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James Drury
James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971.
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Born 18 April 1934 · Died 6 April 2020 · Q487514
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1997· 1 entry
And 2003, he was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina
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1993· 1 entry
Drury had a guest-starring role as Captain Tom Price on the first three episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, opposite Chuck Norris and Clarence Gilyard
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1991· 1 entry
Drury was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City
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1964· 1 entry
And on April 27, 1968, he married Phyllis Jacqueline Mitchell; the marriage ended in divorce on January 30, 1979
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1962· 3 entries
Drury played the title role in an episode of Wagon Train, "The Cole Crawford Story", (S5, E28)
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And was the front-runner for the role, but he still had to audition three separate times and was required to lose 30 pounds in 30 days to secure the part
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Was cast in a substantial role as a lascivious gold prospector in the early Sam Peckinpah Western Ride the High Country (1962) opposite Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea
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1961· 1 entry
In the role of musician and defendant Eddy King in "The Case of the Missing Melody"
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1960· 3 entries
Drury played young pioneer Justin Claiborne in the episode "The Bleymier Story" of NBC's Wagon Train
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Drury appeared in different roles in two episodes, "Fair Game" and "Vindication", of another ABC Western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams as a Confederate adventurer roaming through the post-Civil War American West
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Drury portrayed Joe Darle in the episode "Wall of Silence" of the ABC/Warner Bros
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1959· 2 entries
Early in his career, Drury appeared as Neal Adams in the episode "Client Neal Adams" of ABC's Western series Black Saddle
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Drury was cast as Harding, Jr
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1957· 1 entry
Drury married Cristall Othones, and fathered two sons, Timothy and James Child III
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-04-18.
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