Gary Basaraba

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-03-16 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gary Basaraba

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gary Basaraba (born March 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor best known for playing American police officers. He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on Boomtown. According to the DVD commentary for the first season of the police drama Boomtown, he did most of his driving stunts in the series and he made sure he accurately portrayed police procedures. Basaraba played Heywood Broun, one of the greatest American journalists of the 20th Century, in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle in 1994. He played Sheriff Grady Kilgore in Fried Green Tomatoes. He al...

Acting

1988

2006

Charlotte's Web

as Homer Zuckerman

1986

No Mercy

as Joe Collins

1985

One Magic Christmas

as Jack Grainger

1995

2011

The Smurfs

as Hefty Smurf (voice)

1985

Sweet Dreams

as Woodhouse

2002

K-9: P.I.

as Pete Timmons

2011

2012

1992

Afterburn

as Bill Decker

1999

Holy Joe

as Ernie Blevins

1993

For Their Own Good

as Roy Wheeler

2013

1991

Fried Green Tomatoes

as Grady Kilgore

1997

Dead Silence

as Shephard Wilcox

1992

2016

1994

The War

as Dodge

2002

Unfaithful

as Detective Mirojnick

2017

Suburbicon

as Uncle Mitch

2016

2013

The Smurfs 2

as Hefty Smurf (voice)

2019

The Irishman

as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons

1989

Little Sweetheart

as Barkeeper

2018

American Animals

as Warren Lipka Senior

2018

Little Italy

as Vince

2002

Guilty Hearts

as Matt Moran

2009

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

as Jerry Pollard, motorman

1996

Striptease

as Alberto

2008

Recount

as Clay Roberts

2023

Sound of Freedom

as Earl Buchanan

1985

Alamo Bay

as Leon

2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

as Detective Burns

1997

Lifebreath

as John

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