{{Short description|American rancher and model (1929–2015)}} {{infobox person | name = Darrell H. Winfield | birth_place = Kansas, Oklahoma, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|07|30}} | death_place = Riverton, Wyoming, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2015|01|12|1929|07|30}} | occupation = rancher, model | known_for = Marlboro Man in TV and magazine advertisements }}
'''Darrell H. Winfield''' (July 30, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American rancher and model<ref name=ohist>{{cite web|url=http://tobaccodocuments.org/ness/8660.html |title=Oral History Interview with Darrel Winfield by Scott Ellsworth |last1=Ellsworth |first1=Scott |date=August 27, 1986 |work=tobaccodocuments.org |access-date=December 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615153034/http://tobaccodocuments.org/ness/8660.html |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> best known as "The Marlboro Man" in television commercials and magazine advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes. He was a macho cowboy whose image in advertising from the 1950s to the late 1990s made filtered cigarettes more appealing to men.<ref name=":0" />
==Biography== Winfield was born in Kansas, Oklahoma. His family relocated to California's San Joaquin Valley when he was six years old. This move was part of the "Okie migration" of the 1930s in which many midwest farming families, devastated by the Dust Bowl, headed west to California to start over.<ref name="google204">{{cite book |title=Producing Fashion; Commerce, Culture and consumers|year=2008 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location= Philadelphia |isbn=978-0-8122-4037-5 |page=204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKyNmzMSp34C&pg=PA204}}</ref> He was the Marlboro Man from 1968 until 1989.<ref name="google204"/> He is also credited with being the most portrayed man in the world by some.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Ad Excavators;Two Smithsonian Historians, Seeking Out the Sales Pitches of Yesteryear |first=Elizabeth |last=Kastor |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 24, 1988 }}</ref> Philip Morris has used many cowboys for their ads but has declared that Winfield was "really the Marlboro man."<ref>{{cite news |title=Marlboro man's legacy |first= M|last=Rucci |newspaper=Sunday Herald Sun |date= September 27, 1992 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Rough Ride |first=John |last= Marchese|newspaper=The New York Times |date= September 13, 1992 }}</ref>
As an adult, Winfield moved to Wyoming and began ranching. Executives from Leo Burnett Worldwide, an advertising agency, visited the ranch where Winfield was working in June 1968 to take photographs for a new Phillip Morris sales campaign. They liked Winfield's looks and asked him if he would be interested in working for Marlboro. The first Marlboro advertisement featuring Winfield was "The Sheriff".<ref>Bergon, Frank, "West of California: A Visit With the Marlboro Man. ''Audience.'' Vol 1, No. 5 (September–October 1971): 42–48.</ref>
In a 1986 interview, Winfield stated that he thought that his "life would have basically been the same" had he not been given the chance to work for Marlboro.<ref name=ohist />
==Death and legacy== Winfield died in Riverton, Wyoming, on January 12, 2015, aged 85.<ref name=":0">[http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jan/14/darrell-winfield-long-serving-marlboro-man-dies-wy/ Darrell Winfield, long-serving Marlboro Man, dies in Wyoming at 85]. ''The Associated Press''. January 14, 2015.</ref> That year Winfield was inducted into the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |title=Darrel Winfield |url=https://www.wyomingcowboyhalloffame.org/darrel-winfield |website=Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame |access-date=January 24, 2020}}</ref>
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