Goodbye to The Virginian

I grew up in the era where one of the main genres of TV show was the Western. I loved Bonanza, the Big Valley, High Chaperral - and The Virginian, starring James Drury.
James Drury has just died, aged 85. I've been looking at his screen credits, and he was in a lot of Westerns, but I hadn't realised that he also appeared in Forbidden Planet as one of the crewmen of the C-57D.
The article in Variety says that, in recent years, he toured Western events, talking about the Old West and cowboy values.