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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohn 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 Wises 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 shows 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 CBSs 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.
Il 'Matto'
Film 1954
Host / Narrator
Film 1971
Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)
Film 2004
Larry Kendall
Film 1955
Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 2002
Adolf Hitler
Film 1962
George Latimer
Film 1975
Manny Benchly
Film 1978
Steve Fallon
Film 1961
Duke of Kentland
Film 1979
Narrator (voice)
Film 1964
John Cutler
Film 1977
Il conte Jacques de Maudy
Film 1955
Dr. Boeker
Film 1969
Don Benton
Film 1960
Narrator (voice)
Film 1965
Narrator (voice)
Film 1963
Wittkuhn
Film 1959
Henry Wirz
Film 1970
Himself
Film 1979
Narrator
Film 1985
Ing. Stefano Manfredi
Film 1955
Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
Film 1976
George Rancourt
Film 1959
Father Phelan
Film 1960
Narrator
Film 1968
King Arthur
Film 1978
Film 1975
Narrator
Film 1964
Narrator
Film 1979
Elliott Osborn
Film 1977
Self
Film 1982
Narrator (Self)
Film 1982
Tv 1974
Tv 1960
Tv 1972
Tv 1963
Tv 1978
Tv 1981
Tv 1961
Tv 1978
Tv 1975
Tv 1975
Narrator (voice)
Tv 1965
Philip Townsend
Tv 1962
Miles Crawford
Tv 1962
