Richard Basehart
1914-08-13 ( 110 years old ) in 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.

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Los Angeles Plays Itself 2004-07-28
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller 2002-07-02
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet 1982-12-25
Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix 1982-09-26
Egypt: Quest for Eternity 1982-03-06
Marilyn: The Untold Story 1980-11-10
Being There 1979-12-19
Land of Celtic Ghosts 1979-10-15
The Rebels 1979-05-14
Planet Mars 1979-01-01
The Great Bank Hoax 1978-11-01
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1978-05-23
The Island of Dr. Moreau 1977-07-13
Flood! 1977-06-05
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? 1977-01-16
21 Hours at Munich 1976-12-25
Mansion of the Doomed 1976-10-01
Time Travelers 1976-03-19
Valley Forge 1975-12-03
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley 1975-01-12
Maneater 1973-12-09
The Birdmen 1973-11-08
...And Millions Die! 1973-01-01
Rage 1972-11-22
The Bounty Man 1972-10-31
Chato's Land 1972-05-25
Assignment: Munich 1972-04-30
The Death of Me Yet 1971-10-26
City Beneath the Sea 1971-07-16
They've Killed President Lincoln! 1971-02-12
The Andersonville Trial 1970-05-17
Sole Survivor 1970-01-09
Hans Brinker 1969-12-14
Love Is a Funny Thing 1969-12-12
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 1968-03-06
The Satan Bug 1965-03-26
Let My People Go: The Story of Israel 1965-01-01
Trial at Nuremberg 1964-12-09
Four Days In November 1964-10-07
Kings of the Sun 1963-12-18
The Yanks Are Coming 1963-11-04
Hitler 1962-03-21
The Savage Guns 1961-11-01
Visa to Canton 1960-12-26
For the Love of Mike 1960-08-28
Portrait in Black 1960-07-27
Five Branded Women 1960-03-15
The Ambitious One 1959-10-14
Jons und Erdme 1959-03-04
Love and Troubles 1958-12-19
The Brothers Karamazov 1958-02-20
Time Limit 1957-10-23
Miracles of Thursday 1957-08-22
Moby Dick 1956-06-27
Finger of Guilt 1956-06-01
The Extra Day 1956-01-01
The Swindle 1955-10-07
The Golden Vein 1955-09-30
Cartouche 1955-07-01
Canyon Crossroads 1955-01-01
La Strada 1954-09-23
Jailbirds 1954-09-18
The Good Die Young 1954-03-02
The Stranger's Hand 1954-01-20
Titanic 1953-04-11
Decision Before Dawn 1951-12-21
Fixed Bayonets! 1951-11-21
The House on Telegraph Hill 1951-05-12
Fourteen Hours 1951-04-01
Outside the Wall 1950-02-08
Tension 1949-11-25
Reign of Terror 1949-10-15
Roseanna McCoy 1949-10-12
He Walked by Night 1949-02-06
Cry Wolf 1947-08-19
Repeat Performance 1947-05-22

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