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 acr ... obat 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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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Adm. Harriman Nelson
Episodes: 110
First Aired: Sep 14, 1964
Masada
as Narrator
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Apr 05, 1981
Studio One
as Matt Donovan
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 07, 1948
Combat!
as Capt. Steiner
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 02, 1962
The Critical List
as Matt Kinsella
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 11, 1978
Columbo
as Nicholas Framer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1971
The Love Boat
as Stan Ellis
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1977
Hawaii Five-O
as Murdock
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1968
Knight Rider
as Wilton Knight
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1982
Tales of the Unexpected
as Slade
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 24, 1979
Naked City
as Lester Bergson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 1958
Gunsmoke
as Captain Aron Sligo
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Conway
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
Rawhide
as Tod Stone
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as David Manning
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
The Twilight Zone
as Adam Cook
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1959
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as General Washington
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
National Geographic Specials
as Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1965
Ironside
as Noel Seymour
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 28, 1967
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Professor Andrew Kirkcastle
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1969
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Philip Townsend
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Miles Crawford
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1962
How the West Was Won
as Colonel Flint
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 06, 1977
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Reece Sutton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1969
Dan August
as Prof. Theodore Rye
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1970
W.E.B.
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Sep 13, 1978
Little House on the Prairie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 11, 1974
Route 66
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1960
The Streets of San Francisco
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1972
Arrest and Trial
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1963
Vega$
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1978
Mr. Merlin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1981
Ben Casey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1961
Medical Story
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 04, 1975
Joe Forrester
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 09, 1975
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