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Aliases: Ричард Бейсхарт , Ричард Бэйзхарт , John Richard Basehart

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
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8

Knight Rider

(1982) Wilton Knight
Tales of the Unexpected
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7
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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8

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

(1964) Adm. Harriman Nelson
Columbo
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8

Columbo

(1971) Nicholas Framer
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(1962) Miles Crawford
Hawaii Five-O
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7

Hawaii Five-O

(1968) Murdock
Marcus Welby, M.D.
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7

Marcus Welby, M.D.

(1969) Professor Andrew Kirkcastle
Rawhide
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7

Rawhide

(1959) Tod Stone

Acting

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 Conway
General Washington
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

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