# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-drury
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:26:50.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-drury"
name: "James Drury"
slug: "james-drury"
description: "James Child Drury Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971."
tagline: "American actor; oil and natural gas business (1934–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Drury_The_Virginian.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-04-18"
deathDate: "2020-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.58
  momentum:             1.722726596219676
  historical:           20.30044133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0238628"
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    title: "James Drury"
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    title: "James Drury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیمز دروری"
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    title: "James Drury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Drury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Drury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Drury"
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    title: "James Drury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q487514"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/123524"
    title: "James Drury"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump