Richard Basehart
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, USA — Aug 31 1914• Died Sep 17 1984
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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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Columbo
Nicholas Framer
Knight Rider
Wilton Knight
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Philip Townsend
Ironside
Noel Seymour
The Love Boat
Stan Ellis
The Twilight Zone
Adam Cook
Hawaii Five-O
Murdock
Little House on the Prairie
Hannibal Applewood
Combat!
Capt. Steiner
Naked City
Lester Bergson
Studio One
Matt Donovan
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Professor Andrew Kirkcastle
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
David Manning
Tales of the Unexpected
Slade
Ben Casey
Route 66
Rawhide
Tod Stone
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Adm. Harriman Nelson
Vega$
Gunsmoke
Captain Aron Sligo
The Streets of San Francisco
Bishop Tim Farrow
How the West Was Won
Colonel Flint
Arrest and Trial
Dan August
Prof. Theodore Rye
Mr. Merlin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Conway
Joe Forrester
Masada
Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Rage
Dr. Roy Caldwell
Medical Story
Dr. Charles Galpin
National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)
Moby Dick
Ishmael
Being There
Vladimir Skrapinov
La Strada
Il 'Matto'
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)
Titanic
George S. Headley
Chato's Land
Nye Buell
The Critical List
Matt Kinsella
Tension
Warren Quimby
Fourteen Hours
Robert Cosick
He Walked by Night
Roy Martin / Roy Morgan
The Bounty Man
Angus Keough
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Sayer of the Law
Kings of the Sun
Ah Min
Flood!
John Cutler
The Savage Guns
Steve Fallon
Repeat Performance
William Williams
The Satan Bug
Dr. Gregor Hoffman
Reign of Terror
Maximilian Robespierre
Five Branded Women
Eric Reinhardt
Cry Wolf
James Caldwell Demarest
Marilyn: The Untold Story
Johnny Hyde
The Brothers Karamazov
Ivan Karamazov
The Good Die Young
Joe Halsey
W.E.B.
The Death of Me Yet
Robert Barnes
Decision Before Dawn
Lt. Dick Rennick
Time Travelers
Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
The House on Telegraph Hill
Alan Spender
Time Limit
Maj. Harry Cargill
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Portrait in Black
Howard Mason
Valley Forge
Love Is a Funny Thing
Acteur
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
George Latimer
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Swindle
Carlo
The Great Bank Hoax
Manny Benchly
The Intimate Stranger
Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson
The Rebels
Duke of Kentland
Canyon Crossroads
Larry Kendall
Outside the Wall
Larry Nelson
Sole Survivor
Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner
Roseanna McCoy
Mounts Hatfield
Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
Wilton Knight
Fixed Bayonets!
Cpl. Denno
City Beneath the Sea
The President
The Ambitious One
George Rancourt
21 Hours at Munich
Willy Brandt
Mansion of the Doomed
Dr. Leonard Chaney
Assignment: Munich
Maj. Barney Caldwell
The Birdmen
Schiller
Jons und Erdme
Wittkuhn
The Hiding Place
Martin Lambert
The Andersonville Trial
Henry Wirz
Hans Brinker
Dr. Boeker
The First Woman President
Woodrow Wilson
The Stranger's Hand
Joe Hamstringer
Visa to Canton
Don Benton
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
King Arthur
Love and Troubles
Paolo Martelli
Four Days In November
Narrator (voice)
The Golden Vein
Ing. Stefano Manfredi
For the Love of Mike
Father Phelan
...And Millions Die!
Dr Douglas Pruitt
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Elliott Osborn
The Extra Day
Joe Blake
Cartouche
Il conte Jacques de Maudy
So Soon to Die
Lionel Amblin
Maneater
Carl Brenner
They've Killed President Lincoln!
Host / Narrator
Jailbirds
Doctor Stefano Luprandi
Miracles of Thursday
Martino
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Narrator
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Self
Land of Celtic Ghosts
Himself
Egypt: Quest for Eternity
Narrator (Self)
Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls
Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
Narrator (voice)
The Yanks Are Coming
Narrator (voice)
Planet Mars
Narrator
Trial at Nuremberg
Narrator