Richard Basehart

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-08-13 (70 years old)

Deathday

1984-09-17

Place of Birth

Zanesville, Ohio, USA

Richard Basehart

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...

Acting

1954

La Strada

as Il 'Matto'

1979

Being There

as Vladimir Skrapinov

1956

Moby Dick

as Ishmael

1951

Decision Before Dawn

as Lt. Dick Rennick

1949

He Walked by Night

as Roy Martin / Roy Morgan

1977

The Island of Dr. Moreau

as Sayer of the Law

1949

Tension

as Warren Quimby

1949

Reign of Terror

as Maximilian Robespierre

1965

The Satan Bug

as Dr. Gregor Hoffman

1971

1976

Mansion of the Doomed

as Dr. Leonard Chaney

1951

1955

The Swindle

as Carlo

1947

Repeat Performance

as William Williams

1958

The Brothers Karamazov

as Ivan Karamazov

1947

Cry Wolf

as James Caldwell Demarest

1953

Titanic

as George S. Headley

1957

Time Limit

as Maj. Harry Cargill

1954

The Good Die Young

as Joe Halsey

1960

Portrait in Black

as Howard Mason

1951

Fixed Bayonets!

as Cpl. Denno

1971

City Beneath the Sea

as The President

1963

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

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

1976

21 Hours at Munich

as Willy Brandt

1951

Fourteen Hours

as Robert Cosick

1950

Outside the Wall

as Larry Nelson

1970

Sole Survivor

as Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner

1955

Canyon Crossroads

as Larry Kendall

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)

1956

The Intimate Stranger

as Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson

1957

1972

Rage

as Dr. Roy Caldwell

1962

Hitler

as Adolf Hitler

1978

The Great Bank Hoax

as Manny Benchly

1961

The Savage Guns

as Steve Fallon

1979

The Rebels

as Duke of Kentland

1964

Four Days In November

as Narrator (voice)

1977

Flood!

as John Cutler

1955

Cartouche

as Il conte Jacques de Maudy

1969

Hans Brinker

as Dr. Boeker

1960

Visa to Canton

as Don Benton

1973

The Birdmen

as Schiller

1949

Roseanna McCoy

as Mounts Hatfield

1956

The Extra Day

as Joe Blake

1980

1963

The Yanks Are Coming

as Narrator (voice)

1971

The Death of Me Yet

as Robert Barnes

1973

Maneater

as Carl Brenner

1954

The Stranger's Hand

as Joe Hamstringer

1959

Jons und Erdme

as Wittkuhn

1970

1960

Five Branded Women

as Eric Reinhardt

1954

Jailbirds

as Doctor Stefano Luprandi

1979

1955

The Golden Vein

as Ing. Stefano Manfredi

1958

Love and Troubles

as Paolo Martelli

1976

Time Travelers

as Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)

1972

Assignment: Munich

as Maj. Barney Caldwell

1959

The Ambitious One

as George Rancourt

1973

...And Millions Die!

as Dr Douglas Pruitt

1960

For the Love of Mike

as Father Phelan

1972

The Bounty Man

as Angus Keough

1972

Chato's Land

as Nye Buell

1964

1979

Planet Mars

as Narrator

1982

Egypt: Quest for Eternity

as Narrator (Self)

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