Richard Basehart

Hollywood Stars : John Richard Basehart

Born Name: John Richard Basehart Birthday: 1914-08-31 (Year-Month-Day) Website: Spouse(s): Stephanie Klein (m. 1940–1950) «start: (1940)–end+1: (1951)»"Marriage: Stephanie Klein to Richard Basehart" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Basehart) Valentina Cortese (m. 1951–1960) «start: (1951)–end+1: (1961)»"Marriage: Valentina Cortese to Richard Basehart" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Basehart) Diana Lotery (m. 1962–1984) «start: (1962)–end+1: (1985)»"Marriage: Diana Lotery to Richard Basehart" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Basehart) his death Children: Medium: Actor

Richard Basehart, 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 Wises 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 shows 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 CBSs 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.Basehart had also done a few movies made for TV 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.He had been married three times. After the death of his first wife Stephanie Klein, he wed Italian actress Valentina Cortese (whose name was spelled Cortesa in American films). After their divorce, Basehart married Diana Lotery, with whom he founded the charity Actors and Others for Animals.[edit] Legacy in popular cultureBasehart had a notable fan in the character of Gypsy from the cult cable television program Mystery Science Theater 3000.Basehart is mentioned in the song The Radio Is Broken on the 1983 Frank Zappa album The Man from Utopia.[edit] Partial filmographyRepeat Performance (1947)Cry Wolf (1947)He Walked by Night (1948)Roseanna McCoy (1949)Reign of Terror (1949)Tension (1950)Fourteen Hours (1951)The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)Fixed Bayonets! (1951)Decision Before Dawn (1951)Titanic (1953)The Good Die Young (1954)La strada (1954)Il bidone (1955), also known as The Swindle (US) and The Swindlers (UK)The Extra Day (1956)Moby Dick (1956)The Intimate Stranger (1956)Los jueves, milagro (1957)Time Limit (1957)The Brothers Karamazov (1958)Portrait in Black (1960)Savage Guns (1961)Hitler (1962)Kings of the Sun (1963)The Satan Bug (1965)Sole Survivor (1970, TV)The Andersonville Trial (1970, TV)Rage (1972)Columbo: Dagger of the Mind (1972, TV)Time Travelers (1976, TV)The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)Being There (1979)Knight Rider (1982)[edit] External linksBiography portalRichard Basehart at the Internet Movie DatabaseRichard Basehart at AllmovieRichard Basehart at the Internet Broadway DatabaseOfficial site, with biography and filmography.The Birdmen movie fan website, Information about the movie.Richard Basehart at Find a GravePersondataNameBasehart, RichardAlternative namesBasehart, John RichardShort descriptionActorDate of birthAugust 31, 1914Place of birthZanesville, Ohio, U.S.Date of deathSeptember 17, 1984Place of deathLos Angeles, California, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_BasehartCategories: American film actors | American television actors | Actors from Ohio | People from Zanesville, Ohio | Deaths from stroke | 1914 births | 1984 deathsHidden categories: Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschEspaГ±olSuomiFranГ§aisItalianoж—Ґжњ¬иЄћPolskiPortuguГЄs This page was last modified on 25 February 2011 at 17:16.Text is available under the Creative Commons 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