Richard Basehart

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1914-08-13
  • event Death Date 1984-09-17
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 4.3
  • info Birth Place Zanesville, Ohio, USA
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La Strada

1954-09-23

7.6

Being There

1979-12-19

7.1

Moby Dick

1956-06-27

6.7

Decision Before Dawn

1951-12-21

6.7

He Walked by Night

1949-02-06

5.5

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1977-07-13

6.8

Tension

1949-11-25

6.9

Reign of Terror

1949-10-15

6.1

The Satan Bug

1965-03-26

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They've Killed President Lincoln!

1971-02-12

6.2

Mansion of the Doomed

1976-10-01

6.4

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951-05-12

7.3

The Swindle

1955-10-07

6.1

Repeat Performance

1947-05-22

6.6

The Brothers Karamazov

1958-02-20

5.9

Cry Wolf

1947-08-19

6.6

Titanic

1953-04-11

7

Time Limit

1957-10-23

6.4

The Good Die Young

1954-03-02

5.5

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

1982-09-26

5.7

Portrait in Black

1960-07-27

6.5

Fixed Bayonets!

1951-11-21

4.1

City Beneath the Sea

1971-07-16

6.1

Kings of the Sun

1963-12-18

7.6

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004-07-28

6.2

21 Hours at Munich

1976-12-25

7.1

Fourteen Hours

1951-04-01

6

Outside the Wall

1950-02-08

6.4

Sole Survivor

1970-01-09

6

Canyon Crossroads

1955-01-01

5.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002-07-02

5.8

Finger of Guilt

1956-06-01

6.8

Miracles of Thursday

1957-08-22

6.7

Rage

1972-11-22

5.8

Hitler

1962-03-21

6

Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley

1975-01-12

4.2

The Great Bank Hoax

1978-11-01

3.3

The Savage Guns

1961-11-01

0

The Rebels

1979-05-14

6

Four Days In November

1964-10-07

4.9

Flood!

1977-06-05

5

Cartouche

1955-07-01

6.5

Hans Brinker

1969-12-14

4.7

Visa to Canton

1960-12-26

7.5

The Birdmen

1973-11-08

6.1

Roseanna McCoy

1949-10-12

6.6

The Extra Day

1956-01-01

0

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel

1965-01-01

8.2

Marilyn: The Untold Story

1980-11-10

0

The Yanks Are Coming

1963-11-04

7

The Death of Me Yet

1971-10-26

0

Maneater

1973-12-09

6.8

The Stranger's Hand

1954-01-20

0

Jons und Erdme

1959-03-04

6.7

The Andersonville Trial

1970-05-17

6

Five Branded Women

1960-03-15

0

Jailbirds

1954-09-18

6.4

Love Is a Funny Thing

1969-12-12

0

Land of Celtic Ghosts

1979-10-15

0

Knight Rider: Halloween Knight

1985-07-14

5.5

The Golden Vein

1955-09-30

5.8

Love and Troubles

1958-12-19

6.2

Time Travelers

1976-03-19

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Assignment: Munich

1972-04-30

6.5

The Ambitious One

1959-10-14

4

...And Millions Die!

1973-01-01

5

For the Love of Mike

1960-08-28

8

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

1968-03-06

5.5

The Bounty Man

1972-10-31

0

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1978-05-23

6.5

Chato's Land

1972-05-25

0

Valley Forge

1975-12-03

7

Trial at Nuremberg

1964-12-09

0

Planet Mars

1979-01-01

0

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

1977-01-16

0

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

1982-12-25

6.3

Egypt: Quest for Eternity

1982-03-06

8.1

Columbo

1971-09-15

7.7

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964-09-14

8

Little House on the Prairie

1974-09-11

6.3

The Love Boat

1977-09-24

7.1

Hawaii Five-O

1968-09-20

7.6

Knight Rider

1982-09-26

6.4

Route 66

1960-10-07

6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

1979-03-24

7

The Streets of San Francisco

1972-09-23

5.3

Naked City

1958-09-30

5

Arrest and Trial

1963-09-15

6.5

Gunsmoke

1955-09-10

4.4

Studio One

1948-11-07

7.6

Combat!

1962-10-02

8.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951-12-24

7

Rawhide

1959-01-09

7

Vega$

1978-09-20

4.7

Mr. Merlin

1981-10-07

5.7

Ben Casey

1961-10-02

5

W.E.B.

1978-09-13

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956-10-05

5

Medical Story

1975-09-04

7

Joe Forrester

1975-09-09

8.5

The Twilight Zone

1959-10-02

8.8

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951-12-24

5.2

National Geographic Specials

1965-09-10

6.9

Ironside

1967-03-28

7.2

Masada

1981-04-05

6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1969-09-23

0

The Critical List

1978-09-11

7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962-09-20

7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962-09-20