Clyde Randall Boone, known as Randy Boone (born January 17, 1942), is a former actor who co-starred in two of the three 90-minute westerns telecast during the 1960s on the national television networks, NBC's The Virginian and CBS's Cimarron Strip.Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., pp. 164, 886–887 He also guest starred three times on the third 90-minute western, Wagon Train, at the time on ABC. At twenty, Boone co-starred in his first acting role as Vern Hodges in the 1962–1963 NBC comedy/drama It's a Man's World, based on the activities of four young men living on a houseboat on the Ohio River.McNeil, Total Television, pp. 415–416

A cousin of singer-actor Pat Boone (born 1934) and a nephew of actor Richard Boone (1917–1981), star of the former CBS series Have Gun, Will Travel western, the three claim ancestry to the American frontiersman Daniel Boone, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania. Randy Boone, however, did not appear in Fess Parker's long-running Daniel Boone series on NBC. Randy Boone was born in Fayetteville in Cumberland County in eastern North Carolina. Daniel Boone had lived in the Yadkin River section of North Carolina prior to settling Kentucky in the 1770s. In
1960, Boone entered North Carolina State University at Raleigh but dropped out to tour the country and play his guitar, spending a lot of time in his early adulthood in coffeehouses.