Richard Boone

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Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who appeared in more than 50 films and was best known for his portrayal in Westerns, including his starring role in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel.

Early life

Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate attorney and Squire Boone's fourth great-grandson of Squire Boone, brother to frontiersman Daniel Boone. His mother, who was the daughter of immigrants from Russia, was Jewish.

Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in Glendale, California. He studied at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He dropped out of Stanford prior to graduating and went back to work as an oil rigger, bartender, painter, and writer. During World War II, Boone joined the United States Navy and served on three ships in the Pacific, including combat as an aviation ordnanceman, aircrewman, and tail gunner on Grumman TBF Avenger's torpedo bombers and retired with the rank of first class.

Personal life

Boone married three times: Jane Hopper (1937-1940), Mimi Kelly (1949–1950), and Claire McAloon (1951–1950) (from 1951 to his death). Peter Boone, McAloon, appeared as a child actor in several Have Gun – Will Travel episodes.

Boone was injured in a car accident in 1963.

Richard Boone came from Hawaii in 1970 and spent time in Cross and Sword, the annual local production of Cross and Sword, when he was not acting on television or in films until just before his death in 1981. Boone was named Florida's cultural ambassador in the last year of his life.

He wrote "It Seems To Me" for a small, free newspaper called The Town and Traveler during the 1970s. Any paper copies are in his St. Augustine Historical Society's biographical file. In 1972–1973, he taught acting classes at Flagler College.

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Acting career

Boone attended the San Diego Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California, where he was introduced to theatre under the tutelage of Virginia Atkinson in his youth.

Boone used the G.I. after the war. Bill will study acting at the Actors Studio in New York.

Boone debuted on Broadway in 1947 with Medea, starring Judith Anderson and John Gield; it ran for 214 performances. He was then in a Macbeth (1948) production. Boone appeared in a short lived TV series based on the play The Front Page (1949-1950), as well as anthology series based on Actors Studio and Suspense.

He starred in The Man (1950), directed by Martin Ritt and Dorothy Gish; it ran for 92 performances.

For a film screen-test conducted by director Lewis Milestone, Elia Kazan used Boone to feed lines to an actor. Milestone was not impressed with the actress, but he was sent to Hollywood, where he was given a seven-year deal with Fox.

In 1950, Boone made his film debut as a Marine officer in Milestone's Halls of Montezuma (1951). In Call Me Mister (1951) and The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951), Fox used him in military roles. He had his roles in Red Skies of Montana (1952), Return of the Texan (1952), Kangaroo (1952), and Way of a Gaucho (1952).

Kazan directed him in Man on a Tightrope (1953) and City of Bad Men (1953) a film by a Tightrope (1953).

He appeared in The Robe, the first Cinemascope film, in 1953. He had only one scene in the film in which he gives Richard Burton, who plays the centurion, commands to crucify Christ. Boone appeared in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), his second Cinemascope film.

The Siege at Red River (1954) and The Raid (1954) were two films produced by Boone for Panoramic, who were distributed on Fox. He then left the studio.

Jack Webb, who was then producing and starring in Dragnet, was befriended during the filming of Halls of Montezuma. Boone appeared in the film version of Dragnet (1954).

For NBC, Webb is preparing a web series about a doctor. Boone starred in the lead role in that medical drama titled Medic, from 1954 to 2005, and received an Emmy Award for Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series in 1955.

Boone continued to appear in films and guest-star on television shows while on Medic, and he continues to appear in television shows. He appeared in Western films including Ten Wanted Men (1955) with Randolph Scott, Man Without a Star (1955) with John Agar (1955), and Away All Boats (1956) with Jeff Chandler.

He appeared on GM, Matinee Theatre (a production of Wuthering Heights where he played Heathcliff), Frontier, Lux Video Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, and Climax!

In The Tall T (1957) with Randolph Scott, Boone had one of his finest roles. He co-starred with Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957) and was a villain in The Garment Jungle (1957).

Because of his role as Paladin, the intelligent and sophisticated, but tough, gun-for-hire in the late 19th-century American West, Boone's next television series, Have Gun – Will Travel, made him a national celebrity. Randolph Scott, the actor who turned it down and gave the script to Boone when they were making the film Ten Wanted Men, had been the first broadcaster to attend. Boone received two more Emmy nominations in 1959 and 1960, respectively, during the show's run from 1957 to 1963, with Boone receiving two more Emmy nominations.

During the show's run, Boone appeared in the film I Bury the Living (1958) and appeared on Broadway in 1959, portraying Abraham Lincoln in "The Rivalry" which ran for 81 performances.

He appeared on television programs such as episodes of Playhouse 90 and The United States Steel Hour, and the 1960 film The Right Guy. Sam Houston appeared in The Alamo (1960), a starring role in A Thunder of Drums (1961), and narrated a television version of John Brown's Body.

Boone appeared on What's My Line?, the Sunday night CBS-TV quiz show, as an occasional guest panelist and also a mystery visitor. On that show, he talked with host John Charles Daly about their time on the television show The Front Page.

The Richard Boone Exhibition was Boone's first television anthology. Despite the fact that it aired from 1963 to 1964, he received his fourth Emmy nomination for it, as well as The Danny Kaye Show and The Dick Van Dyke Exhibition. In 1964, Richard Boone's Best Show was named a Golden Globe.

Boone and his family migrated to Honolulu, Hawaii, after the end of the run of his weekly show.

He'd return to the mainland to appear in films such as Rio Conchos (1964), The War Lord (1965) with Charlton Heston (1967) with Paul Newman, and an episode of Cimarron Strip (1964). The actor appeared on another person's show for the first time, and he did it as a favour for the director, friend Lamont Johnson. "It's getting harder and harder to do your best work on television," he said.

In 1965, he came in third place in the Best Action Performance award for Rio Conchos; Sean Connery won first place with Goldfinger and Burt Lancaster took second place with The Train, and Burt Lancaster came in second place second.

While living in Oahu, Boone helped convince Leonard Freeman to film Hawaii Five-O exclusively in Hawaii. Freeman had intended to photograph "establishing" location shots in Hawaii, but the main production in Southern California was delayed until that. Boone and others convinced Freeman that the islands would provide all necessary assistance for a major television series and would give an authenticity otherwise unobtainable.

Boone's admiration of Hawaii inspired him, but Boone declined; the position was given to Jack Lord, who expressed Boone's admiration for the area, which Freeman considered vital. Lord had appeared alongside Boone in the first episode of Have Gun Will Travel titled "Three Bells to Perpeto," coincidentally.

At the time, Boone had shot Kona Coast (1968), which he wished CBS would include as a series ("I really don't want to do another series," he said. "But I've been fighting for three years to get production going in Hawaii, and if a series will do it, I'll do it." Instead, the show was limited to Hawaii Five-O. Boone co-produced Kona Coast, a theatrical production, was first unveiled on Kona Coast.

Boone continued to concentrate on films: The Night of the Following Day (1969) with Marlon Brando, The Arrangement (1969) with Douglas for Elia Kazan, John Huston, and Big Jake (1971) with John Wayne.

In Broad Daylight (1971), Deadly Harvest (1972), and My Love (1972) are two television shows by Boone. He migrated to Florida around this time.

Boone starred in the short-lived TV series Hec Ramsey, which Jack Webb produced for Mark VII Limited Productions, and it was about a turn-of-the-20th-century Western-style police detective who preferred to use his brain and criminal skills rather than his rifle. In his youth, Ramsey's back story depicted him as a frontier policeman and gunman. He was now the deputy chief of police of a small town in Oklahoma, a veteran gunman and clutching a short-barreled Colt Single Action Army revolver. "You know, Hec Ramsey is a lot like Paladin, only fatter," Boone said to an interviewer in 1972. This quote was often misinterpreted as indicating that Hec Ramsey was a sequel to Have Gun – Will Travel, when it wasn't.

Boone appeared in the 1970 film Madron (1970), the first Israeli-produced film shot outside Israel, set in the American West of the 1800s. He accepted an invitation from Israel's Commerce Ministry to provide Israel's film industry with "Hollywood know-how" in that year. In 1979, he received an award from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin "for his contribution to Israeli cinema."

In Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976), he appeared in The Great Niagara (1974) and Against a Crooked Sky (1975) and helped John Wayne a third time. Boone, a writer who had previously studied acting, returned to The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York in the mid-1970s to teach.

Boone fought God's Gun (1976) with Leif Garrett, Lee Van Cleef, and Jack Palance. He appeared in The Last Dinosaur (1977) and The Big Sleep (1978), as the dragon's voice in J. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit's 1977 animated film version.

In Winter Kills (1979) and The Bushido Blade (1979), Boone's last appearances were present in Winter Kills (1979).

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