Running for six years on television after many years on radio Have Gun Will Travel was one of the most popular westerns ever on television. Richard Boone never got a role quite the equal of it in his distinguished career.
We never learned his real name, he was simply Paladin and on his business card was the chess symbol of the knight. His services didn't come cheap, but if you had a problem he'd definitely take care of it. And he was particular about who he worked for.
He had to charge dear because Boone as Paladin liked to live high on the hog in San Francisco. I'm sure the education he had which he showed off when not on the job didn't come cheap and he was as comfortable in a Nob Hill drawing room as out on the trail.
On the job he was skilled with all kinds of weapons, a deadly rife shot, a fast draw with a colt, and in a pinch his derringer got him out of a few bad situations. And he could make his point with language that you didn't hear on Nob Hill.
I've always thought the modern day equivalent of Have Gun - Will Travel was Edward Woodward's famed Equalizer series from the Eighties. If Richard Boone had lived until then, I'll bet he would have seen the resemblance.
Boone was an incredible actor as good at playing the cowboy hero in Have Gun - Will Travel as playing some of the nastiest villains in film such as in Big Jake or Hombre. He was loquacious in San Francisco or laconic on the trail as the situation called for it.
Have Gun - Will Travel came over from radio where John Dehner starred as Paladin. But for me Richard Boone got his career role from this show. Would that we all could send a wire to Paladin and have all our problems solved.
We never learned his real name, he was simply Paladin and on his business card was the chess symbol of the knight. His services didn't come cheap, but if you had a problem he'd definitely take care of it. And he was particular about who he worked for.
He had to charge dear because Boone as Paladin liked to live high on the hog in San Francisco. I'm sure the education he had which he showed off when not on the job didn't come cheap and he was as comfortable in a Nob Hill drawing room as out on the trail.
On the job he was skilled with all kinds of weapons, a deadly rife shot, a fast draw with a colt, and in a pinch his derringer got him out of a few bad situations. And he could make his point with language that you didn't hear on Nob Hill.
I've always thought the modern day equivalent of Have Gun - Will Travel was Edward Woodward's famed Equalizer series from the Eighties. If Richard Boone had lived until then, I'll bet he would have seen the resemblance.
Boone was an incredible actor as good at playing the cowboy hero in Have Gun - Will Travel as playing some of the nastiest villains in film such as in Big Jake or Hombre. He was loquacious in San Francisco or laconic on the trail as the situation called for it.
Have Gun - Will Travel came over from radio where John Dehner starred as Paladin. But for me Richard Boone got his career role from this show. Would that we all could send a wire to Paladin and have all our problems solved.