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Richard Basehart
Actor
Born August 13, 1914Died September 17, 1984 (70 years)
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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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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
| 2020 | Fellini of the Spirits · as Raul Detto Picasso |
| 2017 | The Green Fog · as Howard Mason |
| 2003 | Los Angeles Plays Itself · as Roy Morgan/roy Martin In He Walked By Night (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller · as Cpl. Denno (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Knight Rider 2000 · as Wilton Knight - Flashback Sequence |
| 1984 | The Challenge of Change · as Narrator |
| 1983 | The Crowded Life · as Narrator |
| 1982 | Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix · as Wilton Knight |
| 1982 | Knight Rider (TV Series) · as Wilton Knight |
| 1981 | Mr. Merlin (TV Series) |
| 1981 | Masada (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1980 | Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1980 | Marilyn: The Untold Story · as Johnny Hyde |
| 1979 | Being There · as Vladimir Skrapinov |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) · as Slade |
| 1978 | Greatest Heroes of the Bible (TV Series) · as Johtan |
| 1978 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · as King Arthur |
| 1978 | Vega$ (TV Series) |
| 1977 | The Great Bank Hoax · as Manny Benchly |
| 1977 | The Island of Dr. Moreau · as Sayer Of The Law |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Stan Ellis |
| 1977 | Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? · as Elliott Osborn |
| 1976 | Flood · as John Cutler |
| 1976 | 21 Hours at Munich · as Willy Brandt |
| 1976 | Mansion of the Doomed · as Dr. Leonard Chaney |
| 1976 | Time Travelers · as Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871) |
| 1976 | How the West Was Won (TV Series) · as Colonel Flint |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | Medical Story (TV Series) |
| 1975 | Joe Forrester (TV Series) |
| 1975 | Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley · as George Latimer |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) |
| 1973 | Maneater · as Carl Brenner |
| 1973 | ...and Millions Die! · as Dr Douglas Pruitt |
| 1972 | Rage · as Dr. Roy Caldwell |
| 1972 | The Bounty Man · as Angus Keough |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Chato's Land · as Nye Buell |
| 1972 | Assignment: Munich · as Maj. Barney Caldwell |
| 1971 | The Death of Me Yet · as Robert Barnes |
| 1971 | The Birdmen · as Schiller |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) · as Nicholas Framer |
| 1971 | City Beneath the Sea · as The President |
| 1970 | Dan August (TV Series) · as Prof. Theodore Rye |
| 1970 | The Andersonville Trial · as Henry Wirz |
| 1970 | Sole Survivor · as Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner |
| 1969 | Giotto · as Narrator |
| 1969 | Hans Brinker · as Dr. Boeker |
| 1969 | Love Is a Funny Thing · as Acteur |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series) · as Dr. Stephen Mclayne |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Professor Andrew Kirkcastle |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Murdock |
| 1968 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich · as Narrator |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Noel Seymour |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1965 | Lost in Space (TV Series) · as Shakespeare-Reading Tape Recorder Voice |
| 1965 | The Satan Bug · as Dr. Gregor Hoffman |
| 1964 | Four Days in November · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) · as Adm. Harriman Nelson |
| 1963 | Kings of the Sun · as Ah Min |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Combat! (TV Series) · as Capt. Steiner |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Miles Crawford |
| 1962 | D-Day June 6, 1944 · as Narrator |
| 1962 | Hitler · as Adolf Hitler |
| 1961 | The Savage Guns · as Steve Fallon |
| 1961 | Ben Casey (TV Series) |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Judge Zachary |
| 1961 | The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1960 | Passport to China · as Don Benton |
| 1960 | |
| 1960 | Portrait in Black · as Howard Mason |
| 1960 | For the Love of Mike · as Father Phelan |
| 1960 | 5 Branded Women · as Eric Reinhardt |
| 1959 | The Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Stranger |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Adam Cook |
| 1959 | Jons und Erdme · as Wittkuhn |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Tod Stone |
| 1958 | Love and Troubles · as Paolo Martelli |
| 1958 | Naked City (TV Series) · as Lester Bergson |
| 1958 | The Brothers Karamazov · as Ivan Karamazov |
| 1957 | Time Limit · as Maj. Harry Cargill |
| 1957 | The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) · as Dr. George Ferguson |
| 1957 | Miracles of Thursday · as Martino |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as David Manning |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as David Connelly |
| 1956 | Moby Dick · as Ishmael |
| 1956 | The Extra Day · as Joe Blake |
| 1956 | Finger of Guilt · as Reginald 'reggie' Wilson |
| 1955 | The Swindle · as Picasso |
| 1955 | La vena d'oro · as Ing. Stefano Manfredi |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Captain Aron Sligo |
| 1955 | Canyon Crossroads · as Larry Kendall |
| 1954 | La Strada · as Il 'matto' |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young · as Joe Halsey |
| 1954 | Jailbirds · as Doctor Stefano Luprandi |
| 1954 | Angels of Darkness · as Bit Part |
| 1954 | The Stranger's Hand · as Joe Hamstringer |
| 1953 | Titanic · as George S. Headley |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as General Washington |
| 1951 | Decision Before Dawn · as Lt. Dick Rennick |
| 1951 | Fixed Bayonets! · as Cpl. Denno |
| 1951 | The House on Telegraph Hill · as Alan Spender |
| 1951 | Fourteen Hours · as Robert Cosick |
| 1950 | Outside the Wall · as Larry Nelson |
| 1949 | Side Street · as Bank Teller |
| 1949 | Tension · as Warren Quimby |
| 1949 | Reign of Terror · as Maximilian Robespierre |
| 1949 | Roseanna McCoy · as Mounts Hatfield |
| 1948 | He Walked by Night · as Roy Martin / Roy Morgan |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Matt Donovan |
| 1947 | Repeat Performance · as William Williams |
| 1947 | Cry Wolf · as James Caldwell Demarest |