Richard Basehart
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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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.995 |
Birthday | 1914-08-13 |
Place of Birth | Zanesville, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | Ричард Бейсхарт, Ричард Бэйзхарт, John Richard Basehart, |
1954
La Strada
7.903/1071
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1979
Being There
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1956
Moby Dick
7.049/419
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1951
Decision Before Dawn
6.7/44
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1949
He Walked by Night
6.7/92
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1977
The Island of Dr. Moreau
5.514/148
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Tension
6.8/49
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Reign of Terror
6.9/40
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1965
The Satan Bug
6.2/49
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1971
They've Killed President Lincoln!
0/0
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Mansion of the Doomed
6.2/28
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1951
The House on Telegraph Hill
6.3/59
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The Swindle
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Repeat Performance
6.1/34
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1958
The Brothers Karamazov
6.6/43
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Cry Wolf
5.9/28
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1953
Titanic
6.6/140
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1957
Time Limit
7/21
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1954
The Good Die Young
6.4/33
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Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
5.5/8
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1960
Portrait in Black
5.7/24
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1951
Fixed Bayonets!
6.5/35
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1971
City Beneath the Sea
4.1/11
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1963
Kings of the Sun
6/42
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.7/52
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21 Hours at Munich
6.2/19
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1951
Fourteen Hours
7.2/43
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1950
Outside the Wall
6/12
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1970
Sole Survivor
6.391/23
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1955
Canyon Crossroads
6/2
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
5.8/4
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1956
Finger of Guilt
5.8/11
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1957
Miracles of Thursday
6.759/29
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1972
Rage
6.7/18
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1962
Hitler
5.7/16
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1975
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
6/1
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The Great Bank Hoax
4.2/6
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The Savage Guns
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The Rebels
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1964
Four Days In November
6/7
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Flood!
4.9/13
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Cartouche
5/3
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1969
Hans Brinker
6.5/5
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1960
Visa to Canton
4.7/12
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The Birdmen
7.5/8
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1949
Roseanna McCoy
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The Extra Day
6.6/4
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1965
Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
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1980
Marilyn: The Untold Story
8.2/2
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1963
The Yanks Are Coming
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1971
The Death of Me Yet
7/2
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1973
Maneater
0/0
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The Stranger's Hand
6.8/4
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1959
Jons und Erdme
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1970
The Andersonville Trial
6.7/3
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1960
Five Branded Women
6/20
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1954
Jailbirds
4/1
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1969
Love Is a Funny Thing
6.4/47
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1979
Land of Celtic Ghosts
0/0
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1985
Knight Rider: Halloween Knight
0/0
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1955
The Golden Vein
5.5/2
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1958
Love and Troubles
5.938/8
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Time Travelers
6.2/13
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1972
Assignment: Munich
0/0
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1959
The Ambitious One
6.5/1
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1973
...And Millions Die!
4/3
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1960
For the Love of Mike
5/1
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1968
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
8/1
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1972
The Bounty Man
5.5/2
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1978
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
0/0
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1972
Chato's Land
6.549/143
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1975
Valley Forge
0/0
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1964
Trial at Nuremberg
7/1
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1979
Planet Mars
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1977
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
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1982
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
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Egypt: Quest for Eternity
6.3/3
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