Before he landed the “Virginian” gig, Drury guested on dozens of TV Westerns and a few features starting in the mid-1950s. He had roles on such series as “Gunsmoke,” “Have Gun – Will ...

Hopalong Cassidy was a popular TV, radio and comic series ... of a market for lunch containers — yet. Students who carried their lunch often did so in a re-purposed pail or tin of some kind.

Foster has long based the mentality of his approach on the lunch pail — an image steeped in the hard-nosed, blue-collar work ethic he’s instilled in his players. Tech players and coaches have ...

James Drury, who played the gruff title character of NBC's "The Virginian ... The series ran from 1962 to 1971 for nine seasons and 249 episodes, making it the third longest-running TV Western ...

The series was loosely based on Owen Wister’s 1902 novel “The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains,” in which the name of the main character was never revealed. In its last year, the TV show ...

In his first attempt at “The Virginian,” in a 1958 TV pilot, Mr. Drury played the character as a dandy with a lace shirt and a Southern accent. Four years later, when the series premiered on ...