Randy Boone from the popular Western TV show The Virginian has died at age 83.
The North Carolina native passed away on August 28, his wife Lana told to The Hollywood Reporter.
He played Randy Benton on the long-running Western The Virginian. The star was on three of its seasons from 1964 to 1966.
His other work included stints on the CBS Western Cimarron Strip, NBC’s It’s a Man’s World as Vern Hodges and in The Twilight Zone’s 1963 episode The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms.
His other television and film roles included a 1963 one-episode stint on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, as aspiring reporter Francis Wilde in CBS’ Cimarron Strip in 1967, and in films such as 1966’s Country Boy and 1973’s Terminal Island.
Randy Boone from the popular Western TV show The Virginian has died at age 83. Seen with Jill Townsend on Cimarron
The North Carolina native passed away on August 28, his wife Lana told to The Hollywood Reporter
Boone’s later work included an appearance on Kurt Russell’s Western The Quest in 1976, a 1985 appearance on Highway to Heaven and a role in the 1987 film The Wild Pair, per IMDB.
Friends have since remembered him via social media tributes as ‘humble, soft spoken’ and a ‘great person.’
The actor went to North Carolina State College in Raleigh before heading to Los Angeles.
Boone got his on-screen start on It’s a Man’s World as Hodges.
The artist was also a singer.
He released his solo album, Ramblin’ Randy, in 1965, as well as The Singing Stars of The Virginian with co-star Roberta Shore that same year.
He played Randy Benton on the long-running Western The Virginian. The star was on three of its seasons from 1964 to 1966
(Ben Cartwright (series star Lorne Greene, left), takes the stand before Judge Borman (Charles Irving) to be questioned by Colter Preston (guest star Boone, right)
Boone attends the premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 in Hollywood
