Richard Basehart

Acting

Richard Basehart

Born 1914-08-31 Zanesville, Ohio, USA 79 films

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…

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Filmography

79 films
Save the Panda poster

High in the bamboo-forested mountain ranges of central China live the elusive and endangered giant…

Save the Panda

★ 10.0 1983

Being There poster

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old…

Being There

★ 7.6 1979

Planet Mars poster

This film discusses what had been learned about the planet Mars from Earth-based telescopes, observ…

Planet Mars

★ 0.0 1979