James Drury
Acting
Born 1934-04-18
Died 2020-04-06
New York City, New York, USA
74 credits
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James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) 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.
Drury was born in New York City, the son of James Child Drury and Beatrice Crawford Drury. His father was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up between New York City and Salem, Oregon, where his mother owned a farm. Drury contracted polio at the age of 10.
He studied drama at New York University and took additional classes at UCLA to complete his degree after he began acting in films at MGM.
On February 7, 1957, Drury married Cristall Othones, and fathered two sons, Timothy and James III. The couple divorced on November 23, 1964 and on April 27, 1968, he married Phyllis Jacqueline Mitchell; the marriage ended in divorce on January 30, 1979. His third marriage was to Carl Ann Head on July 30, 1979; it lasted until her death on August 25, 2019. Drury had three stepchildren from his previous marriages, a stepdaughter, Rhonda Brown, and two stepsons, Frederick Drury and Gary Schero. Drury died from natural causes on April 6, 2020.
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Filmography
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Perry Mason
The Mike Douglas Show
Ironside
The Rifleman
Wagon Train
The Virginian
Have Gun, Will Travel
Rawhide
The Merv Griffin Show
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
The Red Skelton Show
Cheyenne
Gunsmoke
Walker, Texas Ranger
Lawman
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
The Bob Hope Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Rebel
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
The Texan
Alias Smith and Jones
The Detectives
Bronco
It Takes a Thief
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Trackdown
Bourbon Street Beat
Lock-Up
Broken Arrow
Black Saddle
The Wonderful World of Disney
Maverick
Forbidden Planet
Steve Canyon
Stagecoach West
Ride the High Country
Love Me Tender
Letter to Loretta
Pollyanna
Cameo Theatre
Blackboard Jungle
The Last Wagon
The Ed Wynn Show
The Tender Trap
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Firehouse
Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck
Ten Who Dared
Good Day for a Hanging
The Devil and Miss Sarah
Hell to Pay
Diane
The Bull of the West
The Meanest Men in the West
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