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unusual facts about The Virginian



Bernard McEveety

His Western directing credits include such television series as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, The Big Valley,Young Maverick and the miniseries How the West Was Won.

Clay Tanner

He began his career with roles in various TV productions such as Bonanza, The Fugitive, Get Smart, Perry Mason, McHale's Navy, The Outer Limits, The Virginian, and Stoney Burke.

Howard Browne

In Hollywood, Browne wrote for television shows including Maverick, Ben Casey, and The Virginian.

Jacey Eckhart

Eckhart wrote over 400 newspaper columns for The Virginian-Pilot, in Norfolk, Virginia, using her knowledge and experience with military life.

Lisa Gerritsen

After The Doris Day Show, Gerritsen had guest-star or cameo appearances in several television shows including The Odd Couple, Bonanza, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Virginian and Family Affair.

Patrick McVey

Manhunt was canceled in 1961, and McVey continued his career with guest roles on various television series including General Electric Theater, Cheyenne, The Rifleman, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Virginian, Gunsmoke and three appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of District Attorney Covington in the 1959 episode, "The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom."

Richard A. Colla

His directorial credits include The Virginian, Battlestar Galactica, McCloud, Miami Vice, MacGyver, Hunter, Murder, She Wrote, Gunsmoke, Ironside, Trapper John, M.D. and other series.

Roberta Shore

Shore was featured very prominently as a series regular within the first three seasons of The Virginian as Betsy Garth, the daughter of Shiloh Ranch owner Judge Garth played by Lee J. Cobb.

Russell Thorson

He appeared in guest-starring roles in such television series as Tales of Wells Fargo, Trackdown, Wagon Train, Lassie, Peyton Place, and The Virginian, and is also known for his role as a ship captain in "Cocoon", the pilot episode of CBS's original Hawaii Five-O, starring Jack Lord.

William Bakewell

He also was cast in episodes of Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Roaring 20s, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, and 87th Precinct He played the Virginia statesman George Wythe in the episode "George Mason" in the 1965 NBC documentary series, Profiles in Courage.


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Deep Water, West Virginia

However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.

Gary Clarke

In July 2003, Clarke and Drury, along with two other The Virginian costars, Roberta Shore and singer Randy Boone, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.

H. Reid

Following a long friendship with the Assistant to the General Manager of the coal-hauling Virginian Railway, after that company's merger into the N&W in 1959, he wrote his epoch work, The Virginian Railway, which was published by Kalmbach in 1961.

Lillian Sinnott

Sinnott was engaged as the leading woman in The Chorus Lady, The Virginian, and Arsene Lupin.

Owen Wister Review

The journal was established in 1978 and named for Owen Wister, who set the first modern western novel, The Virginian, not far from Laramie in the town of Medicine Bow.

Page-Vawter House

According to author and railroad historian H. Reid in his book The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was in this mansion that Page developed the plans for the coal-hauling Virginian Railway, which was financed by industrialist Henry Huddleston Rogers and became the "Richest Little Railroad in the World" after its completion in 1909.

Thomas Cornwallis

In 1635 Cornwallis fought the Virginian colonist William Claiborne over the jurisdiction of Kent Island, and captured it in 1638.

Virginian Golf Club

The Virginian Golf Club, designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1992, is a luxury golf community located in Bristol, Virginia.