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, including his starring role in the television series '' Have Gun – Will Travel''.

Early life

Boone was born in

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, the middle child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, a corporate lawyer and fourth great-grandson of Squire Boone, frontiersman Daniel Boone's brother.The Kelsay Family
from the

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website; accessed April 11, 2017. His mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Russia. Richard Boone graduated from Hoover High School in

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. He attended

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, 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

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and served on three ships in the Pacific during World War II, seeing combat as an

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, aircrewman, and tail gunner on Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, and ended his service with the rank of petty officer first class.

Acting career

Early training

In his youth, Boone had attended the San Diego Army and Navy Academy in

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, 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.

Broadway

"Serious" and "methodical", Boone debuted on the Broadway theatrical scene in 1947 with ''

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'', starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud; it ran for 214 performances. He was then in a production of ''

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'' (1948). Boone appeared in a short-lived TV series based on the play '' The Front Page'' (1949–50), and on anthology series such as '' Actors Studio'' and ''

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.'' He returned to Broadway in '' The Man'' (1950), directed by Martin Ritt, with Dorothy Gish; it ran for 92 performances.

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used Boone to feed lines to an actress for a film

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done for director Lewis Milestone. Milestone was not impressed with the actress, but he was impressed enough with Boone's voice to summon him to Hollywood, where he was given a seven-year contract with Fox.

20th Century Fox

In 1950, Boone made his screen debut as a

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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 ''

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'' (1952), ''

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'' (1952) (directed by Milestone), and ''

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'' (1952). Kazan directed him in ''

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'' (1953) and he had good parts in '' Vicki'' (1953) and ''

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'' (1953) In 1953, he played

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in '' The Robe'', the first

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film. He had only one scene in the film, in which he gives instructions to Richard Burton, who plays the

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ordered to crucify

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. Boone also appeared in the second Cinemascope film, ''

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'' (1953).Rothel p. 15 Boone made two films for Panoramic, which distributed through Fox: '' The Siege at Red River'' (1954) and '' The Raid'' (1954). He then left the studio.

''Medic''

During the filming of ''Halls of Montezuma'', he befriended

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, who was then producing and starring in '' Dragnet''. Boone appeared in the film version of '' Dragnet'' (1954). Webb was preparing a series about a doctor for NBC. From 1954–56, Boone became a familiar face in the lead role of that

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, titled '' Medic,'' and in 1955 received an

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nomination for Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series. While on ''Medic,'' Boone continued to appear in films and guest-star on television shows. He was cast in Westerns such as '' Ten Wanted Men'' (1955) with Randolph Scott, '' Man Without a Star'' (1955) with

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, '' Robbers' Roost'' (1955) with George Montgomery, ''Battle Stations'' (1955) with John Lund, '' Star in the Dust'' (1956) with John Agar, and '' Away All Boats'' (1956) with Jeff Chandler. He also guest-starred on '' General Electric Theater'', '' Matinee Theatre'' (a production of '' Wuthering Heights'' where he played Heathcliff), '' Frontier'', ''

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'', '' The Ford Television Theatre'', '' Studio One in Hollywood'', and '' Climax!''. Boone had one of his best roles in '' The Tall T'' (1957) with Randolph Scott. He co-starred with Eleanor Parker in '' Lizzie'' (1957) and was a villain in '' The Garment Jungle'' (1957).

''Have Gun – Will Travel''

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

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'' (1958) and appeared on Broadway in 1959, starring as

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in ''The Rivalry'', which ran for 81 performances. He occasionally did other acting appearances such as episodes of ''

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'' and ''

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'' and TV movie ''

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'' (1960). He had a cameo as Sam Houston in ''

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'' (1960), a starring role in '' A Thunder of Drums'' (1961) and narrated a TV version of '' John Brown's Body''. Boone was an occasional guest panelist and also a mystery guest on '' What's My Line?'', the Sunday-night

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quiz show. On that show, he talked with host John Charles Daly about their days working together on the TV show ''The Front Page.''

''The Richard Boone Show''

Boone had his own television anthology, '' The Richard Boone Show''. Although it aired only from 1963 to 1964, he received his fourth Emmy nomination for it in 1964 along with '' The Danny Kaye Show'' and ''

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.'' ''The Richard Boone Show'' won a

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for Best Show in 1964.

Hawaii

After the end of the run of his weekly show, Boone and his family moved to

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. He returned to the mainland to appear in films such as '' Rio Conchos'' (1964), '' The War Lord'' (1965) with

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, '' Hombre'' (1967) with

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, and an episode of '' Cimarron Strip''. The latter was the first time he guest-starred on someone else's show and he did it as a favor for the director, friend Lamont Johnson. "It's harder and harder to do your best work on TV," he said."Richard Boone: a Different Time", ''Los Angeles Times'', May 11, 1967, p. D26. In 1965, he came in third in the

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for ''Rio Conchos'' in Best Action Performance;

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won first place with '' Goldfinger'' and Burt Lancaster won second place with '' The Train''. While he was living on

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, Boone helped persuade

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to film '' Hawaii Five-O'' exclusively in Hawaii. Prior to that, Freeman had planned to do "establishing" location shots in Hawaii, but principal production in

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. Boone and others convinced Freeman that the islands could offer all necessary support for a major TV series and would provide an authenticity otherwise unobtainable. Freeman, impressed by Boone's love of Hawaii, offered him the role of Steve McGarrett; Boone turned it down, however, and the role went to Jack Lord, who shared Boone's enthusiasm for the region, which Freeman considered vital. Coincidentally, Lord had appeared alongside Boone in the first episode of ''Have Gun – Will Travel,'' titled "Three Bells to Perdido". At the time, Boone had shot a pilot for CBS called '' Kona Coast'' (1968), which he hoped CBS would adopt as a series ("I really don't want to do another series," he said "but I've been battling for three years to get production going in Hawaii and if a series will do it, I'll do it."), but the network went instead only with ''Hawaii Five-O''. ''Kona Coast'' – which Boone co produced – was released theatrically.

Films

Boone then focused on films: ''

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'' (1969) with

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, '' The Arrangement'' (1969) with Douglas for

, '' The Kremlin Letter'' (1970) for

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, and ''

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'' (1971) with

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. Boone did some TV movies, '' In Broad Daylight'' (1971), '' Deadly Harvest'' (1972), and '' Goodnight, My Love'' (1972). Around this time he moved to Florida.

''Hec Ramsey''

In the early 1970s, Boone starred in the short-lived TV series ''

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,'' which

produced for Mark VII Limited Productions, and which was about a turn-of-the-20th-century Western-style police detective who preferred to use his brain and criminal forensic skills instead of his gun. The character Ramsey's back story had him as a frontier lawman and gunman in his younger days. Older now, he was the deputy chief of police of a small city in Oklahoma, still a skilled shooter, and carrying a short-barreled Colt Single Action Army revolver. Boone said to an interviewer in 1972, "You know, Hec Ramsey is a lot like Paladin, only fatter." This quote was often misinterpreted to mean that ''Hec Ramsey'' was a sequel to ''Have Gun – Will Travel,'' when it actually was not.

Israel

Boone starred in the 1970 film ''

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

Final performances

He starred in The Great Niagara (1974) and ''

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'' (1975) and supported John Wayne a third time, in Wayne's final film, '' The Shootist'' (1976). In the mid-1970s, Boone returned to The

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in New York City, where he had once studied acting, to teach. Boone did '' God's Gun'' (1976) with Leif Garrett, Lee Van Cleef, and

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. He appeared in ''

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'' (1977) and '' The Big Sleep'' (1978), and provided the character voice of the dragon Smaug in the 1977 animated film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit''. Boone's last appearances were in ''

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'' (1979) and '' The Bushido Blade'' (1979).

Personal life

Boone was married three times: to Jane Hopper (1937–1940), Mimi Kelly (1949–1950), and Claire McAloon (from 1951 until his death). His son with McAloon, Peter Boone, worked as a child actor in several ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' episodes. In 1963, Boone was injured in a car accident. Boone moved to

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, from Hawaii in 1970 and worked with the annual local production of '' Cross and Sword'', when he was not acting on television or in movies, until shortly before his death in 1981. In the last year of his life, Boone was appointed Florida's

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. During the 1970s, he wrote a newspaper column, called "It Seems to Me", for a small, free publication called ''The Town and Traveler''. Some paper copies are in his biographical file at the St. Augustine Historical Society. He also gave acting lectures at Flagler College in 1972–1973.

Death

Boone died at his home in St. Augustine, Florida, due to complications from throat cancer. His ashes were scattered in the

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off Hawaii."Richard Boone"
biography,

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Filmography

Film

* '' Halls of Montezuma'' (1951) as Lt. Col. Gilfillan * '' Call Me Mister'' (1951) as Mess Sergeant * '' The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel'' (1951) as Captain Hermann Aldinger * ''

'' (1952) as Richard 'Dick' Dryer * ''

'' (1952) as John W. Gamble * ''

'' (1952) as Major Salinas * ''

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'' (1952) (uncredited) * ''

'' (1953) as Krofta * '' Vicki'' (1953) as Lt. Ed Cornell * '' The Robe'' (1953) as

* ''

'' (1953) as John Ringo * ''

'' (1953) as Thomas Rhys * ''

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'' (1954) as Brett Manning * '' The Raid'' (1954) as Capt. Lionel Foster * '' Dragnet'' (1954) as Captain Jim Hamilton * '' Ten Wanted Men'' (1955) as Wick Campbell * '' Man Without a Star'' (1955) as Steve Miles * '' Robbers' Roost'' (1955) as Hank Hays * '' The Big Knife'' (1955) as Narrator (voice, uncredited) * ''Battle Stations'' (1956) as The Captain * '' Star in the Dust'' (1956) as Sam Hall * '' Away All Boats'' (1956) as Lieut. Fraser * '' The Tall T'' (1957) as Frank Usher * '' Lizzie'' (1957) as Dr. Neal Wright * '' The Garment Jungle'' (1957) as Artie Ravidge * ''

'' (1958) as Robert Kraft * '' Ocean's 11'' (1960) as Minister (voice, uncredited) * ''

'' (1960) as General Sam Houston * '' A Thunder of Drums'' (1961) as Captain Stephen Maddocks * '' Rio Conchos'' (1964) as James Lassiter * '' The War Lord'' (1965) as Bors * '' Hombre'' (1967) as Grimes * '' Kona Coast'' (1968) as Capt. Sam Moran * ''

'' (1968) as Leer * '' The Arrangement'' (1969) as Sam Arness * '' The Kremlin Letter'' (1970) as Ward * ''

'' (1970) as Madron * ''

'' (1971) as John Fain * ''The Singing Filipina'' (1971) as Himself * ''

'' (1975) as Russian * '' Diamante Lobo'' (1976) as The Sheriff * '' The Shootist'' (1976) as Mike Sweeney * ''

'' (1977) as Maston Thrust Jr. * '' The Big Sleep'' (1978) as Lash Canino * ''

'' (1979) as Keifitz * '' The Bushido Blade'' (1981) as Commodore Matthew C. Perry (final film role)

TV

* '' Actors Studio'': 3 episodes (1949–1950) * '' The Front Page'': 10 episodes (CBS, 1949–1950) * ''

'': episode "Photo Finish", as Mercer (1950) * '' Medic'': 59 episodes, as Dr. Konrad Styner (1954–1956) * '' Climax!'': 4 episodes, various roles (1955–1957) * '' Matinee Theatre'': episode "Wuthering Height", Heathcliff (1955) * '' General Electric Theater'': episode "Love Is Eternal",

(1955) * ''

'': episode "The Hunted", Saxon (1955) * '' The Ford Television Theatre'', ''Catch at Straws'', local press man (1956) * ''

'': episode "A House of His Own", Vincent Giel (1956) * ''Frontier'': episode "The Salt War", Everett Brayer (1956) * '' Studio One in Hollywood'': episode "Dead of Noon", as John Wesley Hardin (1957) * '' Have Gun – Will Travel'': all 225 episodes, as Paladin, and Smoke, (1957–1963) * ''

'': 3 episodes, in various roles, (1958–1960) * ''

'': 2 episodes in various roles, (1959–1960) * ''The Right Man'' (TV movie): as Abraham Lincoln (1960) * '' The Richard Boone Show'': 25 episodes, in various roles, (1963–1964) * '' Cimarron Strip'': episode "The Roarer", as Sergeant Bill Disher (1967) * ''The Mark Waters Story'' (1969) * '' In Broad Daylight'': as Tony Chappel (1971) * '' Deadly Harvest'': as Anton Solca (1972) * ''

'': all 10 episodes, as Deputy Police Chief Hec Ramsey, (1972–1974) * '' Goodnight, My Love'': as Francis Hogan (1972) * '' The Great Niagara'' (TV movie): as Aaron Grant (1974) * ''

'' (1977) * '' The Hobbit'': as Smaug (voice) (1977)

References

Bibliography

* Rothel, David (2001). ''Richard Boone: A Knight Without Armor in a Savage Land''. Madison, NC: Empire Publishing,

External links

* * *
Richard Boone
at Virtual History

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