Richard Basehart
Date of Birth: 31 Aug 1914
Country: USA
Biography: Richard Basehart came to Hollywood in 1947, after beginning an acting career on Broadway. He made his mark in the gritty film-noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), among others, and proved his versatility in several international productions, most notably in Federico Fellini's poignant masterpiece Michi (1954). Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Admiral Nelson in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964).
Total Credits at Criticker: 63 (Actor)
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- Death from the Past (1967) - S3 E16
- The Silent Saboteurs (1965) - S2 E10
- The Long Way Home: Part 1 (1963) - S2 E4
- The Long Way Home: Part 2 (1963) - S2 E5
- The Black Curtain (1962) - S1 E9
- Starring the Defense (1963) - S2 E7
Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampano, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road (La Strada)
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Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity. (imdb)
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Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray... (imdb)
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After Pardon Chato, a mestizo, killed a US marshal in self-defense, a posse pursues him, but as the white volunteers advance deep in Indian territory they become more hunted then prey, leading to internal strife. They rape Chato's woman, and are hunted down to the last man by the unrelenting warrior. (IMDb)
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This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop. (imdb)
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A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings. (imdb)
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The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. (imdb)
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WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters... (imdb)
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A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of that. (imdb)
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Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg. (imdb)
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The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity. (imdb)
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A germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the nasty germs has gotten free and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen. (imdb)
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Colditz: Escape of the Birdmen (1971) - TV Movie
During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in a high alpine castle on the German-Swiss border. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity... (imdb)
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A mousy drugstore manager turns killer after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered her new boyfriend. Things take an unexpected turn when someone else commits the murder first and he becomes the prime suspect. (imdb)
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Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer is a lone, swaggering sergeant whom the partisans briskly emasculate. Escorted out of town by the sheepish Nazis, the forlorn ladies link up, patriotically and romantically, with a band of tough mountain guerrillas. Directed by Martin Ritt ("Norma Rae"). (imdb)
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Sole Survivor (1970) - TV Movie
This story is loosely based on the discovery of the B-24 "Liberator" bomber the "Lady Be Good" that was found in the Libyan desert after the crew got lost on their 1st bombing mission to Italy. (imdb)
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Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "son" just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving a lot of money to be inherited. Victoria falls in love with the boy's trustee Alan Spender, and they move into the mansion on Telegraph Hill. She then learns that Alan and his lover, the boy's governess Margaret, murdered an aunt and are planning the same for her. (imdb)
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Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan. Since Quinn is her husband's physician, the murder is easily committed, but blackmail, guilt and suspicion are the unanticipated results. (imdb)
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A Mayan tribe emigrates northward but has to fight off Native Americans. (TCM.com)
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Time Travelers (1976) - TV Movie
Two researchers travel back in time, trying to rescue a cure for a modern-day epidemic, but their plans go astray when their time travel brings them to Chicago not a week but a single day before the Great Chicago Fire. (imdb)
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21 Hours at Munich (1976) - TV Movie
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. (imdb)
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A pilot slips his plane into Red China to rescue an American girl trapped there, but when he lands he discovers that the girl has a surprise for him--she wants him to fill his plane with Chinese refugees and fly them out of the country, too. (imdb)
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In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. (imdb)
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A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family. (TCM.com)
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Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing Edwards to move this case to court martial, Edwards becomes convinced of Cargill's innocence. (imdb)
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The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state. (imdb)
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Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted by Miles Ravenscourt, an amoral "gentleman." Because they need money, they let Miles lure them into his scheme to rob a postal van with a large cash cargo. (imdb)
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An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence. (imdb)
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An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused. (imdb)
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The Andersonville Trial (1970) - TV Movie
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia. (imdb)
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Sheila Page, a Broadway star, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her Producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different. (imdb)
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Blackmail threatens an American filmmaker's attempts to rebuild his career in England. (TCM.com)
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The screenplay by John Collier, based on the 1947 novel of the same title by Alberta Hannum, is a romanticized and semi-fictionalized account of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. (Wikipedia)
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Flood! (1976) - TV Movie
After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is short from running over. However the mayor refuses to open it's gates, because he fears for the fishes in the lake... and paves the way for disaster. (imdb)
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When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves. (imdb)
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The film takes place in a small valley in the Mexican state of Sonora, near the Arizona Territory, around 1870. Steve Fallon, a drifter and gun-for-hire, is seriously wounded while on the trail and is found by Mike Summers and his wife, Franchea. He is taken into their home and, while recovering, he learns that a local land baron, Ortega, is pressuring local ranchers to sell their land to him with the help of Danny Pose and his gang of outlaws. (en.wikipedia.org)
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An Italian comedy film which switches between the stories of three couples on the same day.
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A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits, joins forces with a girl and her father to search for the mineral. When the father is hurt in an accident, daughter and engineer continue the project, aided by a Native American guide. Unbeknownst to the group, a reputable citizen of the town, really of low moral value, is shadowing themi, his intention, to jump their claim. (imdb)
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Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger. There is a $1,000,000 robbery of an armored car, and one of the robbery gang turns up at the sanitarium. (imdb)
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The Rebels (1979) - TV Movie
Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) takes part in the american revolution and the newly formed congress. (imdb)
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The Bounty Man (1972) - TV Movie
Two rival bounty hunters are after the same killer, but find they have to join together to fight off his gang. (imdb)
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This routine drama about love, betrayal, and ambition stars Richard Basehart as Georges, the spineless husband of Dominique (Andrea Parisy) a woman who has enough ambition for the both of them. Edmond O'Brien is the unfortunate boss who has allowed some deeds on valuable Tahitian phosphate mines to lapse. While the wife keeps the boss distracted with a series of sexual encounters, she also convinces her husband to transfer the deeds to their names. (allrovi.com)
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Assignment: Munich (1972) - TV Movie
Undercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune. (imdb)
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In order to bring back the tourists to the village, their inhabitants organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas. (Written by Pablo Montoya (imdb)
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Jacques de Maudy, the son of a sick nobleman, returns to France to try and clear his name from a framed-up crime. He avoids the traps sets for him and, with the aid of an actors' troupe, gathers the evidence against the true guilty party. The governor declares him innocent and his fortune and titles are returned to him. (imdb)
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The Death of Me Yet (1971) - TV Movie
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him. (imdb)
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The final scene of a film has been lost and the extras have to be rounded up for it to be re-shot. (imdb)
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From more than eight million feet of newsreels, amateur footage, tape-recordings and more, David L. Wolper presents a priceless detailed account of the time and events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. (imdb)
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A young Indian boy trains a horse for an important race, hoping to win enough money to build a shrine for his village. (imdb)
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Stanley Kramer, a director known for his socially pointed films, tackles yet another political topic with Judgement: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley. This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. The cast includes Harrison Ford, Richard Basehart, and Tony Musante. (allmovie.com)
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Filming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other. (imdb)
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Maneater (1973) - TV Movie
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer. (imdb)
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Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) - TV Movie
The story of how Norma Jean, once an orphan in Hollywood California, becomes Marilyn Monroe, the movie star and celebrity. The movie begins with Norma Jean as a child and ends with the mysterious way she dies. Throughout the movie, we see the highlights and lowlights of her career, including the parts of her private life not widely known. (imdb)
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And Millions Die! (1973) - TV Movie
Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler is an expert in germ warfare living in Hong Kong. In order to maintain his rich lifestyle he does a deal to provide terrorists them with a lethal gas. To protect himself he plants a timebomb in a Hong Kong sewer along with a large sample of his wares. When things don't go to plan the police find themselves in a desperate search to prevent it from detonating. (imdb)
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Knight Rider (1982) - TV Series
A lone crimefighter battles the forces of evil with the help of an indestructible and artificially intelligent supercar. (imdb)
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) - TV Series
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Three prisoners are discharged from jail: Stefano Luprandi, a surgeon accused of murdering a patient by doing an unauthorized surgery, Giuseppe Rasi, unjustly processed for robbery, and Franco Cesari, a thief.
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Valley Forge (1975) - TV Movie
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War. (imdb)
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Giotto (1969) - Short Film
Deals with the works of the artist Giotto, contrasting the hieratic mood of his predecessors with his innovations. Shows the major cycles of his frescoes, including those at the Upper and Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, the Scrovegni family Arena Chapel in Padua, and St. Croce in Florence.
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Combat! (1962) - TV Series
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) - TV Series
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