Richard Boone Net Worth

Richard Boone's Quotes

• [about John Wayne] He was an heroic figure and a hero. He stood up for causes when they weren't popular at all and he never hesitated to stand up and get counted, he was that kind of a person.
• You have to use the power you acquire to protect the integrity of what you're doing. And to do that, you have to be prepared to go all the way. If you have the strength to do that, you're in pretty good shape.
• Have I changed? Maybe success was necessary for me. I believe that unless I achieved it I would be a pretty miserable beast. Maybe I am a miserable beast. But now that I've got success, in some measure, I can decide what I want - and what I want, in a word, is to do the best work I can under the best possible conditions.
• [on Have Gun - Will Travel (1957)] It was a ridiculous thing, but I don't ever have to worry about money. As a result of playing Paladin, I have what is known to actors as a lot of go-to-hell money.
• It's harder and harder to do your best work on TV. (1967)

Interesting Facts about Richard Boone

1. Uncle of Randy Boone
2. Cousin of Nick Todd.
3. On a December 14, 1957, episode of Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Boone found himself stripped to the waist by Apaches and bound spreadagle-style between four stakes driven into the ground. So vivid was this scene that leading men in other TV westerns soon found themselves in similar circumstances, most notably Robert Horton in Wagon Train (1957) Ralph Taeger in Hondo (1967) and Peter Brown and William Smith in Laredo (1965).
4. He directed the final scenes of The Night of the Following Day (1969) at the insistence of star Marlon Brando, as Brando could no longer tolerate what he considered the incompetence of director Hubert Cornfield. The film is generally considered the nadir of Brando's career, though it didn't hurt Boone, who was cast as the heavy.
5. According to Joseph McBride's "Searching for John Ford" (St. Martin's Press, 2001 - ISBN 0312242328), director John Ford was urged to cast Boone and Anthony Quinn as the Little Wolf and Dull Knife characters in Cheyenne Autumn (1964), as both had Native American blood. Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland, who were of Mexican descent, were cast instead.
6. At the end of his life, he taught acting classes at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.
7. In the last year of his life he was appointed Florida's cultural ambassador.
8. Turned down Jack Lord's role in Hawaii Five-O (1968).
9. Enjoyed weightlifting.
10. Turned down Robert Shaw's role in The Sting (1973).
11. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, George Boone, was a brother of pioneers Daniel Boone and Squire Boone.
12. He is a sixth cousin of singer and actor Pat Boone (Richard's five times great-grandparents, Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, were also Pat Boone's five time great-grandparents).
13. Taught acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City from 1974-75. He was temporarily replacing Sanford Meisner, who had become stricken with throat cancer.
14. Served in the US Navy during World War II.
15. He was cast in the role of "Old Lodge Skins" in Little Big Man (1970), but a real Native American, Chief Dan George, ended up playing the part.
16. Richard's only child, Peter Boone, from his third wife, Claire McAloon, is named after Richard's great-great grandfather.
17. He was an auto-racing fan.
18. His father was of English, Scottish, German, and Welsh descent, and his maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Richard was very proud of his Jewish heritage, and starred in the first western to be filmed in Israel, His Name Was Madron (1970). He received an award from Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1979 for his contribution to Israeli cinema.
19. He was a chain smoker.
20. His height was sometimes given as 6'2", although he himself gave his height as 6'0".