Born in Zanesville, Ohio, USA — Aug 31 1914• Died Sep 17 1984

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 Dec…
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Nicholas Framer

Wilton Knight

Philip Townsend

Noel Seymour

Stan Ellis

Adam Cook

Murdock

Hannibal Applewood

Capt. Steiner

Lester Bergson

Matt Donovan

Professor Andrew Kirkcastle

David Manning

Slade



Tod Stone

Adm. Harriman Nelson


Captain Aron Sligo

Bishop Tim Farrow

Colonel Flint


Prof. Theodore Rye


Conway


Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

Dr. Roy Caldwell

Dr. Charles Galpin

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Ishmael

Vladimir Skrapinov

Il 'Matto'

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

George S. Headley

Nye Buell

Matt Kinsella

Warren Quimby

Robert Cosick

Roy Martin / Roy Morgan

Angus Keough

Sayer of the Law

Ah Min

John Cutler

Steve Fallon

William Williams

Dr. Gregor Hoffman

Maximilian Robespierre

Eric Reinhardt

James Caldwell Demarest

Johnny Hyde

Ivan Karamazov

Joe Halsey

Robert Barnes

Lt. Dick Rennick

Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)

Alan Spender

Maj. Harry Cargill

Adolf Hitler

Howard Mason


Acteur

George Latimer

Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)

Carlo

Manny Benchly

Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson

Duke of Kentland

Larry Kendall

Larry Nelson

Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner

Mounts Hatfield

Wilton Knight

Cpl. Denno

The President

George Rancourt

Willy Brandt

Dr. Leonard Chaney

Maj. Barney Caldwell

Schiller

Wittkuhn

Martin Lambert

Henry Wirz

Dr. Boeker

Woodrow Wilson

Joe Hamstringer

Don Benton

King Arthur

Paolo Martelli

Narrator (voice)

Ing. Stefano Manfredi

Father Phelan

Dr Douglas Pruitt

Elliott Osborn

Joe Blake

Il conte Jacques de Maudy

Lionel Amblin

Carl Brenner

Host / Narrator

Doctor Stefano Luprandi

Martino

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Self

Himself

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