
Actor
Born August 31, 1914 in Zanesville, Ohio, USA
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).

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Self

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
Wilton Knight

Knight Rider
Wilton Knight

Egypt: Quest for Eternity
Narrator (Self)

Mr. Merlin

Masada
Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)

Marilyn: The Untold Story
Johnny Hyde

Being There
Vladimir Skrapinov

Land of Celtic Ghosts
Himself

The Rebels
Duke of Kentland

Tales of the Unexpected
Slade

Planet Mars
Narrator

The Great Bank Hoax
Manny Benchly

Vega$

The Critical List
Matt Kinsella

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
King Arthur

The Love Boat
Stan Ellis

The Island of Dr. Moreau
Sayer of the Law

Flood!
John Cutler

How the West Was Won
Colonel Flint

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Elliott Osborn

21 Hours at Munich
Willy Brandt

Mansion of the Doomed
Dr. Leonard Chaney

Time Travelers
Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)

Valley Forge
Gen. Washington

Joe Forrester

Medical Story
Dr. Charles Galpin

Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
George Latimer

Little House on the Prairie
Hannibal Applewood

The First Woman President
Woodrow Wilson

Maneater
Carl Brenner

The Birdmen
Schiller

...and millions will die!
Dr Douglas Pruitt

Rage
Dr. Roy Caldwell

The Bounty Man
Angus Keough

The Streets of San Francisco
Bishop Tim Farrow

Chato's Land
Nye Buell

Assignment: Munich
Maj. Barney Caldwell

The Death of Me Yet
Robert Barnes

Columbo
Nicholas Framer

City Beneath the Sea
The President

They've Killed President Lincoln!
Host / Narrator

Dan August
Prof. Theodore Rye

The Andersonville Trial
Henry Wirz

Sole Survivor
Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner

Hans Brinker
Dr. Boeker

Love Is a Funny Thing
Acteur

Marcus Welby, M.D.
Professor Andrew Kirkcastle

Hawaii Five-O
Murdock

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Narrator

Ironside
Noel Seymour

Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls

National Geographic Specials
Narrator (voice)

The Satan Bug
Dr. Gregor Hoffman

Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
Narrator (voice)

Trial at Nuremberg
Narrator

Four Days In November
Narrator (voice)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Adm. Harriman Nelson

Kings of the Sun
Ah Min

Arrest and Trial

Combat!
Capt. Steiner

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Philip Townsend

Hitler
Adolf Hitler

The Savage Guns
Steve Fallon

Ben Casey

Visa to Canton
Don Benton

Route 66

For the Love of Mike
Father Phelan

Portrait in Black
Howard Mason

Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
Martin Lambert

Five Branded Women
Eric Reinhardt

The Ambitious One
George Rancourt

The Twilight Zone
Adam Cook

Jons und Erdme
Wittkuhn

Rawhide
Tod Stone

Love and Troubles
Paolo Martelli

Naked City
Lester Bergson

The Brothers Karamazov
Ivan Karamazov

Time Limit
Maj. Harry Cargill

Miracles of Thursday
Martino

So Soon to Die
Lionel Amblin

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
David Manning

Moby Dick
Ishmael

The Intimate Stranger
Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson

The Extra Day
Joe Blake

The Swindle
Carlo

The Golden Vein
Ing. Stefano Manfredi

Gunsmoke
Captain Aron Sligo

Cartouche
Il conte Jacques de Maudy

Canyon Crossroads
Larry Kendall

La Strada
Il 'Matto'

The Good Die Young
Joe Halsey

The Stranger's Hand
Joe Hamstringer

Titanic
George S. Headley

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Conway

Decision Before Dawn
Lt. Dick Rennick

Fixed Bayonets!
Cpl. Denno

The House on Telegraph Hill
Alan Spender

Fourteen Hours
Robert Cosick

Outside the Wall
Larry Nelson

Tension
Warren Quimby

Reign of Terror
Maximilian Robespierre

Roseanna McCoy
Mounts Hatfield

He Walked by Night
Roy Martin / Roy Morgan

Studio One
Matt Donovan

Cry Wolf
James Caldwell Demarest

Repeat Performance
William Williams