Career
His collaboration with dramatist Clifford Odets, "The Richard Boone Show" (1963-1964) was the only repertory company on television, in which a resident cast of actors played different roles in a television play every week. Houghton graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1933, where he was known as Architecture Houghton. Houghton died in Los Los Angeles
He was suffering with both emphysema and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis .