No One Believed These Richard Boone Stories! Until They Watched This!
He was the highest-paid man on television, playing a gunfighter who quoted Shakespeare, played chess, and ate gourmet French food in 1870s San Francisco. Gene Roddenberry—the man who created Star Trek—got his start writing scripts for him. Then at the peak of his fame, he walked away. Left Hollywood for Hawaii. Turned down the lead role in Hawaii Five-O. Moved to Florida. Smoked up to 100 cigarettes a day. And died of throat cancer at 63—largely forgotten by the industry he’d once dominated.
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