Richard Boone (actor)

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Richard Boone (right) with John Wayne at the world premiere of Big Jake  (1971)

Richard Allen Boone (born June 18, 1917 in Los Angeles , † January 10, 1981 in St. Augustine , Florida ) was an American actor who played mainly in westerns.

Life

Boone was a direct descendant of a brother of the trapper Daniel Boone and the son of a wealthy corporate lawyer. Boone left Stanford University without a degree and instead made his way as an oil worker, bartender, painter, and writer. In 1941 he enlisted in the US Navy and served on three ships at the front in the South Pacific. After the war, he took acting classes at the Actors Studio in New York and made his Broadway debut in 1947 in Medea (followed by Macbeth in 1948 and The Man in 1950). In 1950 he made his cinema debut in Okinawa ( Halls of Montezuma ), where he played a marine . From 1954 to 1956 he was Dr. Konrad Styner the star of the medical series "Medic" (the first television series that realistically showed everyday medical practice), for which he was nominated for an Emmy in 1955 . Two more Emmy nominations (1959, 1960) followed for his role as the gunslinger "Paladin" in the western series " Have Gun - Will Travel ", which made him famous across the country. It ran from 1957 to 1963. Even after that he was regularly on television, in 1963/64 even with his own "Richard Boone Show", which in 1964 earned him a Golden Globe . But he was best known as the pockmarked, hard-nosed villain in westerns. His best-known were The Raid (1954 by Hugo Fregonese), Man Without a Star (1955 by King Vidor ), Um Kopf und Kragen (1957, by Budd Boetticher ), The Alamo (1960, by and with John Wayne , Boone played Sam in it Houston ), The War Lord (1965 by Franklin J. Schaffner ), He was called Hombre (1967 by Martin Ritt ) and The Shootist (1976 by Don Siegel as an opponent of John Wayne).

In the 1970s he played the detective Hec Ramsey in the TV series of the same name from 1972 and began giving acting classes at his old school in New York. He made his last film in 1981 ( The Bushido Blade , which is about the hunt for a stolen samurai sword).

Boone was married three times and had a son. He died of throat cancer in Florida . His ashes were scattered in the ocean near Hawaii.

Filmography (selection)

Broadway

  • 1947-1948: Medea
  • 1950: The Man
  • 1959: The Rivalry

Awards

  • 1955: Emmy nomination for Medic
  • 1959: Emmy nomination for Have Gun - Will Travel
  • 1960: Emmy nomination for Have Gun - Will Travel
  • 1964: Golden Globe Award nomination for The Richard Boone Show
  • 1964: Emmy nomination for The Richard Boone Show

literature

  • Gregor Hauser, Peter L. Stadlbaur: Prairie bandits: The gripping world of B-Westerns . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2018, ISBN 978-3-932053-98-6 . Pp. 229-231.

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personal data
SURNAME Boone, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boone, Richard Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1981
Place of death St. Augustine , Florida