highest rated
acting
- Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice → Matt Dillon
- Gunsmoke: The Long Ride → Matt Dillon
- Gunsmoke: To the Last Man → Matt Dillon
- Gunsmoke: The Last Apache → Matt Dillon
- John Wayne Standing Tall → Self - Host
- Red River → Thomas Dunson
- The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory → Jim Bowie
- Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge → Matt Dillon
- McClain's Law (TV) → Det. Jim McClain
- The Horror Show → (archive footage)
- How the West Was Won (TV) → Zeb Macahan
- The Macahans → Zeb Macahan
- Why Vietnam? → Narrator
- Alias Jesse James → Marshal Matt Dillon (uncredited)
- The Western: A Lost TV Special → Self
- Gun the Man Down → Rem Anderson
- The First Traveling Saleslady → Joel Kingdom
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Marshal Matt Dillon
- The Sea Chase → Schlieter
- Many Rivers to Cross → Esau Hamilton
- The Johnny Carson Show (TV)
- Flame of the Islands → Kelly Rand
- Them! → FBI Agent Robert Graham
- Her Twelve Men → Ralph Munsey
- Hondo → Lennie
- Island in the Sky → Mac McMullen
- The Lone Hand → Gus Varden
- The Veils of Bagdad → Targut
- Horizons West → Tiny McGilligan
- Hellgate → George Redfield
- Big Jim McLain → Mal Baxter
- Carbine Williams → Leon Williams
- The Girl in White → Matt
- The Red Skelton Show (TV) → Self
- The Thing from Another World → 'The Thing'
- Iron Man → Alex Mallick
- The People Against O'Hara → John Fordman 'Johnny' O'Hara
- Cavalry Scout → Barth
- Two Lost Worlds → Kirk Hamilton
- Lux Video Theatre (TV) → Chuck Scott
- In a Lonely Place → Young Detective (uncredited)
- Wagon Master → Floyd Clegg
- Stars in My Crown → Rolfe Isbell (uncredited)
- Sierra → Little Sam (as Jim Arness)
- Wyoming Mail → Russell
- Battleground → Garby
- The Ed Sullivan Show (TV) → Self
- The Man from Texas → (uncredited)
- The Farmer's Daughter → Peter Holstrom (as James Aurness)
- Roses Are Red → Ray (as James Aurness)
- Front Row Center (TV)