Richard Boone
Acting
Born: June 18, 1917 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: January 10, 1981 (aged 63)
Highest Rated
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
Ocean's Eleven
1960
The Alamo
1960
The Shootist
1976
The Hobbit
1977
The Robe
1953
Big Jake
1971
Hombre
1967
The Tall T
1957
Man Without a Star
1955
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
The Big Sleep
1978
The Big Knife
1955
Photos (4)
Movies (52)
Ocean's Eleven
Voice of Minister (voice) (uncredited)
The Robe
Pontius Pilate
Hombre
Cicero Grimes
The Alamo
Gen. Sam Houston
The Shootist
Mike Sweeney
The Big Sleep
Lash Cansino
The Hobbit
Smaug (voice)
The War Lord
Bors
Ten Wanted Men
Wick Campbell
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Capt. Hermann Aldinger
Big Jake
John Fain
The Tall T
Frank Usher
Red Skies of Montana
Richard 'Dick' Dryer
The Arrangement
Sam Arness
The Bushido Blade
Matthew Perry
The Last Dinosaur
Masten Thrust Jr.
Winter Kills
Keifitz
A Thunder of Drums
Capt. Stephen Maddocks
Man Without a Star
Steve Miles
The Kremlin Letter
Ward
God's Gun
The Sheriff
The Big Knife
Narrator (Voice)
Away All Boats
Lieut. Fraser
Star in the Dust
Sam Hall
Kangaroo
John W. Gamble
The Raid
Capt. Lionel Foster
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Thomas Rhys
Halls of Montezuma
Lt. Col. Gilfillan
Vicki
Lt. Ed Cornell
Battle Stations
The Captain
Way of a Gaucho
Major Salinas
Rio Conchos
Lassiter
Man on a Tightrope
Krofta
The Garment Jungle
Artie Ravidge
Lizzie
Dr. Neal Wright
In Broad Daylight
Tony Chappel
Robbers' Roost
Hank Hays
City of Bad Men
John Ringo
I Bury the Living
Robert Kraft
Dragnet
Capt .James E. Hamilton
The Right Man
Abraham Lincoln
The Night of the Following Day
Leer
Deadly Harvest
Anton Solca
The Siege at Red River
Brett Manning
The Century Turns
Hec Ramsey
Madron
Madron
Kona Coast
Capt. Sam Moran
Goodnight, My Love
Francis Hogan
Return of the Texan
Rod Murray
Against a Crooked Sky
Russian
Call Me Mister
Mess Sergeant
The Great Niagara
Aaron Grant
TV Shows (15)
Have Gun, Will Travel
Paladin · 225 eps
Climax!
Col. William Hughes · 1 eps
Climax!
David Neff · 1 eps
Climax!
Jarech · 1 eps
Climax!
Detective Ed Brooks · 1 eps
Matinee Theater
1 eps
Studio One
John Wesley Hardin · 1 eps
Suspense
Mercer · 1 eps
The Ford Television Theatre
Local Press · 1 eps
Cimarron Strip
Sergeant Bill Disher · 1 eps
Frontier
Everett Brayer · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Abraham Lincoln · 1 eps
Medic
Dr. Konrad Styner · 59 eps
The Richard Boone Show
1 eps
Hec Ramsey
Hec Ramsey · 11 eps
