
Clyde Randy Boone (born January 17, 1942)
is an American actor and singer best known for his role in the series
''The Virginian'' as
Randy Benton, a young ranch hand who played guitar and sang.
Early life
Boone was born in
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Fayetteville ( , ) is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.
Fayetteville has received the All-Ameri ...
, and enrolled at
North Carolina State College as a mathematics major. He began performing as a folk singer at a bar and eventually dropped out of school to play guitar and sing. That decision led to 18 months of traveling around the United States, primarily by hitchhiking. He used his musical talents to barter, with his performances providing meals and sleeping quarters. He entered contests to win additional money.
Career
Boone started his career in the 1962–1963 TV series
''It's a Man's World'' as Vern Hodges,
a talented guitarist from Boone's native North Carolina.
After playing guitar and singing in ''The Virginian'' and starring as a country singer in the 1966 film ''Country Boy'', he played Francis Wilde in Western series ''
Cimarron Strip'' along with
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor, known for his lengthy career in film and television. Whitman was born in San Francisco and raised in New York until the age of 12, when his family relocated to ...
.
Filmography (selection)
Film
* 1969: ''Backtrack!''
* 1973: ''
Terminal Island''
* 1975: ''
Dr. Minx''
* 1987: ''
The Wild Pair''
TV
* 1962–1963: ''
It's a Man's World''
* 1963: ''
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' (Season 1 Episode 28: "Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans") as Pete Tanner
* 1963: ''Amazing Stories''
* 1963 ''
Wagon Train
''Wagon Train'' is an American Western television series that aired for eight seasons, first on the NBC television network (1957–1962) and then on ABC (1962–1965). ''Wagon Train'' debuted on September 18, 1957, and reached the top of the ...
'', (2 episodes) Noah Bancroft, David Garner
* 1963 ''
The Twilight Zone
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology series, anthology television series created by Rod Serling in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described ...
'' S5 E10 "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms"
* 1964: ''
The Fugitive''
* 1964–1966: ''
The Virginian''
* 1966 ''
Combat!''
* 1966: ''
Bonanza
''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on ...
'' S8 E10 Ballad Of The Ponderosa
* 1967–1968: ''
Cimarron Strip''
* 1973: ''
Emergency!''
* 1974: ''
Kolchak: The Night Stalker''
* 1975: ''
Kung Fu
Chinese martial arts, commonly referred to with umbrella terms Kung fu (term), kung fu (; ), kuoshu () or wushu (sport), wushu (), are Styles of Chinese martial arts, multiple fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in Greater Ch ...
''
* 1975: ''
Gunsmoke
''Gunsmoke'' is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central charact ...
''
* 1985: ''
Highway to Heaven''
References
External links
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1942 births
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male Western (genre) film actors
Western (genre) television actors
Living people