Oral history interview with Richard Allen Boone, 1959
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- Name
- Boone, Richard Allen (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Richard Allen Boone, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Richard Allen Boone, 1959
- Abstract
- 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 ser ies "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Actors; Motion pictures; Television; Theater; Boone, Richard Allen
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Note (Biographical)
- Actor; interviewee b. 1917, d. 1981
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 12814593
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-wn2g-pm82
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.