Actor Larry Hagman, most famous for playing J.R. Ewing on the TV show Dallas, has been memorialised in bronze in his Texas hometown.
The actor was remembered on Sunday in Weatherford — west of Fort Worth — on what would have been his 83rd birthday with the unveiling of a life-size statue on the grounds of the Doss Heritage and Culture Centre.
Mayor Dennis Hooks says Hagman, who died in 2012, is Weatherford’s “favourite son”.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Hagman’s daughter, Kristina, was among hundreds to attend the unveiling ceremony on Larry Hagman Day.
She says the world knows about Texas in a way it never had because a son of Weatherford “brought understanding of what the essence of being a Texan is.”
