Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart

  • Birthday: 1914-08-13
  • Deathday: 1984-09-17
  • Place of birth: Zanesville, Ohio, USA
  • Also know as: Ричард Бейсхарт

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Basehart, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Decision Before Dawn

1951

As Lt. Dick Rennick

He Walked by Night

1949

As Roy Martin / Roy Morgan

Tension

1949

As Warren Quimby

Mansion of the Doomed

1976

As Dr. Leonard Chaney

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951

As Alan Spender

Fixed Bayonets!

1951

As Cpl. Denno

Outside the Wall

1950

As Larry Nelson

Canyon Crossroads

1955

As Larry Kendall

Finger of Guilt

1956

As Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson

Miracles of Thursday

1957

As Martino

Hitler

1962

As Adolf Hitler

The Great Bank Hoax

1978

As Manny Benchly

The Savage Guns

1961

As Steve Fallon

Four Days In November

1964

As Narrator (voice)

Visa to Canton

1960

As Don Benton

The Extra Day

1956

As Joe Blake

Jailbirds

1954

As Doctor Stefano Luprandi

Assignment: Munich

1972

As Maj. Barney Caldwell

...And Millions Die!

1973

As Dr Douglas Pruitt

For the Love of Mike

1960

As Father Phelan

Valley Forge

1975

As

Trial at Nuremberg

1964

As Narrator

Planet Mars

1979

As Narrator

Egypt: Quest for Eternity

1982

As Narrator (Self)

They've Killed President Lincoln!

1971

As Host / Narrator

Cartouche

1955

As Il conte Jacques de Maudy

Land of Celtic Ghosts

1979

As Himself

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel

1965

As Narrator (voice)

The Yanks Are Coming

1963

As Narrator (voice)

Moby Dick

1956

As Ishmael

Reign of Terror

1949

As Maximilian Robespierre

The Satan Bug

1965

As Dr. Gregor Hoffman

Time Limit

1957

As Maj. Harry Cargill

Fourteen Hours

1951

As Robert Cosick

Sole Survivor

1970

As Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner

Rage

1972

As Dr. Roy Caldwell

Hans Brinker

1969

As Dr. Boeker

Marilyn: The Untold Story

1980

As Johnny Hyde

Love and Troubles

1958

As Paolo Martelli

The Golden Vein

1955

As Ing. Stefano Manfredi

The Ambitious One

1959

As George Rancourt

The Bounty Man

1972

As Angus Keough

La Strada

1954

As Il 'Matto'

The Good Die Young

1954

As Joe Halsey

Portrait in Black

1960

As Howard Mason

The Birdmen

1973

As Schiller

Maneater

1973

As Carl Brenner

Jons und Erdme

1959

As Wittkuhn

The Swindle

1955

As Picasso

Cry Wolf

1947

As James Caldwell Demarest

Kings of the Sun

1963

As Ah Min

Flood!

1977

As John Cutler

The Death of Me Yet

1971

As Robert Barnes

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1977

As Sayer of the Law

Repeat Performance

1947

As William Williams

21 Hours at Munich

1976

As Willy Brandt

The Rebels

1979

As Duke of Kentland

The Stranger's Hand

1954

As Joe Hamstringer

The Andersonville Trial

1970

As Henry Wirz

Time Travelers

1976

As Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)

Being There

1979

As Vladimir Skrapinov

The Brothers Karamazov

1958

As Ivan Karamazov

Roseanna McCoy

1949

As Mounts Hatfield

Titanic

1953

As George S. Headley

Five Branded Women

1960

As Eric Reinhardt

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

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

City Beneath the Sea

1971

As The President

Love Is a Funny Thing

1969

As Acteur

Chato's Land

1972

As Nye Buell

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002

As Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)

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