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Richard Allen Boone (June 18 1917 – January 10 1981) was an American actor who starred in over fifty films.

Boone was born in Los Angeles, California. He worked in several odd jobs, including boxing and painting, before serving in World War II in the US Navy. He later studied acting in New York, and in 1950, Boone made his screen debut as a Marine in Halls of Montezuma. He starred in three movies with John Wayne: The Alamo
as Sam Houston, Big Jake and The Shootist
.

From 1954 to 1956, Richard Boone starred in The Medic television show, receiving an Emmy nomination for Best Actor Starring in a Regular Series in 1955.

However, it was his second show that Boone became a national star with his Paladin character in Have Gun, Will Travel. The show ran from 1957 to 1963, with Boone receiving two more Emmy nominations in 1959 and 1960. During the 1960s Boone also appeared regularly on other television programs. For example, he did stints as both a guest panelist and as one of the What's My Line? Mystery Guests on the popular Sunday Night CBS-TV quiz show.

After Have Gun, Will Travel, Boone had his own anthology television show called The Richard Boone Show. Even though it only aired from 1963 to 1964, he received his fourth Emmy nomination in 1964. Along with The Danny Kaye
Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Richard Boone Show won a Golden Globe for Best Show in 1964.

He continued to star in many more movies, commonly as villains, with his pock-marked face, tobacco-fuelled bass voice and sullen demeanor a gift to directors of his most notable films, The Raid (1954), Man Without a Star (1955 King Vidor), The Tall T
(1957 Budd Boetticher), The Alamo (1960 John Wayne), The War Lord
(1965 Franklin Schaffner), Hombre
(1967 Martin Ritt), The Arrangement (1968 Elia Kazan) and The Shootist
(1976 Don Seigel). In 1965, he won the third place Laurel Award for Action Performance (Sean Connery won first place with Goldfinger
and Burt Lancaster won second place with The Train).

In his final role, he played Commodore Matthew Perry in Bushido Blade. He died soon afterward of throat cancer in St. Augustine, Florida

Filmography

Movies

The Bushido Blade
(1981)
Winter Kills
(1979)
The Big Sleep (1978)
The Shootist
(1976)
Diamante Lobo (1976)
Against a Crooked Sky (1975)
Big Jake (1971)
Madron (1970)
The Kremlin Letter
(1970)
The Arrangement (1969)
The Night of the Following Day (1968)
Kona Coast (1968)
Hombre
(1967)
The War Lord
(1965)
Rio Conchos (1964)
A Thunder of Drums (1961)
The Alamo
(1960)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
I Bury the Living (1958)
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957)
The Garment Jungle (1957)
Lizzie (1957)
The Tall T
(1957)
Away All Boats (1956)
Star in the Dust (1956)
Battle Stations (1956)
The Big Knife
(1955)
Robbers' Roost (1955)
Man Without a Star (1955)
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
Dragnet (1954)
The Raid (1954)
The Siege at Red River (1954)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
City of Bad Men (1953)
The Robe
(1953)
Vicki
(1953)
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Pony Soldier (1952)
Way of a Gaucho (1952)
Kangaroo (1952)
Return of the Texan (1952)
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
(1951)
Call Me Mister (1951)
Halls of Montezuma (1951)

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