Robert Boon

Robert Boon (October 26, 1916 – January 13, 2015) was a Dutch-born American film, television, and theater actor. His film credits included The Tanks Are Coming in 1951 and Queen of Blood in 1966. Boon's television credits included on The Twilight Zone episodes Deaths-Head Revisited in 1961 and Mute in 1963.

Boon was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, on October 26, 1916. During World War II, Boon volunteered to serve a Dutch East Indies oil battalion and was sent to the United States for military training. Boon was transferred to Australia, where he was enlisted to the Australian Army. He took part in the Borneo campaign in May 1945, the last major Allied invasion in the South West Pacific Area during World War II. Following the defeat of Japan, Boon was stationed in Java and Sumatra before returning to the Netherlands.

Boon first became interested in theater and acting as a potential career while studying in post-war Amsterdam. However, Boon first took a position with Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM), a former subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, for financial reasons. BPM sent him to work at its oil facilities in Curaçao. Robert Boon soon joined the Little Theatre, a theater company in Curaçao, and worked part-time as an actor and writer one of the island's radio stations.

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