Name
Richard Boone
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-06-18
Deathday
1981-01-10 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for starring in the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel.
Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate lawyer and 4th great-grandson of Squire Boone 1744–1815, a brother to frontiersman Daniel Boone. His mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia.
Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California. He attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He dropped out of Stanford prior to graduation and then worked as an oil-rigger, bartender, painter, and writer. In 1941 Boone joined the United States Navy and served on three ships in the Pacific during World War II, seeing combat as an aviation ordnance, aircrewman and tail gunner on Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers and ended his service with the rank of petty officer first class.
In his youth, Boone had attended the San Diego Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California, where he was introduced to theatre under the tutelage of Virginia Atkinson.
After the war, Boone used the G.I. Bill to study acting at the Actors Studio in New York.
In 1950, Boone made his screen debut as a Marine officer in Milestone's Halls of Montezuma (1951). Fox used him in military parts in Call Me Mister (1951) and The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951). He had bigger roles in Red Skies of Montana (1952), Return of the Texan (1952), Kangaroo (1952) (directed by Milestone), and Way of a Gaucho (1952).
Boone was married three times: to Jane Hopper (1937–1940), Mimi Kelly (1949–1950), and Claire McAloon (from 1951 until his death).
Richard Boone died at his home in St. Augustine, Florida, due to complications from throat cancer. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.
Known For
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Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night...
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Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighter...
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Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughte...
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A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to bu...
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Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times ...
- 1977 The Hobbit as Smaug (voice)
- 1978 The Big Sleep as Lash Cansino
- 1971 Big Jake as John Fain
- 1953 Beneath the 12-Mile Reef as Thomas Rhys
- 1957 The Garment Jungle as Artie Ravidge
- 1951 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as Capt. Hermann Aldinger
- 1964 Rio Conchos as Lassiter
- 1976 The Shootist as Mike Sweeney
- 1958 I Bury the Living as Robert Kraft
- 1967 Hombre as Cicero Grimes
- 1979 Winter Kills as Keifitz
- 1953 The Robe as Pontius Pilate
- 1965 The War Lord as Bors
- 1957 The Tall T as Frank Usher
- 1955 Man Without a Star as Steve Miles
- 1954 Dragnet as Capt .James E. Hamilton
- 1953 Vicki as Lt. Ed Cornell
- 1970 The Kremlin Letter as Ward
- 1955 Ten Wanted Men as Wick Campbell
- 1951 Halls of Montezuma as Lt. Col. Gilfillan
- 1969 The Night of the Following Day as Leer
- 1955 The Big Knife as Narrator (Voice)
- 1969 The Arrangement as Sam Arness
- 1956 Away All Boats as Lieut. Fraser
- 1977 The Last Dinosaur as Masten Thrust Jr.
- 1954 The Raid as Capt. Lionel Foster
- 1976 God's Gun as The Sheriff
- 1961 A Thunder of Drums as Capt. Stephen Maddocks
- 1975 Against a Crooked Sky as Russian
- 1956 Star in the Dust as Sam Hall
- 1968 Kona Coast as Capt. Sam Moran
- 1952 Red Skies of Montana as Richard 'Dick' Dryer
- 1981 The Bushido Blade as Matthew Perry
- 1957 Lizzie as Dr. Neal Wright
- 1952 Kangaroo as John W. Gamble
- 1972 The Century Turns as Hec Ramsey
- 1971 In Broad Daylight as Tony Chappel
- 1972 Goodnight, My Love as Francis Hogan
- 1954 The Siege at Red River as Brett Manning
- 1955 Robbers' Roost as Hank Hays
- 1953 City of Bad Men as John Ringo
- 1970 Madron as Madron
- 1960 The Right Man as Abraham Lincoln
- 1952 Return of the Texan as Rod Murray
- 1952 Way of a Gaucho as Major Salinas
- 1974 The Great Niagara as Aaron Grant
- 1960 Ocean's Eleven as Voice of Minister (voice) (uncredited)
- 1960 The Alamo as Gen. Sam Houston
- 1951 Call Me Mister as Mess Sergeant
- 1956 Battle Stations as The Captain
- 1953 Man on a Tightrope as Krofta
- 2001 The Shootist: The Legend Lives On as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1972 Deadly Harvest as Anton Solca
- 1992 John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Sam Houston
- 1948 Studio One ( 1 episode ) as John Wesley Hardin
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Abraham Lincoln
- 1972 Hec Ramsey ( 11 episodes ) as Hec Ramsey
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 225 episodes ) as Paladin
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Saxon
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Col. William Hughes
- 1955 Matinee Theater ( 1 episode )
- 1954 Medic ( 59 episodes ) as Dr. Konrad Styner
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode ) as Mercer
- 1963 The Richard Boone Show ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1952 The Ford Television Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Local Press
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Vincent Giel
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as David Neff
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Jarech
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Detective Ed Brooks
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1955 Frontier ( 1 episode ) as Everett Brayer
- 1949 The Front Page ( 18 episodes ) as Wilson
- 1967 Cimarron Strip ( 1 episode ) as Sergeant Bill Disher
