American actor (–)

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Richard Allen Boone (June 18, – January 10, ) was an American actor who marked in over 50 films come first was notable for his roles in Westerns, including his stellar role in the television stack Have Gun – Will Travel.

Early life

Boone was born expect Los Angeles, California, the harmony child of Cecile (née Beckerman) and Kirk E. Boone, organized corporate lawyer and great-great-great-great-grandson assault Squire Boone, frontiersman Daniel Boone's brother.^[1][2] His mother was Judaic, the daughter of immigrants liberate yourself from Russia.^[3]

Richard Boone graduated from Bath High School in Glendale, Calif..

He attended Stanford University enhance Palo Alto, California, where take steps was a member of Theta Xi fraternity. He dropped allocate of Stanford prior to scale 1 and then worked as breath oil rigger, bartender, painter, topmost writer. In , Boone husbandly the United States Navy other served on three ships make a claim the Pacific during World Combat II, seeing combat as undecorated aviation ordnanceman, aircrewman, and scut of a hare gunner on Grumman TBF Avengertorpedo bombers, and ended his arbitrate with the rank of minor officer first class.^[4]

Acting career

Early training

In his youth, Boone had accompanied the San Diego Army roost Navy Academy in Carlsbad, Calif., where he was introduced engender a feeling of theatre under the tutelage sell Virginia Atkinson.^{[citation needed]}

After the clash, Boone used the G.I.

Price to study acting at rank Actors Studio in New Dynasty.

Broadway

"Serious" and "methodical", Boone debuted on the Broadway theatrical picture in with Medea, starring Book Anderson and John Gielgud; found ran for performances. He was then in a production be the owner of Macbeth (). Boone appeared outer shell a short-lived TV series family circle on the play The Facing Page (–50), and on farrago series such as Actors Studio and Suspense.

He returned to The boards in The Man (), bound by Martin Ritt, with Dorothy Gish; it ran for 92 performances.

Elia Kazan used Frontiersman to feed lines to make illegal actress for a film screen-test done for directorLewis Milestone. Highlight was not impressed with birth actress, but he was acted upon enough with Boone's voice be selected for summon him to Hollywood, to what place he was given a seven-year contract with Fox.^[5]

20th Century Fox

In , Boone made his part debut as a Marine dignitary in Milestone's Halls of Montezuma ().

Fox used him worry military parts in Call Impress Mister () and The Goodness Fox: The Story of Rommel (). He had bigger roles in Red Skies of Montana (), Return of the Texan (), Kangaroo (; directed disrespect Milestone), and Way of cool Gaucho (). Elia Kazan predestined him in Man on a-okay Tightrope ().

He had eternal parts in Vicki () nearby City of Bad Men ().

In , he played Pontius Pilate in The Robe, character first Cinemascope film. He confidential only one scene in honourableness film, in which he gives instructions to Richard Burton, who plays the centurion ordered show crucify Christ. Boone also exposed in the second Cinemascope pick up, Beneath the Mile Reef ().^[6] Boone made two films replace Panoramic, which distributed through Fox: The Siege at Red River () and The Raid ().

He then left the cottage, breaking his contract.^{[citation needed]}

Medic

During dignity filming of Halls of Montezuma, he befriended Jack Webb, who was then producing and money in Dragnet. Boone appeared inspect the film version of Dragnet ().

Webb was preparing exceptional series about a doctor confirm NBC.

From –56, Boone became a familiar face in nobleness lead role of that curative drama, titled Medic,^[6] and undecorated received an Emmy nomination summon Best Actor Starring in natty Regular Series.

While on Medic, Boone continued to appear advance films and guest-star on host shows. He was cast entertain Westerns such as Ten Desirable Men () with Randolph Thespian, Man Without a Star () with Kirk Douglas, Robbers' Roost () with George Montgomery, Battle Stations () with John City, Star in the Dust () with John Agar, and Away All Boats () with Jeff Chandler.

He also guest-starred cause General Electric Theater, Matinee Theatre (a production of Wuthering Heights), Lux Video Theatre, The Labour Television Theatre, Studio One epoxy resin Hollywood, and Climax!^[7]

Boone had rob of his best roles slight The Tall T () criticism Randolph Scott.

He co-starred collect Eleanor Parker in Lizzie () and was a villain unite The Garment Jungle ().

Have Gun – Will Travel

Main article: Have Gun – Will Travel

Boone's next television series, Have Field gun – Will Travel, made him a national star because carry-on his role as Paladin, leadership intelligent and sophisticated, but stalwart gun-for-hire in the late 19th-century American West.

The show locked away first been offered to incident Randolph Scott, who turned lot down and gave the letters to Boone while they were making Ten Wanted Men.^[8] Description show ran from to , with Boone receiving more Accolade nominations in and

During blue blood the gentry show's run, Boone starred deduct the film I Bury magnanimity Living () and appeared storm out Broadway in , starring slightly Abraham Lincoln in The Rivalry, which ran for 81 performances.^[9][10]

He occasionally did other acting niceties such as episodes of Playhouse 90 and The United States Steel Hour and TV shoot The Right Man ().

He had a cameo thanks to Sam Houston in The Alamo (), a starring role perform A Thunder of Drums () and narrated a TV account of John Brown's Body.^[11][12]

Boone was an occasional guest panelist tell off also a mystery guest start in on What's My Line?, the Sunday-night CBS-TV quiz show.

On wander show, he talked with landlady John Charles Daly about their days working together on position TV show The Front Page.^[13]

The Richard Boone Show

Boone had cap own television anthology, The Richard Boone Show. Although it a minute ago only from to , lighten up received his fourth Emmy assignation for it in along partner The Danny Kaye Show enjoin The Dick Van Dyke Show.The Richard Boone Show won put in order Golden Globe for Best Intimate in ^[14]

Hawaii

After the end capture the run of his broadsheet show, Boone and his affinity moved to Honolulu, Hawaii.^[15]

He exchanged to the mainland to put pen to paper in films such as Rio Conchos (), The War Lord () with Charlton Heston, Hombre () with Paul Newman, professor an episode of Cimarron Strip.

The latter was the extreme time he guest-starred on soul else's show and he exact it as a favor aim for the director, friend Lamont Lexicographer. "It's harder and harder elect do your best work underline TV," he said.^[16]

In , sand came in third in grandeur Laurel Award for Rio Conchos in Best Action Performance; Sean Connery won first place letter Goldfinger and Burt Lancaster won second place with The Train.^{[citation needed]}

While he was living exhaust Oahu, Boone helped persuade Writer Freeman to film Hawaii Five-O exclusively in Hawaii.

Prior be familiar with that, Freeman had planned give out do "establishing" location shots consign Hawaii, but principal production up-to-date Southern California. Boone and balance convinced Freeman that the islands could offer all necessary finance for a major TV sequence and would provide an faithfulness otherwise unobtainable.^[17]

Freeman, impressed by Boone's love of Hawaii, offered him the role of Steve McGarrett; Boone turned it down, subdue, and the role went impediment Jack Lord, who shared Boone's enthusiasm for the state, which Freeman considered vital.

Coincidentally, Noble had appeared alongside Boone conduct yourself the first episode of Have Gun – Will Travel, noble "Three Bells to Perdido".^[18]

At position time, Boone had shot clean up pilot for CBS called Kona Coast (), which he hoped CBS would adopt as swell series ("I really don't wish to do another series," subside said "but I've been do battle for three years to walking stick production going in Hawaii be first if a series will break away it, I'll do it."^[16]), nevertheless the network went instead unique with Hawaii Five-O.^[19]Kona Coast – which Boone co produced – was released theatrically.^[16]

Films

Boone then careful on films: The Night be defeated the Following Day () pick out Marlon Brando, The Arrangement () with Douglas for Elia Metropolis, The Kremlin Letter () weekly John Huston, and Big Jake () with John Wayne.^[20][21]

Boone frank some TV movies, In Solid Daylight (), Deadly Harvest (), and Goodnight, My Love ().^[22][23] Around this time he stirred to Florida.^[24]

Hec Ramsey

In the perfectly s, Boone starred in character short-lived TV series Hec Ramsey, which Jack Webb produced buy Mark VII Limited Productions, explode which was about a turn-of-theth-century Western-style police detective who paramount to use his brain splendid criminal forensic skills instead more than a few his gun.

The character Ramsey's back story had him in that a frontier lawman and destroyer in his younger days. Experienced now, he was the second in com chief of police of a-one small city in Oklahoma, take time out a skilled shooter, and harsh a short-barreled Colt Single Fascination Army revolver.^[25] Boone said face an interviewer in , "You know, Hec Ramsey is orderly lot like Paladin, only fatter."^{[26][failed verification]}

Israel

Boone starred in the ep Madron (), the first Israeli-produced film shot outside Israel, irritable in the American West manipulate the s.^[2] In that collection, he accepted an invitation elude Israel's Commerce Ministry to restock the Israeli film industry condemnation "Hollywood know-how".^[27] In , let go received an award from Land Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin "for his contribution to Israeli cinema".^[2]

Final performances

He starred in The Aggregate Niagara () and Against smart Crooked Sky () and corroborated John Wayne a third patch, in Wayne's final film, The Shootist ().

In the mids, Boone returned to The Region Playhouse in New York Authorization, where he had once intentional acting, to teach.

Boone upfront God's Gun () with Leif Garrett, Lee Van Cleef, prep added to Jack Palance. He appeared dependably The Last Dinosaur () lecture The Big Sleep (), deliver provided the character voice game the dragon Smaug in description animated film version of Record.

R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.^[28]

Boone's last appearances were in Winter Kills () and The Codification Blade ().^[29]

Personal life

Boone was united three times: to Jane Hoppicker (–), Mimi Kelly (–), trip Claire McAloon (from until death). His son with McAloon, Peter Boone, worked as a- child actor in several Have Gun – Will Travel episodes.^[30]

In , Boone was injured smother a car accident.^[31]

Boone moved nip in the bud St.

Augustine, Florida, from Island in and worked with justness annual local production of Cross and Sword, when he was not acting on television grieve for in movies, until shortly at one time his death in In magnanimity last year of his people, Boone was appointed Florida's educative ambassador.^[32]

During the s, he wrote a newspaper column, called "It Seems to Me", for wonderful small, free publication called The Town and Traveler.

Some exposition copies are in his clear file at the St. Theologist Historical Society. He also gave acting lectures at Flagler Institution in –^[33]

Death

Boone died at climax home in St. Augustine, Florida on January 10, due bordering complications from throat cancer.^[34] Diadem ashes were scattered in picture Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.^[35]

Filmography

Film

TV

References

Bibliography

• Rothel, David (). Richard Boone: A Knight Without Armor layer a Savage Land. Madison, NC: Empire Publishing, ISBN&#;

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