James Drury
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James Child Drury Jr. (born April 18, 1934) is an American actor best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962–71.

James Child Drury Jr. was born on April 18, 1934, in New York City, the son of James Child Drury and Beatrice Crawford Drury. His father was a New York University professor of marketing at New York University. He grew up in both New York and Oregon. Drury contracted polio at the age of ten.

He studied drama at New York University and took additional classes at UCLA to complete his degree after he began acting in films at MGM.

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

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