James Drury

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James Child Drury Jr. (born April 18, 1934) is an American actor best known for his role in The Virginian, a 90-minute weekly Western television series, which was shown on NBC from 1962 to 1971.

Early years

Drury was born in New York City and the son of James Child Drury and Beatrice Crawford Drury. His father, a professor of marketing at New York University, was a professor of marketing at the University of New York. He grew up in Salem, Oregon, where his mother owned a farm. At the age of ten, Drury contracted polio.

Since being cast in films at MGM, he studied drama at New York University and took additional classes at UCLA to finish his degree.

Personal life and death

Drury married Cristall Othones in 1957, 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. On July 30, 1979, he married Carl Ann Head, and it continued until her death on August 25, 2019. Drury had three stepchildren from his previous marriages, Rhonda Brown, a stepdaughter, and two stepsons, Frederick Drury and Gary Schero. Drury died from natural causes on April 6, 2020, just 12 days shy of his 86th birthday.

In the 1964 US presidential election, Drury favors Barry Goldwater.

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Career

Drury's professional acting career began when he was 12 years old, when he appeared in the Life with Father of a road company.

In 1954, he signed a film deal with MGM and appeared in bit parts in films. He appeared in Love Me Tender (1956) and Bernardine (1957), which was after he went to 20th Century Fox.

In the episode "Murder at the Mansion" on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, 1959, Drury was portrayed as Harding, Jr. In the episode "Client Neal Adams" of ABC's Western series Black Saddle, Drury appeared as Neal Adams early in his career.

Drury appeared on "Ten Feet of Nothing" on the syndicated anthology program "Death Valley Days," hosted by Stanley Andrews on Christmas Eve 1959. Joe Plato, a young miner, was depicted by the doctor in a young age.

Drury appeared in two episodes, "Fair Game" and "Vindication," of another ABC Western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams as a Confederate adventurer wandering through the American West's post-Civil War. In the episode "The Bleymier Story" of NBC's Wagon Train on November 16, 1960, Drury played young pioneer Justin Claiborne. George Dodds, Nancy Olson's love interest, was also featured in the 1960 Disney film Pollyanna.

In 1960, Drury played Joe Darle in the ABC/Warner Bros. detective series Bourbon Street Beat's episode "Wall of Silence." In 1961, he appeared in "The Case of the Missing Melody" as a singer and prosecutor.

He has appeared in secondary roles for Disney. In 1962, he appeared in a major role as a lascivious gold prospector in the early Sam Peckinpah Western Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea. Drury appeared in an episode of Wagon Train, The Cole Crawford Story, on April 11, 1962. (S5, E28).

Drury was on the top-billed leading role of the ranch foreman on The Virginian, a sprawling series that ran for nine seasons until 1971. Drury was put on a 7-year deal with Universal in 1962, and was the front-runner for the position, but he had to audition three times and was required to forfeit 30 pounds in 30 days to obtain the role. Drury said he had based his Virginian performance on character traits of his maternal grandfather, with whom he had spent a substantial portion of his childhood.

In three weeks, Drury and his Wilshire Boulevard Buffalo Hunters band performed 54 USO-sponsored shows for troops in Vietnam.

Drury reprised his title role in The Men from Shiloh on NBC (1970–1971). 981 In the ABC television drama series Firehouse in 1974, Spike Ryerson played the leading role.

Drury appeared in 1993 as Captain Tom Price on the first three episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, opposite Chuck Norris and Clarence Gilyard. Bill Pullman's 2000 TV film The Virginian starring Dr. Cury was also an actor in a cameo appearance. The film closely followed Wister's book more closely than the television version. Drury appeared in a number of films and television series, including The Young Warriors and the TV cowboy reunion film The Gambler Resides: The Lucky Draw with Doug McClure, who portrayed Trampas in The Virginian.

Drury was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City in 1991. He appeared at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, between 1997 and 2003.

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