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Richard Basehart
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...
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Being There
Being There is a 1979 comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted from the 1971 novel written by Jerzy Kosiński. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard A. Dysart and Richard Basehart. Douglas won...
Escape of the Birdmen
Escape of the Birdmen (UK title The Birdmen) was a made for TV Action/Adventure movie filmed in 1971. The film was based on P.R. Reid's "ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ", which chronicled an actual POW escape attempt during WW2.
"They used to boast there were...
He Walked by Night
He Walked by Night (1948) is a black-and-white police procedural film noir, crediting Alfred L. Werker as director. In reality, most of the film was directed by western/film noir director Anthony Mann. The film, shot in semidocumentary tone, was...
Il bidone
Il bidone (English: The Swindle and The Swindlers) (1955) is an Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It features Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, among others.
Released one year after the director's internationally...
La Strada
La Strada (English: The Road) is a (1954) Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini in which a naive young woman (Giulietta Masina) is sold to a brutish man (Anthony Quinn) and goes on the road as a part of his itinerant show.
La Strada...
Tension
Tension (1950) is a crime thriller film noir directed by John Berry, and written by Allen Rivkin, based on a story written by John D. Klore. The drama features Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, and others.
A drugstore manager, Warren...
The Satan Bug
The Satan Bug (1965) is a science fiction film in which a US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain,...
Fourteen Hours
Fourteen Hours is a 1951 drama film, directed by Henry Hathaway, which tells the story of a New York police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the fifteenth floor a hotel.
This won critical acclaim for Richard...
Rage
Rage is a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, Lee Remick, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, Nicolas Beauvy, Paul Stevens, and Stephen Young.
While on a camping trip, Wyoming rancher Dan Logan (George C. Scott) and his son are...
Decision Before Dawn
Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 war film which tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II. It starred Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans...
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) is the second movie version of the H. G. Wells science fiction novel about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Barbara Carrera, and Richard Basehart....
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Time Limit
Time Limit is a 1957 courtroom drama film directed by actor Karl Malden, his only directing credit. In his autobiography, Malden stated that "he preferred being a good actor to being a fairly good director."
Army Colonel William Edwards (Richard...
Los jueves, milagro
Los jueves, milagro is a 1959 Spanish film.
Fixed Bayonets!
Fixed Bayonets! (1951) is a war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during the Korean War. It is Fuller's second film about the Korean War. In his motion picture debut, James Dean appears briefly in the...
Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror (also known as The Black Book) is a 1949 drama film set in the French Revolution. Plotters seek to bring down Maximilien Robespierre and end his bloodthirsty regime.
The House on Telegraph Hill
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) is a film noir starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan, directed by Robert Wise, and released by Twentieth Century Fox. Parts of the film were filmed on location in the Telegraph Hill...
Savage Guns
The Savage Guns (Spanish: Tierra brutal) is a 1961 Eurowestern film, a joint production by the United Kingdom and Spain. Based on a specially commissioned screenplay, The San Siado Killings, written by Peter R. Newman and directed by Michael...
The Good Die Young
The Good Die Young (1954) crime thriller made in the United Kingdom, featuring a number of American characters. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert.
Four men are seen in a car apparently about to commit a serious crime. How each of the previously law...
Sole Survivor
Sole Survivor (1970) is a TV movie written by Guerdon Trueblood and directed by Paul Stanley. It starred Richard Basehart, William Shatner, and Vince Edwards. The film is loosely based on the discovery, in 1959, of the remains of a B-24 Liberator...
Titanic
Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. Its plot is centered around an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912.
Mrs. Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck), who is at the...
