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