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Brendon Boone

Norman Brendon Boone Jr. is an American actor and writer.

Born in Meridian, Mississippi,^[1] Boone is the son of Rev. Norman Boone^[2] and Leola Speed Boone.^[3] His father was a pastor in the United Methodist Church.^[4] Boone was a student at Columbia High School^[2] before he graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi. He also had dramatic training at Rollins College for a year.^[5]

On television, Boone portrayed Chief on Garrison's Gorillas^[6] and Roman Bedford on Rawhide. He also appeared on other programs, including Gunsmoke; The Red Skelton Show; Bonanza; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Virginian, and other series.^[2] He also won a four-day trip to Italy on an episode of The Dating Game.^[5] Films in which he appeared include The Big Game (1972), Death Race (1973), and The Hanged Man (1974).^[7] On stage, he portrayed Tommy in TenderloininOceanside, California.^[8]

Boone wrote a novel, Preacher and Co, and its accompanying screenplay, with a plot focusing on "love, brotherhood, loyalty and redemption".^[3]

Boone was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Actor in a Television Series in 1968.^[9] He won the Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow Best Young Actor in a Television Series award for 1967–1968 for his work on Garrison's Gorillas.^[2]

Boone married Shirley Errington on May 1, 1971, in Jackson, Mississippi,^[4] and they had a son.^[2] In 1999, he married Karen Jensen.^{[citation needed]}