Posted on 04/06/2020 2:16:21 PM PDT by IndyTiger
James Drury, who starred as the no-name, no-nonsense foreman of the Shiloh Ranch on The Virginian, one of the longest-running Westerns in the history of television, died Monday of natural causes. He was 85.
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I watched it in the 80’s. A really good show.
What about Lee Majors and Linda Evans from the Big Valley
I’d forgotten (mainly because I was a wee lad at the time) but episodes were 90-minutes long with commercial breaks!
I don’t think any other show ever did that without pitching over into one-off specials or movies of some sort.
“When you call me that, smile”
The Virginian was another great TV western that I was blessed to grow up with.
My mother always thought James Drury was very good looking.
We’ll never have this kind of manhood on television again.
It must have been challenging to write the show’s script. I don’t think anyone ever addressed him directly because they had to refer to him as “The Virginian.” No one could yell, “Hey, Virginian!”
For the book think of him as mirror Trampas. Just picture Doug McClure with a goatee...
Well, when I think about it. Dan Blocker was the first major “hero” to die. For another, and it was but a mere year later, the second of note for me was Bruce Lee.
I remember watching Wagon Train with my parents, and wagon master Major Seth Adams (Ward Bond) but I was too young when he died to care much.
One of the great themes.
RIP, Virginian.
Al Kaline.
Did he have any part in the Drury Motel chain?
I watch them all on Encore Western. Sadly I have kept count of those who are gone. Clint Walker passed a year ago leaving Drury and Clint Eastwood as the last of the TV western heros. Now I believe Eastwood stands alone.
I actually didn’t care that much for the book, either. I thought it was always a challenge to figure out time and place of the events.
Two actors down. Who’s next?
Al Kaline died today, too.
Blocker died in 1972 at age 43 of a pulmonary embolism following gall bladder surgery. That really was young.
I thought Michael Landon died real soon after, but it was 19 years later in 1991.
I’m still a man old school
I doubt anyone here would argue that
I’m 62 not long after I was born men were born that are different they’re less masculine no question about that kind of pitiful
Coincides with women being about themselves rather than their family
I’m still a man old school
I doubt anyone here would argue that
I’m 62 not long after I was born men were born that are different they’re less masculine no question about that kind of pitiful
Coincides with women being about themselves rather than their family
Soros if their is Justice in the World
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