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Jack J. Hayes, the composer of music for the tv series 'Happy Days' and numerous others has died. He was 92 years old. Hayes not only scored the familiar 'Happy Days' theme, he also wrote music for 'Gunsmoke' and 'Laverne & Shirley'. He was big in movie orchestration too, scoring music for 'Up', 'Star Trek', 'Mission: Impossible III', 'Taxi Driver', and 'The Three Musketeers'. He was a col

Actor James Arness, who played the legendary Marshal Matt Dillon on the popular Western series 'Gunsmoke,' died Friday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson has confirmed. He was 88. The larger-than-life actor, who stood at a towering 6'7," played the indelible Marshal for 20 seasons and over 600 episodes, helping to make 'Gunsmoke' one of the longest-running pri