# Darrell Winfield

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{{Short description|American rancher and model (1929–2015)}}
{{infobox person
| name               = Darrell H. Winfield
| birth_place        = [Kansas, Oklahoma](/source/Kansas%2C_Oklahoma), U.S.
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1929|07|30}}
| death_place        = [Riverton, Wyoming](/source/Riverton%2C_Wyoming), U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2015|01|12|1929|07|30}}
| occupation         = rancher, model
| known_for          = [Marlboro Man](/source/Marlboro_Man) in TV and magazine advertisements
}}

'''Darrell H. Winfield''' (July 30, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American rancher and [model](/source/Model_(person))<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](/source/Marlboro_Man)" in [television commercial](/source/television_commercial)s and [magazine](/source/magazine) [advertisement](/source/Advertising)s for [Marlboro](/source/Marlboro_(cigarette)) 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](/source/Kansas%2C_Oklahoma). His family relocated to [California](/source/California)'s [San Joaquin Valley](/source/San_Joaquin_Valley) when he was six years old. This move was part of the "[Okie](/source/Okie) migration" of the 1930s in which many midwest farming families, devastated by the [Dust Bowl](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Philip_Morris_USA) 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](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date= September 13, 1992 }}</ref>

As an adult, Winfield moved to Wyoming and began ranching. Executives from [Leo Burnett Worldwide](/source/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](/source/Frank_Bergon), "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](/source/Riverton%2C_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](/source/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>

== See also ==

* [Marlboro Man](/source/Marlboro_Man)

== References ==

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