Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-08-13 (70 years old)
Deathday
1984-09-17
Place of Birth
Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Also known As
Ричард Бейсхарт
Ричард Бэйзхарт
John Richard Basehart
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...
1954
as Il 'Matto'
1979
as Vladimir Skrapinov
1956
as Ishmael
1951
as Lt. Dick Rennick
1949
as Roy Martin / Roy Morgan
1977
as Sayer of the Law
1949
as Warren Quimby
1949
as Maximilian Robespierre
1965
as Dr. Gregor Hoffman
1971
as Host / Narrator
1976
as Dr. Leonard Chaney
1951
as Alan Spender
1955
as Carlo
1947
as William Williams
1958
as Ivan Karamazov
1947
as James Caldwell Demarest
1953
as George S. Headley
1957
as Maj. Harry Cargill
1954
as Joe Halsey
1982
as Wilton Knight
1960
as Howard Mason
1951
as Cpl. Denno
1971
as The President
1963
as Ah Min
2004
as Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)
1976
as Willy Brandt
1951
as Robert Cosick
1950
as Larry Nelson
1970
as Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner
1955
as Larry Kendall
2002
as Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
1956
as Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson
1957
as Martino
1972
as Dr. Roy Caldwell
1962
as Adolf Hitler
1975
as George Latimer
1978
as Manny Benchly
1961
as Steve Fallon
1979
as Duke of Kentland
1964
as Narrator (voice)
1977
as John Cutler
1955
as Il conte Jacques de Maudy
1969
as Dr. Boeker
1960
as Don Benton
1973
as Schiller
1949
as Mounts Hatfield
1956
as Joe Blake
1965
as Narrator (voice)
1980
as Johnny Hyde
1963
as Narrator (voice)
1971
as Robert Barnes
1973
as Carl Brenner
1954
as Joe Hamstringer
1959
as Wittkuhn
1970
as Henry Wirz
1960
as Eric Reinhardt
1954
as Doctor Stefano Luprandi
1969
as Acteur
1979
as Himself
1955
as Ing. Stefano Manfredi
1958
as Paolo Martelli
1976
as Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
1972
as Maj. Barney Caldwell
1959
as George Rancourt
1973
as Dr Douglas Pruitt
1960
as Father Phelan
1968
as Narrator
1972
as Angus Keough
1978
as King Arthur
1972
as Nye Buell
1975
1964
as Narrator
1979
as Narrator
1977
as Elliott Osborn
1982
1982
as Narrator (Self)
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