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Richard Boone

Richard Boone

Actor · 1917 – 1981 · Los Angeles, California, USA

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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  • Movie7.1

    The Alamo

    1960 · 411 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Shootist

    1976 · 396 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Ocean's Eleven

    1960 · 422 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Robe

    1953 · 297 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Red Skies of Montana

    1952 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Hobbit

    1977 · 381 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Big Jake

    1971 · 254 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Hombre

    1967 · 251 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Man Without a Star

    1955 · 125 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Tall T

    1957 · 154 votes

  • Movie6.7
  • Movie5.0

    Diamante Lobo

    God's Gun

    1976 · 39 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Big Sleep

    1978 · 104 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Ten Wanted Men

    1955 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Arrangement

    1969 · 68 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Big Knife

    1955 · 99 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The War Lord

    1965 · 78 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Star in the Dust

    1956 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.6

    A Thunder of Drums

    1961 · 28 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Bushido Blade

    1981 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Man on a Tightrope

    1953 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

    1953 · 35 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Halls of Montezuma

    1951 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Raid

    1954 · 34 votes

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  • TV7.5
  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.8
  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV5.7

    Cimarron Strip

    1967 · 13 votes

  • TV7.5

    Frontier

    1955 · 2 votes

  • TV7.5

    The Richard Boone Show

    1963 · 2 votes

  • TV6.3

    Medic

    1954 · 7 votes

  • TV7.3

    Hec Ramsey

    1972 · 6 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV7.0

    The Front Page

    1949 · 1 votes