One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.

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.