Oral history interview with Richard Allen Boone, 1959

Biographical Note

Actor; interviewee b. 1917, d. 1981

Scope and Contents

Early life in California; acting school on GI Bill, 1945; Neighborhood Playhouse; Actors' Studio; beginning of television career, 1948; movie career: ideas on acting in movies and theater; role in "Have Gun Will Travel" television series; reminiscences of John Gielgud, Lee Strasburg, Elia Kazan. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Boone, Richard Allen--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Television.
• Theater.