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The star of NBC\u2019s long-running The Virginian, Randy Boone, passed away at the age of 83 on Thursday, August 29, 2025. His wife broke the news but gave no reason behind his death. Boone remains immortalized in television history.<\/p>\n
Randy Boone has appeared in other roles after his stint on The Virginian. However, audiences will always remember him as the ranch hand, Randy Benton, who sang and played his guitar while riding his own horse for years on the NBC<\/a> show.<\/p>\n Boone\u2019s wife told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that the legendary actor passed away on Thursday. She gave no particular reason for the demise.<\/p>\n Apart from The Virginian, Boone also appeared on It\u2019s a Man\u2019s World and Cimarron Strip, which both lasted for a season. He also made an appearance in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode, The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms.<\/p>\n Boone joined The Virginian in its second season in 1964 and stayed for 46 episodes on the show. At the end of the fourth season, he left the show.<\/p>\n \u201cI was told that [producer] Frank [Price] thought I was window dressing and wasn\u2019t needed on the show, but I feel that I was needed as much as anybody,\u201d Boone said about this role in Paul Green\u2019s 2006 book, A History of Television\u2019s The Virginian, 1962-1971, he added, \u201cI think a show suffers when you make big changes and you lose the actors that caused the people to fall in love with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Apart from his acting and singing skills, Boone was also a great horseback rider and had his own horse, Clyde. He used this horse in The Virginian as well.<\/p>\n Following his acting years, Boone got into the construction business in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n He will remain one of television\u2019s bright stars from its early era.<\/p>\n The post The Virginian Star Randy Boone Dies at 83<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The star of NBC\u2019s long-running The Virginian, Randy Boone, passed away at the age of 83 on Thursday, August 29, 2025. His wife broke the news but gave no reason behind his death. Boone remains immortalized in television history. The Virginian\u2019s Randy Boone passes away due to undisclosed reasons Randy Boone has appeared in other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1991513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[359934,359520,359525],"class_list":["post-1991512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-randy-benton","tag-randy-boone","tag-the-virginian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Virginian-Star-Randy-Boone-Dies-at-83.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}