area and always made sure that the local schoolhouse had free firewood in the winter. In January 1901 Bean stated that a claim for damages of $13,000 from Apache depredations of his mules would certainly be allowed. Bean died peacefully in his bed on March 16, 1903 after a bout of heavy drinking in San Antonio. He and his son, Sam Bean (1874–1907), are interred at the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio. In 1965, as part of the Civil War Centennial commemoration in Texas, an official Texas Historical Marker honoring Bean was erected on the museum grounds in Del Rio, Texas. In popular culture Films The Westerner, a 1940 film directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, features Roy Bean (played by Walter Brennan) as one of the main characters, for which Brennan won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. The movie gives Bean an entirely fictitious death scene. A Time for Dying was a 1969 film portraying the Vinegaroon period; Audie Murphy starred as Jesse James and Victor Jory played a half-crazed Judge Roy Bean. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), a heavily fictionalized comedy film, starring Paul Newman as Bean. Television Judge Roy Bean, a fictionalized 1955 syndicated television series. Edgar Buchanan portrayed Bean. In the episode "Law West of the Pecos" (June 7, 1959) of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt .45, Frank Ferguson is cast as Judge Bean. Lisa Gaye portrays June Webster and Douglas Kennedy is cast as Jay Brisco. The western anthology series Death Valley Days episode "A Picture of a Lady", first broadcast on December 30, 1965, depicts Lillie Langtry (Francine York) traveling to Langtry after the death of Judge Bean (Peter Whitney). Paul Fix was cast in the episode as Bean's friend Doc Lathrop. In another Death Valley Days episode, "A Sense of Justice" (1966), Tom Skerritt played a young Bean while he was in San Diego, California, with his older brother, Joshua, played by Tris Coffin. In the story line, Roy is jailed after he gets into a fight with a local man; Joshua is unsympathetic at his brother's plight. In a second-season episode of The Monkees, "The Devil and Peter Tork", Billy Beck played Judge Bean, presiding over the trial between Peter and the Devil. Lillie (1978), Tommy Duggan played the role in this British miniseries biopic of Lillie Langtry. In the Fantasy Island