Richard Boone

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…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Ocean's Eleven (1960) — Voice of Minister (voice) (uncredited)
2. The Alamo (1960) — Gen. Sam Houston
3. The Shootist (1976) — Mike Sweeney
4. The Hobbit (1977) — Smaug (voice)
5. The Robe (1953) — Pontius Pilate
6. Big Jake (1971) — John Fain
7. Hombre (1967) — Cicero Grimes
8. The Tall T (1957) — Frank Usher
9. Man Without a Star (1955) — Steve Miles
10. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) — Capt. Hermann Aldinger
11. The Big Sleep (1978) — Lash Cansino
12. The Big Knife (1955) — Narrator (Voice)
13. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
14. The War Lord (1965) — Bors
15. I Bury the Living (1958) — Robert Kraft
16. The Arrangement (1969) — Sam Arness
17. Winter Kills (1979) — Keifitz
18. Rio Conchos (1964) — Lassiter
19. The Night of the Following Day (1969) — Leer
20. The Kremlin Letter (1970) — Ward
21. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Paladin
22. Halls of Montezuma (1951) — Lt. Col. Gilfillan
23. God's Gun (1976) — The Sheriff
24. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) — Thomas Rhys
25. The Raid (1954) — Capt. Lionel Foster
26. Man on a Tightrope (1953) — Krofta
27. Ten Wanted Men (1955) — Wick Campbell
28. What's My Line? (1950) — Self - Mystery Guest
29. The Garment Jungle (1957) — Artie Ravidge
30. A Thunder of Drums (1961) — Capt. Stephen Maddocks
31. Dragnet (1954) — Capt .James E. Hamilton
32. Vicki (1953) — Lt. Ed Cornell
33. Away All Boats (1956) — Lieut. Fraser
34. Star in the Dust (1956) — Sam Hall
35. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
36. Way of a Gaucho (1952) — Major Salinas
37. The Last Dinosaur (1977) — Masten Thrust Jr.
38. Against a Crooked Sky (1975) — Russian
39. Lizzie (1957) — Dr. Neal Wright
40. Robbers' Roost (1955) — Hank Hays

Directed

1. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Director
2. The Richard Boone Show (1963) — Director