page_title: Richard Boone
section_title: Have Gun – Will Travel
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Boone / Acting career / Have Gun – Will Travel
caption_attribution_description: English: John Wayne and Richard Boone at the John Wayne Theatre for the world premiere of the film Big Jake at Knott's Berry Farm in 1971.
context_page_description: Richard Allen Boone 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.
context_section_description: Boone's next television series, Have Gun – Will Travel, made him a national star because of his role as Paladin, the intelligent and sophisticated, but tough, gun-for-hire in the late 19th-century American West. The show had first been offered to actor Randolph Scott, who turned it down and gave the script to Boone while they were making the film Ten Wanted Men. The show ran from 1957–63, with Boone receiving two more Emmy nominations, in 1959 and 1960.  Have Gun - Will Travel, replete with literary references by Paladin, may have been the most literate and sophisticated western in television history.
  During the show's run, Boone appeared on Broadway in 1959, starring as Abraham Lincoln in “The Rivalry”. It ran for 81 performances.
  He occasionally did other acting appearances such as episodes of Playhouse 90 and The United States Steel Hour and TV movie The Right Man (1960). He had a cameo as Sam Houston in The Alamo (1960), a starring role in A Thunder of Drums (1961) and narrated a TV version of John Brown's Body.
  Boone was an occasional guest panelist and also a mystery guest on What's My Line?, the Sunday night CBS-TV quiz show. On that show, he talked with host John Charles Daly about their days working together on the TV show The Front Page. 
  In 1963 he was injured in a car accident.
caption: John Wayne and Boone at premier of Big Jake, 1971
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