u201d which starred Frank Sinatra, \u201cSmith!\u201d and \u201cPlay It As It Lays.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger was a good and gentle man whose life touched so many people in different ways including through his acting career,\u201d his friend Linda Brady wrote in remembrance on his obituary page.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ewing later quit acting and took up photography. He was also active in politics and ran for a city council seat in his home of Morro Bay, California, in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actor Roger Ewing, best known for playing deputy marshal Thad Greenwood on the long-running western \u201cGunsmoke,\u201d has died. He was 83. His family reported that he died on Dec. 18. A cause of death was not provided. Ewing first appeared on \u201cGunsmoke\u201d at age 23 in 1965 as a character named Ben Lukens, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228813,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228812\/revisions\/2228813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}