- Was an All-American soccer player in his college years at Brown University.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Winner of the 1945 Theatre World Award for his Broadway performance in "Dark of the Moon".
- Once made a government propaganda film with director Elia Kazan.
- Had three children by marriage: a son, Christopher Comstock Hart Rawson, with first wife, high school sweetheart Eugenia Getchell, and two daughters, Hillary and Sheila, with second wife, actress Louise Valery. Christopher, who took stepfather Jonathan Rawson's surname, became a theatre critic. Hillary became a college professor at the University of Texas, and Sheila was a horse breeder in Ohio.
- 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.
- Did summer stock in Tiverton, New Jersey, before making his Broadway debut in "Pillar to Post" in 1943.
- Richart Hart has two nephews from Providence, RI, who followed him into entertainment: Richard Blackburn (Eating Raoul, Satan's Mistress, etc.) and his brother, Michael "ACE" Blackburn (Little Giants, Satan's Mistress, Soaps, etc.).
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