Richard Basehart
Age: 70 | From: Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1914-08-13 00:09:55
Death: 1984-09-17 00:09:55
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Zanesville, Ohio, USA
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Movie Involvements: 70
TV Involvements: 18
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Knight Rider
(1982) Wilton Knight
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Slade
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
(1964) Adm. Harriman Nelson
Columbo
(1971) Nicholas Framer
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Miles Crawford
Hawaii Five-O
(1968) Murdock
Marcus Welby, M.D.
(1969) Professor Andrew Kirkcastle
Rawhide
(1959) Tod StoneActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1985 | Narrator | |
| 1982 | Self | |
| Wilton Knight | ||
| Wilton Knight | ||
| Narrator (Self) | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1980 | Johnny Hyde | |
| 1979 | Vladimir Skrapinov | |
| Himself | ||
| Duke of Kentland | ||
| Slade | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1978 | Manny Benchly | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Matt Kinsella | ||
| King Arthur | ||
| 1977 | Stan Ellis | |
| Sayer of the Law | ||
| John Cutler | ||
| Elliott Osborn | ||
| 1976 | Willy Brandt | |
| Dr. Leonard Chaney | ||
| Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871) | ||
| 1975 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| George Latimer | ||
| 1974 | N/A | |
| 1973 | Carl Brenner | |
| Schiller | ||
| Dr Douglas Pruitt | ||
| 1972 | Dr. Roy Caldwell | |
| Angus Keough | ||
| N/A | ||
| Nye Buell | ||
| Maj. Barney Caldwell | ||
| 1971 | Robert Barnes | |
| Nicholas Framer | ||
| The President | ||
| Host / Narrator | ||
| 1970 | Henry Wirz | |
| Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner | ||
| 1969 | Dr. Boeker | |
| Acteur | ||
| Professor Andrew Kirkcastle | ||
| 1968 | Murdock | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| 1965 | Dr. Gregor Hoffman | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1964 | Narrator | |
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Adm. Harriman Nelson | ||
| 1963 | Ah Min | |
| N/A | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1962 | Capt. Steiner | |
| Steve Fallon | ||
| Philip Townsend | ||
| Miles Crawford | ||
| Adolf Hitler | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| 1960 | Don Benton | |
| N/A | ||
| Father Phelan | ||
| Howard Mason | ||
| Eric Reinhardt | ||
| 1959 | George Rancourt | |
| N/A | ||
| Wittkuhn | ||
| Tod Stone | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Lester Bergson | ||
| Ivan Karamazov | ||
| 1957 | Maj. Harry Cargill | |
| Martino | ||
| 1956 | David Manning | |
| Ishmael | ||
| Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson | ||
| Joe Blake | ||
| 1955 | Picasso | |
| Ing. Stefano Manfredi | ||
| Captain Aron Sligo | ||
| Il conte Jacques de Maudy | ||
| Larry Kendall | ||
| 1954 | Il 'Matto' | |
| Doctor Stefano Luprandi | ||
| Joe Halsey | ||
| Joe Hamstringer | ||
| 1953 | George S. Headley | |
| 1951 | General Washington | |
| Conway | ||
| Lt. Dick Rennick | ||
| Cpl. Denno | ||
| Alan Spender | ||
| Robert Cosick | ||
| 1950 | Larry Nelson | |
| 1949 | Warren Quimby | |
| Maximilian Robespierre | ||
| Mounts Hatfield | ||
| Roy Martin / Roy Morgan | ||
| 1948 | Matt Donovan | |
| 1947 | James Caldwell Demarest | |
| William Williams | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
