The hand of the singing ranch “ the virginian ” was 83

Randy Boone, who played the hand of the guitar singing Hand Randy Benton on the classic NBC Western The Virginiandied Thursday, August 28. He was 83 years old.

His death was reported to the Hollywood reporter by his wife Lana. Additional details have not been disclosed.

Born Clyde Wilson Randall Boone Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Fayetteville, in North Carolina, Boone then attended the North Carolina State College in Raleigh before abandoning and doing hitchhiking in California to try as an actor. His first concert was a 19 episodes on the 1962-Drama comedy It’s a man of a man About three young men living in a barge on the Ohio river. A Costar was future This girl The actor Ted Bessell.

With Man’s world Canceled after only four months, Boone was a star guest in such a series that Alfred Hitchcock time, train wagon, the fugitive And The twilight zone (In the memorable episode of 1963 “The 7th is composed of Phantoms”, he played a national goalkeeper returned in time to the battle of the Little Bighorn), all before winning his passage of 70 episodes 1964-66 on The Virginian.

The Virginian Cabinet Doug McClure and James Drury, who died respectively in 1995 and 2020.

Boone later said that he was dismissed by producer Frank Price. “I was told that [Price] I thought that I dressed and that I was not necessary in the series, but I think that I needed as much as anyone. “”

Price died last week, three days before Boone.

After his passage of two seasons on the long race The VirginianBoone played from 1967 to 1968 on the CBS Western series Cimarron band Alongside Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert and Jill Townsend. He made appearances in episodic guests well in the 1980s on programs such as Lassie, Emergency!, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Gunsmoke, Kung Fu, And Autoroute in paradiseamong others.

On the film side, Boone played in the years 1966 ComradeAbout a young country musician rising.

Boone left to act in the late 1980s and, according to THR, worked in construction until retired. Complete information on survivors were not immediately available.