Richard Boone
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 18, 1917
- Died
- January 10, 1981 (aged 63)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Movie · as Sam Houston
The Bushido Blade
Movie · as Matthew Perry
Winter Kills
Movie · as Keifitz
The Big Sleep
Movie · as Lash Cansino
The Hobbit
Movie · as Smaug (voice)
The Last Dinosaur
Movie · as Masten Thrust Jr.
The Shootist
Movie · as Mike Sweeney
God's Gun
Movie · as The Sheriff
Against a Crooked Sky
Movie · as Russian
The Great Niagara
Movie · as Aaron Grant
The Century Turns
Movie · as Hec Ramsey
Goodnight, My Love
Movie · as Francis Hogan
Deadly Harvest
Movie · as Anton Solca
Hec Ramsey
TV · as Hec Ramsey · 11 eps
Big Jake
Movie · as John Fain
In Broad Daylight
Movie · as Tony Chappel
The Kremlin Letter
Movie · as Ward
Madron
Movie · as Madron
The Night of the Following Day
Movie · as Leer
The Arrangement
Movie · as Sam Arness
Kona Coast
Movie · as Capt. Sam Moran
Hombre
Movie · as Cicero Grimes
Cimarron Strip
TV · as Sergeant Bill Disher · 1 ep
The War Lord
Movie · as Bors
Rio Conchos
Movie · as Lassiter
The Richard Boone Show
TV · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Thunder of Drums
Movie · as Capt. Stephen Maddocks
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Right Man
Movie · as Abraham Lincoln
Ocean's Eleven
Movie · as Voice of Minister (voice) (uncredited)
The Alamo
Movie · as Gen. Sam Houston
I Bury the Living
Movie · as Robert Kraft
The Garment Jungle
Movie · as Artie Ravidge
The Tall T
Movie · as Frank Usher
Lizzie
Movie · as Dr. Neal Wright
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Paladin · 225 eps
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Away All Boats
Movie · as Lieut. Fraser
Star in the Dust
Movie · as Sam Hall
Battle Stations
Movie · as The Captain
Man Without a Star
Movie · as Steve Miles
Ten Wanted Men
Movie · as Wick Campbell
The Big Knife
Movie · as Narrator (Voice)
Robbers' Roost
Movie · as Hank Hays
Matinee Theater
TV · 1 ep
Frontier
TV · as Everett Brayer · 1 ep
Dragnet
Movie · as Capt .James E. Hamilton
The Raid
Movie · as Capt. Lionel Foster
The Siege at Red River
Movie · as Brett Manning
Climax!
TV · as Col. William Hughes, David Neff, Jarech, Detective Ed Brooks · 1 ep
Medic
TV · as Dr. Konrad Styner · 59 eps
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Movie · as Thomas Rhys
The Robe
Movie · as Pontius Pilate
Vicki
Movie · as Lt. Ed Cornell
City of Bad Men
Movie · as John Ringo
Man on a Tightrope
Movie · as Krofta
General Electric Theater
TV · as Abraham Lincoln · 1 ep
Red Skies of Montana
Movie · as Richard 'Dick' Dryer
Kangaroo
Movie · as John W. Gamble
Return of the Texan
Movie · as Rod Murray
Way of a Gaucho
Movie · as Major Salinas
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Local Press · 1 ep
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie · as Capt. Hermann Aldinger
Halls of Montezuma
Movie · as Lt. Col. Gilfillan
Call Me Mister
Movie · as Mess Sergeant
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Saxon, Vincent Giel · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Suspense
TV · as Mercer · 1 ep
The Front Page
TV · as Wilson · 18 eps
Studio One
TV · as John Wesley Hardin · 1 ep
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps