Biographie

He died during the filming of the Dumont TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950) and was replaced by Lee Bowman as the famous sleuth.

Was an All-American soccer player in his college years at Brown University.

Dark-haired American leading man, briefly popular in the late 1940s. The son of a distinguished lawyer and President of the Rhode Island Bar Association, he graduated from Brown University and worked as a journalist before making his Broadway debut in 1945. Died aged 35, apparently from a heart attack.

According to Laura Wagner in her article on Richard in the summer 2014 issue of Films of the Golden Age, his final years were spent in a relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre. They appeared together on TV in episodes of "Studio One". Following Hart's death, she married composer Leonard Bernstein.

It has been reported that he had a relationship with Phyllis Eileen Buswell following his estrangement from second wife, actress Louise Valery, a relationship that bore a son, Richard Lee Hart, on September 2, 1947.