No, but actor Peter Graves was Arness' brother.
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In the Duke's filmography, no character named "Dylan" or "Dillon" is listed.John Wayne was a good friend of James Arness, and, to SOME extent (the amount is disputed), helped Arness get the role of Marshall Dillon in the TV show Gunsmoke.
No, although he helped James Arness land the star part. He also did an ad for this TV series.
John Wayne.
John Wayne's first movie appearance was not in a western. He is first seen in the movie "Brown of Harvard" in 1926; in which he plays a football player and has no speaking part. His first Western role was in "The Big Trail" (1930) but his breakout role was nine years later in John Ford's "Stagecoach" (1939), the movie which made him a box-office star. When the TV series "Gunsmoke" premiered on TV in 1955, Wayne introduced James Arness in the starring role. (see related link)
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