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Petty officer first class. Battles/wars. World War II. 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, including his starring role in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel .
Jan 12, 1981 · Richard Boone, the actor best known for his role as the hired gun Paladin in the ''Have Gun Will Travel'' television series, is dead at the age of 63. A spokesman at Craig Funeral Home in St ...
Richard was a college student, boxer, painter and oil-field laborer before ending up in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he used the G.I. Bill to study acting with the Actor's Studio in New York. Serious and methodical, Boone debuted on Broadway in the play "Medea". Other plays followed, as did occasional TV work.
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Richard Boone. Actor: Have Gun - Will Travel. Richard Allen Boone was born in Los Angeles, California, to Cecile Lillian (Beckerman) and Kirk Etna Boone, a wealthy corporate lawyer. His maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, while his father was descended from a brother of frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Squire Boone. Richard was a college student, boxer, painter and oil-field ...
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- January 10, 1981
Jan 10, 2024 · Born Richard Allen Boone on June 18, 1917 in Los Angeles, he felt the pull towards being an artist — specifically a painter — which went against the wishes of his father, a lawyer.
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May 23, 2022 · One of them was actor Richard Boone, who from 1957 to 1963 captured the imagination of viewers with his portrayal of Paladin in the Western Have Gun, Will Travel. “There is no question that most ...
Richard Boone American actor and director who was best known for his work on the television series Have Gun—Will Travel (1957–63). Boone attended Stanford University and later served in the navy during World War II. He subsequently pursued an acting career, and in 1947 he made his Broadway debut,
