Actor
Richard Basehart
Biography

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 ...

Known For
Acting
2004 -- Los Angeles Plays Itself | Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)
2002 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982 -- Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet | Self
1982 -- Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix | Wilton Knight
1982 -- Egypt: Quest for Eternity | Narrator (Self)
1980 -- Marilyn: The Untold Story | Johnny Hyde
1979 -- Being There | Vladimir Skrapinov
1979 -- Land of Celtic Ghosts | Himself
1979 -- The Rebels | Duke of Kentland
1979 -- Planet Mars | Narrator
1978 -- The Great Bank Hoax | Manny Benchly
1978 -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | King Arthur
1977 -- The Island of Dr. Moreau | Sayer of the Law
1977 -- Flood! | John Cutler
1977 -- Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? | Elliott Osborn
1976 -- 21 Hours at Munich | Willy Brandt
1976 -- Mansion of the Doomed | Dr. Leonard Chaney
1976 -- Time Travelers | Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
1975 -- Valley Forge |
1975 -- Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley | George Latimer
1973 -- Maneater | Carl Brenner
1973 -- The Birdmen | Schiller
1973 -- ...And Millions Die! | Dr Douglas Pruitt
1972 -- Rage | Dr. Roy Caldwell
1972 -- The Bounty Man | Angus Keough
1972 -- Chato's Land | Nye Buell
1972 -- Assignment: Munich | Maj. Barney Caldwell
1971 -- The Death of Me Yet | Robert Barnes
1971 -- City Beneath the Sea | The President
1971 -- They've Killed President Lincoln! | Host / Narrator
1970 -- The Andersonville Trial | Henry Wirz
1970 -- Sole Survivor | Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner
1969 -- Hans Brinker | Dr. Boeker
1969 -- Love Is a Funny Thing | Acteur
1968 -- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Narrator
1965 -- The Satan Bug | Dr. Gregor Hoffman
1965 -- Let My People Go: The Story of Israel | Narrator (voice)
1964 -- Trial at Nuremberg | Narrator
1964 -- Four Days In November | Narrator (voice)
1963 -- Kings of the Sun | Ah Min
1963 -- The Yanks Are Coming | Narrator (voice)
1962 -- Hitler | Adolf Hitler
1961 -- The Savage Guns | Steve Fallon
1960 -- Visa to Canton | Don Benton
1960 -- For the Love of Mike | Father Phelan
1960 -- Portrait in Black | Howard Mason
1960 -- Five Branded Women | Eric Reinhardt
1959 -- The Ambitious One | George Rancourt
1959 -- Jons und Erdme | Wittkuhn
1958 -- Love and Troubles | Paolo Martelli
1958 -- The Brothers Karamazov | Ivan Karamazov
1957 -- Time Limit | Maj. Harry Cargill
1957 -- Miracles of Thursday | Martino
1956 -- Moby Dick | Ishmael
1956 -- Finger of Guilt | Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson
1956 -- The Extra Day | Joe Blake
1955 -- The Swindle | Picasso
1955 -- The Golden Vein | Ing. Stefano Manfredi
1955 -- Cartouche | Il conte Jacques de Maudy
1955 -- Canyon Crossroads | Larry Kendall
1954 -- La Strada | Il 'Matto'
1954 -- Jailbirds | Doctor Stefano Luprandi
1954 -- The Good Die Young | Joe Halsey
1954 -- The Stranger's Hand | Joe Hamstringer
1953 -- Titanic | George S. Headley
1951 -- Decision Before Dawn | Lt. Dick Rennick
1951 -- Fixed Bayonets! | Cpl. Denno
1951 -- The House on Telegraph Hill | Alan Spender
1951 -- Fourteen Hours | Robert Cosick
1950 -- Outside the Wall | Larry Nelson
1949 -- Tension | Warren Quimby
1949 -- Reign of Terror | Maximilian Robespierre
1949 -- Roseanna McCoy | Mounts Hatfield
1949 -- He Walked by Night | Roy Martin / Roy Morgan
1947 -- Cry Wolf | James Caldwell Demarest
1947 -- Repeat Performance | William Williams
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