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 Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son before their divorce in 1960. Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wise's 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 show's 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 CBS's 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.
La Strada
(Il 'Matto')
Being There
(Vladimir Skrapinov)
Moby Dick
(Ishmael)
Decision Before Dawn
(Lt. Dick Rennick)
He Walked by Night
(Roy Martin / Roy Morgan)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
(Sayer of the Law)
Tension
(Warren Quimby)
Reign of Terror
(Maximilian Robespierre)
The Satan Bug
(Dr. Gregor Hoffman)
They've Killed President Lincoln!
(Host / Narrator)
Mansion of the Doomed
(Dr. Leonard Chaney)
The House on Telegraph Hill
(Alan Spender)
The Swindle
(Picasso)
Repeat Performance
(William Williams)
The Brothers Karamazov
(Ivan Karamazov)
Cry Wolf
(James Caldwell Demarest)
Titanic
(George S. Headley)
Time Limit
(Maj. Harry Cargill)
The Good Die Young
(Joe Halsey)
Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
(Wilton Knight)
Portrait in Black
(Howard Mason)
Fixed Bayonets!
(Cpl. Denno)
City Beneath the Sea
(The President)
Kings of the Sun
(Ah Min)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
(Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage))
21 Hours at Munich
(Willy Brandt)
Fourteen Hours
(Robert Cosick)
Outside the Wall
(Larry Nelson)
Sole Survivor
(Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner)
Canyon Crossroads
(Larry Kendall)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
(Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited))
Finger of Guilt
(Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson)
Miracles of Thursday
(Martino)
Rage
(Dr. Roy Caldwell)
Hitler
(Adolf Hitler)
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
(George Latimer)
The Great Bank Hoax
(Manny Benchly)
The Savage Guns
(Steve Fallon)
The Rebels
(Duke of Kentland)
Four Days In November
(Narrator (voice))
Flood!
(John Cutler)
Cartouche
(Il conte Jacques de Maudy)
Hans Brinker
(Dr. Boeker)
Visa to Canton
(Don Benton)
The Birdmen
(Schiller)
Roseanna McCoy
(Mounts Hatfield)
The Extra Day
(Joe Blake)
Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
(Narrator (voice))
Marilyn: The Untold Story
(Johnny Hyde)
The Yanks Are Coming
(Narrator (voice))
The Death of Me Yet
(Robert Barnes)
Maneater
(Carl Brenner)
The Stranger's Hand
(Joe Hamstringer)
Jons und Erdme
(Wittkuhn)
The Andersonville Trial
(Henry Wirz)
Five Branded Women
(Eric Reinhardt)
Jailbirds
(Doctor Stefano Luprandi)
Love Is a Funny Thing
(Acteur)
Land of Celtic Ghosts
(Himself)
Knight Rider: Halloween Knight
(Narrator)
The Golden Vein
(Ing. Stefano Manfredi)
Love and Troubles
(Paolo Martelli)
Time Travelers
(Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871))
Assignment: Munich
(Maj. Barney Caldwell)
The Ambitious One
(George Rancourt)
...And Millions Die!
(Dr Douglas Pruitt)
For the Love of Mike
(Father Phelan)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
(Narrator)
The Bounty Man
(Angus Keough)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(King Arthur)
Chato's Land
(Nye Buell)
Valley Forge
Trial at Nuremberg
(Narrator)
Planet Mars
(Narrator)
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
(Elliott Osborn)
Egypt: Quest for Eternity
(Narrator (Self))
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
(Self)
Columbo
(Nicholas Framer)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
(Adm. Harriman Nelson)
Little House on the Prairie
The Love Boat
(Stan Ellis)
Hawaii Five-O
(Murdock)
Knight Rider
(Wilton Knight)
Route 66
Tales of the Unexpected
(Slade)
The Streets of San Francisco
Naked City
(Lester Bergson)
Arrest and Trial
Gunsmoke
(Captain Aron Sligo)
Studio One
(Matt Donovan)
Combat!
(Capt. Steiner)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Conway)
Rawhide
(Tod Stone)
Vega$
Mr. Merlin
Ben Casey
W.E.B.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(David Manning)
Medical Story
Joe Forrester
The Twilight Zone
(Adam Cook)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(General Washington)
National Geographic Specials
(Narrator (voice))
Ironside
(Noel Seymour)
Masada
(Narrator)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
(Professor Andrew Kirkcastle)
The Critical List
(Matt Kinsella)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(Philip Townsend)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(Miles Crawford)
How the West Was Won
(Colonel Flint)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
(Reece Sutton)
Dan August
(Prof. Theodore Rye)