Don Durant

Don Durant was an American actor and singer, best known for his role as the gunslingerturnedsheriff in the CBS Western series Johnny Ringo, which ran on Thursdays from October 1, 1959 to June 30, 1960.

Durant was born as Donald Allison Durae in Long Beach, California. His father was killed in a truck accident near Bakersfield two months before Durants birth his mother remarried three times before she died of lung cancer at the age of only fortysix in 1959. Durant himself was seriously injured a few weeks before his eleventh birthday, when his bicycle chain broke, and he careened into the path of a cement truck. He lay in a coma for three days, his right arm fractured, his right femur and hip so badly damaged that doctors nearly amputated the leg before his family scraped up enough money for a specialist. Young Durant was bedridden for more than a year.

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