Richard Basehart
Highest Rated: 100% Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Lowest Rated: 25% The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Birthday: Aug 31, 1914
Birthplace: Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Entered film by way of Broadway in 1947, making his mark in the gritty "He Walked by Night" (1948) and proving his versatility in several international productions, notably Federico Fellini's poignant masterpiece "La Strada" (1954). He garnered secondary fame as the star of the Irwin Allen-produced "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (ABC, 1964-1968), playing a subamire captain. Basehart's second wife was actress Valentina Cortese.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Knight Rider | Narrator | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Masada | Narrator | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bix | Narrator | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marilyn: The Untold Story | Johnny Hyde (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 95% | 92% | Being There | Vladimir Skrapinov (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Critical List | Matt Kinsella (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Killed the Centerfold Model? | Elliott Osborn (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | The Great Bank Hoax | Manny Benchly (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 54% | 40% | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Sayer of the Law (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? | Elliott Osborn (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Flood! | John Cutler (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | 21 Hours at Munich | Chancellor Willy Brandt (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Mansion of the Doomed | Dr. Leonard Chaney (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Time Travelers | Dr. Joshua Henderson (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley | George Latimer (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Valley Forge | Gen. George Washington (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maneater | Carl Brenner (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And Millions Will Die | Dr. Douglas Pruitt (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Treasure Galleons | Director | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pieces of Eight | Narrator | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | The Bounty Man | Angus Keough (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Rage | Dr. Roy Caldwell (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Chato's Land | Nye Buell (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Assignment: Munich | Maj. Barney Caldwell (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Columbo: Dagger of the Mind | Nicholas Frame (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape of the Birdmen | Schiller (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | City Beneath the Sea | The President (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Death of Me Yet | Robert Barnes (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Hollywood Television Theatre | Unknown (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates | Dr. Boekman (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sole Survivor | Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Narrator | - | 1968 |
| 50% | 43% | The Satan Bug | Dr. Gregor Hoffman (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Four Days in November | Narrator | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Kings of the Sun | Ah Min (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Hitler | Adolf Hitler (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Savage Guns | Steve Fallon (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Passport to China | Don Benton (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 40% | 54% | Portrait in Black | Howard Mason (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For the Love of Mike | Father Phelan (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Branded Women | Capt. Reinhardt (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shangri-La | Hugh Conway (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 25% | 57% | The Brothers Karamazov | Ivan Karamazov (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Time Limit | Maj. Harry Cargill (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miracles of Thursday | Martino (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So Soon to Die |
Himself/ |
- | 1957 |
| 83% | 73% | Moby Dick | Ishmael (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Finger of Guilt | Reginald `'Reggie'` Wilson (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Extra Day | Joe Blake (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Canyon Crossroads | Larry Kendall (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 100% | 79% | Il bidone | Picasso (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 97% | 93% | La Strada | Il 'Matto'-The 'Fool' (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Stranger's Hand | Joe Hamstringer (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Good Die Young | Joe Halsey (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cartouche | Jacques de Maudy (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 92% | 65% | Titanic | George Healey (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 71% | 73% | Fourteen Hours | Robert Cosick (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 73% | Decision Before Dawn | Lt. Dick Rennick (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | The House on Telegraph Hill | Alan Spender (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 71% | Fixed Bayonets! | Cpl. Denno (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outside the Wall | Larry Nelson (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Roseanna McCoy | Mounts Hatfield (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Tension | Warren Quimby (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Black Book | Maximilian Robespierre (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 78% | 62% | He Walked by Night |
Roy Martin/ |
- | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Repeat Performance | William Williams (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Cry Wolf | James Caldwell Demarest (Character) | - | 1947 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Slade (Character) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Knight Rider | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How the West Was Won | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Little House on the Prairie | Hannibal Applewood (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Bishop Tim Farrow (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joe Forrester | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Columbo | Nicholas Frame (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Gunsmoke | Captain Aron Sligo (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Prof. Theodore Rye (Guest Star) | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Adm. Harriman Nelson (Character) | 1964-1968 |
| 84% | 95% | The Twilight Zone | Adam Cook (Character) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1962-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Mark Cassidy (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Julian Roebuck (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |