Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Despite this real success in Hollywood eluded him until 1950 when he co-starred with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in the highly successful jungle adventure film King Solomon's Mines shot on location in Africa. In 1959 Carlson was cast as Paul Drake in "The Faithless" of the NBC western series Riverboat. He was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery in West Los Angeles.

Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29 1912 – November 25 1977) was an American actor television and film director and screenwriter.