Thomas Andrew Boone (1917 - 1981)

Born 18 Jun 1917 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Claire (McAloon) Boone — married 27 Apr 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States

Died 10 Jan 1981 at age 63 in Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida, United States

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Richard Allen Boone, an American actor, who was notable for his roles in Westerns and for the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel, Richard starred in over 50 films. He was also a cousin of Pat Boone, singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality,

Biography

Thomas Boone is Notable.

petty officer first class Richard Allen Boone was born 18 Jun 1917, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. His parents were Kirk Etna Boone and Cecile Lillian Beckerman. He married Jane Hellen Hopper 23 Dec 1937, in Los Angeles County, California. He seconds married Valerie "Mimi" Raymond Kelly 1 Dec 1949, in Manhattan, New York City, New York. He third married Mary Claire McAloon, 27 Apr 1951, in Los Angeles County, California. PO1 Richard Allen Boone passed away 10 Jan 1981, in Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida, at the age of 63. He was Cremated, and his ashes were scattered in Hawaii.^[1][2][3]

Mr.Boone is survived by his wife, Claire, a former ballerina he married in 1951; a son, Peter; a grandson; and a sister, Mrs. Don Brown of Long Beach, Calif.

"Richard Boon's ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.^[4]

"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 ordnanceman, aircrewman, and tail gunner on Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, and ended his service with the rank of petty officer first class."^[5][6]

Birth

Name Richard Allen Boone

Sex Male

Father's Name Kirk Etna Boone

Father's Age 24

Father's Birth Year (Estimated) 1893

Father's Birthplace California

Mother's Name Cecile Beckerman Boone

Mother's Age 21

Mother's Birth Year (Estimated) 1896

Mother's Birthplace New York

Event Type Birth

Event Date 18 Jun 1917

Event Place Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States

Event Place (Original) Los Angeles^[7][8]

Stanford University Yearbook 1935

Name Richard A Boone

Estimated Age 20

Birth Year abt 1915

Yearbook Date 1935

School Stanford University

School Location Palo Alto, California, USA

Grade Completed Faculty^[9][10]

WW2 Draft

Name Richard Allen Boone

Gender Male

Race White

Age 23

Relationship to Draftee Self (Head)

Birth Date 18 Jun 1917

Birth Place Los Angeles, California, USA

Residence Place Carmel, Monterey, California, USA

Registration Date 16 Oct 1940

Registration Place Carmel, Monterey, California, USA

Employer None

Height 6 2

Weight 180

Complexion Light

Hair Color Brown

Eye Color Blue

Next of Kin Jane Hopper Boone^[11][12][13]

US World War II Navy Muster Rolls

Name Richard Allen Boone

Ship, Station or Activity Prince William

Ship Number or Designation CVE-31

Muster Date 15 Jun 1943^[14][15]

Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File

Name Richard A Boone

Gender Male

Birth Date 18 Jun 1917

Death Date 10 Jan 1981

SSN 564xxxxxx

Enlistment Branch NAVY

Enlistment Date 26 May 1942

Discharge Date 20 Dec 1945

Page number 1^[16][17][18]

Marriages

Jane H. Hopper (m. 1937; div. 1940)

Mimi Kelly (m. 1949; div. 1950)

Claire McAloon (m. 1951; his death 1981)^[19]

His last marriage was to Claire McAloon for 30 years, from 1951 to 1981 at the time of his death. His son with Claire McAloon, Peter Boone, worked as a child actor in several of his father's Have Gun – Will Travel television shows.^[20]

Richard is 6th cousin of singer and actor, Pat Boone, Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 top-40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films.

He was also a 6th cousin, twice removed, of Pat’s granddaughter, actress Tessa Ferrer.

Biography From FAG

Actor. He is best remembered for his role of 'Paladin', in the television series, "Have Gun, Will Travel" (1957 to 1963). He attended college, boxed, painted and worked in an oil field before entering the Navy during World War II. After the war, he used his GI Bill to study acting at the Actor's Studio in New York. He began on Broadway, in the play "Medea," and in 1950, he would sign a movie contract with Twentieth Century Fox. His first movie was "Halls of Montezuma" (1950), playing a marine. Tall, lean and craggy, he was an instant pick for war and western movies.

He later got to play softer roles, playing Pontius Pilate in "The Robe" (1953) and the role of 'Dr. Styner' in the television series, "Medic" (1954). His greatest success came with the casting as 'Paladin' (no first name ever mentioned) in the television series, "Have Gun, Will Travel" (1957), in which he played a cultured gunman for hire. It became immediately popular and made him a star.

During this time, he continued to act in movies, playing General Sam Houston in "The Alamo" (1960), and an Army Captain in "A Thunder of Drums" (1961). When "Have Gun, Will Travel" ended in 1963, he hosted a dramatic anthology television series entitled "The Richard Boone Show" (1963) but it was not successful and was cancelled. Moving to Hawaii, he continued to make a few movies, including "Rio Conchos" (1964), but he considered his career in a slump.

After living in Hawaii for seven years, he moved to St. Augustine, Florida, and came back to the screen, appearing in 1972 in the television series, "Heck Ramsey" (1972-1973), playing an old frontier sheriff to critical acclaim, but it did not develop a strong audience and lasted only two seasons. His last role was playing Commodore Matthew Perry, in "The Bushido Blade" (1981).

Married three times, he died of throat cancer in 1981 in St. Augustine.

Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson

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5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Boone#Films
6. ↑ "Shadow box". navy.togetherweserved.com.
7. ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL7-FMZH : Sun Oct 15 14:41:58 UTC 2023), Entry for Richard Allen Boone and Kirk Etna Boone, 18 Jun 1917.
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12. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/18396415:2238?ssrc=pt&tid=162503592&pid=242219664196
13. ↑ "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGFS-C365 : Tue Nov 28 21:11:43 UTC 2023), Entry for Richard Allen Boone and Jane Hopper Boone, 16 October 1940.
14. ↑ National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 01/01/1939 - 01/01/1949; Record Group: 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007; Series ARC ID: 594996; Series MLR Number: A1 135
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16. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
17. ↑ Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
18. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3415223:2441
19. ↑ "Mosey Down to Western Film Festival". The Baltimore Sun. February 20, 2000. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
20. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1776081/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Peter's Bio

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