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Richard Basehart

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Nascimento
31 de agosto de 1914 · Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Falecimento
17 de setembro de 1984

Biografia

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.

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Pôster de A Super Máquina
A Super Máquina
Série · 1982 · ★ 7,5
Pôster de A Estrada da Vida
A Estrada da Vida
Filme · 1954 · ★ 7,9
Pôster de Muito Além do Jardim
Muito Além do Jardim
Filme · 1979 · ★ 7,6
Pôster de Além da Imaginação
Além da Imaginação
Série · 1959 · ★ 8,5
Pôster de Os Pioneiros
Os Pioneiros
Série · 1974 · ★ 8,0
Pôster de Columbo
Columbo
Série · 1971 · ★ 8,1
Pôster de Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Filme · 1956 · ★ 7,1
Pôster de A Trapaça
A Trapaça
Filme · 1955 · ★ 7,3
Pôster de O Barco do Amor
O Barco do Amor
Série · 1977 · ★ 6,2
Pôster de A Ilha do Dr Moreau
A Ilha do Dr Moreau
Filme · 1977 · ★ 5,7
Pôster de Renegado Impiedoso
Renegado Impiedoso
Filme · 1972 · ★ 6,6
Pôster de Havaí Cinco-0
Havaí Cinco-0
Série · 1969 · ★ 7,2

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