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person_profile-Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart Died at age: 70

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Aug 13, 1914

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Sep 17, 1984

Biography of

Richard Basehart

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.

    One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaimed Italian film La strada directed by Federico Fellini. He also appeared as the killer in the film noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), as a psychotic member of the Hatfield clan in Roseanna McCoy (1949), as Ishmael in Moby Dick (1956), and in the drama Decision Before Dawn (1951). He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son before their divorce in 1960. Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wise's The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).

    Basehart was also noted for his deep, distinctive voice and was prolific as a narrator of many television and movie projects ranging from features to documentaries. In 1980, Basehart narrated the mini-series written by Peter Arnett called Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War that covered Vietnam and its battles from the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 to the final American embassy evacuation on April 30, 1975. He appeared in the pilot episode of the television series Knight Rider as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the show's credits.

    In 1971, Basehart played "Captain Sligo", a comical Irishman with a pet buffalo who negotiates a flawed but legal cattle purchase and unconventionally courts a widow with two children, played by Salome Jens, in CBS's western series, Gunsmoke, with James Arness. Basehart appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in Little House on the Prairie in 1976.

    In 1972, he appeared in the Columbo episode Dagger of the Mind in which he and Honor Blackman played a husband-and-wife theatrical team who were loose parodies of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In the feature realm, he played a supporting role as a doctor in Rage (1972), a theatrical feature starring and directed by George C. Scott. He made a few TV movies including Sole Survivor (1970) and The Birdmen (1971). Both were based on true stories during World War II.

    He died at age 70 following a series of strokes. One month before his death, Basehart was an announcer for the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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Filmography of

Richard Basehart

Found 72 Movies in total

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2002

... 1985

... 1982

Egypt: Quest for Eternity

Narrator (Self) ( Actor )

... 1982

Marilyn: The Untold Story

Johnny Hyde ( Actor )

... 1980

Being There

Vladimir Skrapinov ( Actor )

... 1979

Land of Celtic Ghosts

Himself ( Actor )

... 1979

The Rebels

Duke of Kentland ( Actor )

... 1979

The Great Bank Hoax

Manny Benchly ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1978

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Sayer of the Law ( Actor )

... 1977

Flood!

John Cutler ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1977

21 Hours at Munich

Willy Brandt ( Actor )

... 1976

Mansion of the Doomed

Dr. Leonard Chaney ( Actor )

... 1976

Time Travelers

Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871) ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1975

... 1975

Maneater

Carl Brenner ( Actor )

... 1973

The Birdmen

Schiller ( Actor )

... 1973

...And Millions Die!

Dr Douglas Pruitt ( Actor )

... 1973

Rage

Dr. Roy Caldwell ( Actor )

... 1972

The Bounty Man

Angus Keough ( Actor )

... 1972

Chato's Land

Nye Buell ( Actor )

... 1972

Assignment: Munich

Maj. Barney Caldwell ( Actor )

... 1972

The Death of Me Yet

Robert Barnes ( Actor )

... 1971

City Beneath the Sea

The President ( Actor )

... 1971

The Andersonville Trial

Henry Wirz ( Actor )

... 1970

Sole Survivor

Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner ( Actor )

... 1970

Hans Brinker

Dr. Boeker ( Actor )

... 1969

Love Is a Funny Thing

Acteur ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1968

The Satan Bug

Dr. Gregor Hoffman ( Actor )

... 1965

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 1965

Trial at Nuremberg

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1964

Four Days In November

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 1964

Kings of the Sun

Ah Min ( Actor )

... 1963

Hitler

Adolf Hitler ( Actor )

... 1962

The Savage Guns

Steve Fallon ( Actor )

... 1961

Visa to Canton

Don Benton ( Actor )

... 1960

For the Love of Mike

Father Phelan ( Actor )

... 1960

Portrait in Black

Howard Mason ( Actor )

... 1960

Five Branded Women

Eric Reinhardt ( Actor )

... 1960

The Ambitious One

George Rancourt ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1958

The Brothers Karamazov

Ivan Karamazov ( Actor )

... 1958

Time Limit

Maj. Harry Cargill ( Actor )

... 1957

Miracles of Thursday

Martino ( Actor )

... 1957

Moby Dick

Ishmael ( Actor )

... 1956

Finger of Guilt

Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson ( Actor )

... 1956

The Extra Day

Joe Blake ( Actor )

... 1956

The Swindle

Picasso ( Actor )

... 1955

The Golden Vein

Ing. Stefano Manfredi ( Actor )

... 1955

Canyon Crossroads

Larry Kendall ( Actor )

... 1955

La Strada

Il 'Matto' ( Actor )

... 1954

Jailbirds

Doctor Stefano Luprandi ( Actor )

... 1954

The Good Die Young

Joe Halsey ( Actor )

... 1954

The Stranger's Hand

Joe Hamstringer ( Actor )

... 1954

Titanic

George S. Headley ( Actor )

... 1953

Decision Before Dawn

Lt. Dick Rennick ( Actor )

... 1951

Fixed Bayonets!

Cpl. Denno ( Actor )

... 1951

The House on Telegraph Hill

Alan Spender ( Actor )

... 1951

Fourteen Hours

Robert Cosick ( Actor )

... 1951

Outside the Wall

Larry Nelson ( Actor )

... 1950

Tension

Warren Quimby ( Actor )

... 1949

Reign of Terror

Maximilian Robespierre ( Actor )

... 1949

Roseanna McCoy

Mounts Hatfield ( Actor )

... 1949

He Walked by Night

Roy Martin / Roy Morgan ( Actor )

... 1949

Cry Wolf

James Caldwell Demarest ( Actor )

... 1947

Repeat Performance

William Williams ( Actor )

... 1947