Richard Basehart

Actor Aug 31 (died age 70) Zanesville, Ohio, USA 1947–2004 (57 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

La Strada

Il 'Matto'

Film

Being There

Vladimir Skrapinov

Film

Moby Dick

Ishmael

Film

The Swindle

Carlo

Film

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Adm. Harriman Nelson

Film

Titanic

George S. Headley

Film

Chato's Land

Nye Buell

Film

Los Angeles Plays Itself

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

Filmography

Acting (113)

Movies (80)

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

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

7.6

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002

as Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.8

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet

1982

as Self

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

1982

as Wilton Knight

5.5

Egypt: Quest for Eternity

1982

as Narrator (Self)

6.3

Marilyn: The Untold Story

1980

as Johnny Hyde

6.8

Being There

1979

as Vladimir Skrapinov

7.6

Planet Mars

1979

as Narrator

The Rebels

1979

as Duke of Kentland

Land of Celtic Ghosts

1979

as Himself

The Great Bank Hoax

1978

as Manny Benchly

4.4

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1978

as King Arthur

Flood!

1977

as John Cutler

5.0

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1977

as Sayer of the Law

5.6

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

1977

as Elliott Osborn

Mansion of the Doomed

1976

as Dr. Leonard Chaney

21 Hours at Munich

as Willy Brandt

Time Travelers

as Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)

6.2

Valley Forge

1975

Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley

1975

as George Latimer

3.7

The First Woman President

1974

as Woodrow Wilson

Maneater

1973

as Carl Brenner

The Birdmen

as Schiller

...And Millions Die!

as Dr Douglas Pruitt

Chato's Land

as Nye Buell

Assignment: Munich

as Maj. Barney Caldwell

The Bounty Man

as Angus Keough

Rage

as Dr. Roy Caldwell

They've Killed President Lincoln!

1971

as Host / Narrator

City Beneath the Sea

as The President

The Death of Me Yet

as Robert Barnes

Sole Survivor

as Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner

6.4

The Andersonville Trial

1970

as Henry Wirz

6.7

Love Is a Funny Thing

as Acteur

Hans Brinker

as Dr. Boeker

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

1968

as Narrator

8.0

Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls

1967

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel

1965

as Narrator (voice)

The Satan Bug

1965

as Dr. Gregor Hoffman

6.1

Four Days In November

as Narrator (voice)

Trial at Nuremberg

as Narrator

The Yanks Are Coming

as Narrator (voice)

Kings of the Sun

as Ah Min

Hitler

as Adolf Hitler

The Savage Guns

as Steve Fallon

Visa to Canton

as Don Benton

The Hiding Place

as Martin Lambert

Five Branded Women

as Eric Reinhardt

Portrait in Black

as Howard Mason

For the Love of Mike

as Father Phelan

The Ambitious One

as George Rancourt

Jons und Erdme

as Wittkuhn

The Brothers Karamazov

as Ivan Karamazov

Love and Troubles

as Paolo Martelli

Time Limit

as Maj. Harry Cargill

7.1

So Soon to Die

1957

as Lionel Amblin

Miracles of Thursday

as Martino

Moby Dick

as Ishmael

The Intimate Stranger

1956

as Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson

The Extra Day

as Joe Blake

The Swindle

as Carlo

Canyon Crossroads

as Larry Kendall

The Golden Vein

as Ing. Stefano Manfredi

5.5

Cartouche

1955

as Il conte Jacques de Maudy

La Strada

as Il 'Matto'

The Good Die Young

as Joe Halsey

Jailbirds

as Doctor Stefano Luprandi

The Stranger's Hand

as Joe Hamstringer

Titanic

as George S. Headley

Decision Before Dawn

as Lt. Dick Rennick

Fourteen Hours

as Robert Cosick

Fixed Bayonets!

as Cpl. Denno

The House on Telegraph Hill

as Alan Spender

Outside the Wall

as Larry Nelson

Reign of Terror

as Maximilian Robespierre

Tension

as Warren Quimby

He Walked by Night

as Roy Martin / Roy Morgan

Roseanna McCoy

as Mounts Hatfield

Cry Wolf

as James Caldwell Demarest

5.9

Repeat Performance

1947

as William Williams

6.0

Television (33)

Knight Rider

1982

as Wilton Knight

7.5

Masada

1981

as Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

7.0

Mr. Merlin

1981

4.7

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Slade

6.7

The Rebels

1979

as Duke of Kentland

Vega$

1978

7.0

The Critical List

1978

as Matt Kinsella

W.E.B.

The Love Boat

as Stan Ellis

How the West Was Won

as Colonel Flint

Medical Story

Joe Forrester

Little House on the Prairie

1974

7.9

The Streets of San Francisco

as Bishop Tim Farrow

Columbo

as Nicholas Framer

Dan August

as Prof. Theodore Rye

6.8

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1969

as Professor Andrew Kirkcastle

Hawaii Five-O

as Murdock

Ironside

as Noel Seymour

National Geographic Specials

1965

as Narrator (voice)

6.9

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964

as Adm. Harriman Nelson

7.7

Arrest and Trial

1963

7.7

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Philip Townsend

Combat!

as Capt. Steiner

Ben Casey

Route 66

The Twilight Zone

as Adam Cook

Rawhide

as Tod Stone

Naked City

as Lester Bergson

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

as David Manning

6.0

Gunsmoke

1955

as Captain Aron Sligo

6.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Conway

Studio One

as Matt Donovan