Richard Boone
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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
Credits
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
as Voice of Minister (voice) (uncredited)
Hombre (1967)
as Cicero Grimes
The Alamo (1960)
as Gen. Sam Houston
The Robe (1953)
as Pontius Pilate
Away All Boats (1956)
as Lieut. Fraser
The Shootist (1976)
as Mike Sweeney
The Hobbit (1977)
as Smaug (voice)
Big Jake (1971)
as John Fain
Winter Kills (1979)
as Keifitz
The Bushido Blade (1981)
as Matthew Perry
Way of a Gaucho (1952)
as Major Salinas
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
as Capt. Hermann Aldinger
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
as Thomas Rhys
Star in the Dust (1956)
as Sam Hall
The War Lord (1965)
as Bors
Kangaroo (1952)
as John W. Gamble
The Big Knife (1955)
as Narrator (Voice)
Rio Conchos (1964)
as Lassiter
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
as Krofta
Halls of Montezuma (1951)
as Lt. Col. Gilfillan
City of Bad Men (1953)
as John Ringo
The Big Sleep (1978)
as Lash Cansino
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
as Wick Campbell
Lizzie (1957)
as Dr. Neal Wright
Battle Stations (1956)
as The Captain
Man Without a Star (1955)
as Steve Miles
The Arrangement (1969)
as Sam Arness
Against a Crooked Sky (1975)
as Russian
The Last Dinosaur (1977)
as Masten Thrust Jr.
God's Gun (1976)
as The Sheriff
The Raid (1954)
as Capt. Lionel Foster
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
as Ward
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
as Richard 'Dick' Dryer
The Garment Jungle (1957)
as Artie Ravidge
I Bury the Living (1958)
as Robert Kraft
The Siege at Red River (1954)
as Brett Manning
The Tall T (1957)
as Frank Usher
The Century Turns (1972)
as Hec Ramsey
In Broad Daylight (1971)
as Tony Chappel
Kona Coast (1968)
as Capt. Sam Moran
Madron (1970)
as Madron
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
as Leer
A Thunder of Drums (1961)
as Capt. Stephen Maddocks
Deadly Harvest (1972)
as Anton Solca
Goodnight, My Love (1972)
as Francis Hogan
Dragnet (1954)
as Capt .James E. Hamilton
John Wayne's 'The Alamo' (1992)
as Sam Houston
Vicki (1953)
as Lt. Ed Cornell
Robbers' Roost (1955)
as Hank Hays
The Right Man (1960)
as Abraham Lincoln
The Great Niagara (1974)
as Aaron Grant
Call Me Mister (1951)
as Mess Sergeant
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On (2001)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Return of the Texan (1952)
as Rod Murray