Actor James Drury stepped on a rainbow this am...
Back in the day we had tables next to each other
at the big Houston Astrohall Gun shows...
Nice guy..

Always liked him as an actor.....RIP ! memtb

Bummer... RIP...
I was watching some 1st season reruns over Christmas and Jan.

Those old westerns were really just soap operas with horses and guns.

9years ,25-30/year, was a long run back then...... IIRC I had to go to bed 2/3 of the way through the 90 minutes...................

Ian Drury was also the original Sheriff Lam Trevors in the Alias Smith & Wesson pilot.

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What a shame. We watch the Virginian every afternoon.

RIP

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...good show and actor...

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There is a nice little article in the Hollywood Reporter about him. Here is a bit from it. I like the values he got from his grandfather.


(His maternal grandfather, John Crawford, who had come west with a wagon train from Missouri in 1875 or 1880, taught him woodsman skills and marksmanship and instilled in him the values that Drury said he brought to his Virginian character.

"I've always called it 'The Cowboy Way,'" he said in 2014. "If it's not true, don't say it. If it's not yours, don't take it. And if it's not right, don't do it.")

I think I saw him at the Tulsa gunshow years ago.

RIP James Drury.
I also meet him at a Houston gun show some years ago and what was funny to me was. He looked at me as I was browsing his table and says 'You don't recognize me, do ya.' and introduced his self. Meaning he had added some years since the Virginian. He was most pleasant to talk to.

Sis and I used to watch they show religiously. Rest in peace.

Since our "Shelter in Place" I've been watching The Virginia several times each day. Haven't watched this great show in many years.

RIP J.Drury.

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Wow, I am watching the Virginian right now, clicked into the forum and saw this. Great actor an show.

He was a Gun Collector ?

Yes JimmyJ. The gun he carried on the Virginian was his personal gun. He had it custom built (or custom gunsmithed if you will). If you go YouTube and look up "A Word on Westerns" you will find a number of interviews by the host with Drury (and many other old western actors.)

Another of my childhood memories passes.

R.I.P.

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I would have liked to meet him. If he was in real life anywhere near what he portrayed in the program he was a real gentleman.

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I saw a show on him some time back, where he was overseas somewhere (can't recall where it was) and he was treated like royalty over there. He was some big superstar, but it didn't seem to affect him at all. He seemed like a very gentle and likeable man, like his character "The Virginian".

I try to catch it most afternoons as well. But here lately, I'm watching The POTUS make his 6:00 daily report to the country instead. I've seen most of the old westerns, a few times, but they never get old.

RIP Virginian.

RIP - James Drury.