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Born · August 13, 1914
Died · September 17, 1984 (70 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Zanesville, Ohio, USA
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.
Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)
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Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2002
Narrator
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1985
Self
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1982
Wilton Knight
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1982
Wilton Knight · (1 episode)
7.5
1982
Narrator (Self)
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1982
(1 episode)
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1981
Narrator · (4 episodes)
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1981
Johnny Hyde
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1980
Vladimir Skrapinov
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1979
Himself
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1979
Duke of Kentland
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1979
Slade · (1 episode)
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1979
Narrator
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1979
Manny Benchly
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1978
(1 episode)
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1978
(8 episodes)
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1978
Matt Kinsella · (2 episodes)
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1978
King Arthur
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1978
Stan Ellis · (1 episode)
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1977
Sayer of the Law
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1977
John Cutler
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1977
Colonel Flint · (1 episode)
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1977
Elliott Osborn
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1977
Willy Brandt
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1976
Dr. Leonard Chaney
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1976
Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
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1976
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1975
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1975
George Latimer
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1975
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Carl Brenner
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1973
Schiller
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1973
Dr Douglas Pruitt
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1973
Dr. Roy Caldwell
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1972
Angus Keough
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1972
Bishop Tim Farrow · (1 episode)
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1972
Nye Buell
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1972
Maj. Barney Caldwell
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1972
Robert Barnes
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1971
Nicholas Framer · (1 episode)
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1971
The President
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1971
Host / Narrator
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1971
Prof. Theodore Rye · (1 episode)
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1970
Henry Wirz
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1970
Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner
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1970
Dr. Boeker
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1969
Acteur
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1969
Professor Andrew Kirkcastle · (1 episode)
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1969
Reece Sutton · (1 episode)
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1969
Murdock · (1 episode)
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1968
Narrator
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1968
Noel Seymour · (1 episode)
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Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
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1965
Dr. Gregor Hoffman
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1965
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1965
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Narrator (voice)
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1964
Adm. Harriman Nelson · (110 episodes)
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1964
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1963
Narrator (voice)
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1963
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1963
Capt. Steiner · (2 episodes)
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Philip Townsend · (1 episode)
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1962
Miles Crawford · (1 episode)
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1962
Adolf Hitler
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1962
Steve Fallon
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1961
(1 episode)
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1961
Don Benton
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1960
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1960
Father Phelan
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1960
Howard Mason
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1960
Eric Reinhardt
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1960
George Rancourt
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1959
Adam Cook · (1 episode)
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1959
Wittkuhn
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1959
Tod Stone · (1 episode)
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1959
Paolo Martelli
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1958
Lester Bergson · (1 episode)
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1958
Ivan Karamazov
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1958
Maj. Harry Cargill
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1957
Martino
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1957
David Manning · (1 episode)
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1956
Ishmael
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1956
Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson
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1956
Joe Blake
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1956
Picasso
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1955
Ing. Stefano Manfredi
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1955
Captain Aron Sligo · (1 episode)
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1955
Il conte Jacques de Maudy
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1955
Larry Kendall
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1955
Il 'Matto'
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1954
Doctor Stefano Luprandi
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1954
Joe Halsey
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1954
Joe Hamstringer
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1954
George S. Headley
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1953
Conway · (1 episode)
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1951
General Washington · (1 episode)
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1951
Lt. Dick Rennick
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1951
Cpl. Denno
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1951
Alan Spender
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1951
Robert Cosick
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1951
Larry Nelson
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1950
Warren Quimby
6.8
1949
Maximilian Robespierre
6.9
1949
Mounts Hatfield
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1949
Roy Martin / Roy Morgan
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1949
Matt Donovan · (2 episodes)
4.7
1948
James Caldwell Demarest
5.9
1947
William Williams
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1947