James Drury

James Child Drury, Jr. , is an American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 19621971.

Drury was born on April 18, 1934, in New York City, where his father James, Sr., was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up in both New York and Oregon. Drury contracted polio at the age of ten.

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