Richard Basehart

...trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the fifteenth floor a hotel. This won critical acclaim for Richard Basehart, who portrayed the mentally disturbed man on the building ledge. Paul Douglas played the officer,...

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...Western. The film was noticeably set apart from previous "classic" American westerns starring an American leading cast (Richard Basehart, Don Taylor and Alex Nicol) and Spanish actors in supporting roles (Jose Manuel Martin, Paquita...

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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...

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...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 Quimby (Richard...

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...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 Christian Blech. The movie was adapted by Jack Rollens (uncredited)...

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...US career she starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960. She was...

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...in the title - but have been unable to locate it. A: You are looking for "Sole Survivor," a 1970 TV movie starring Richard Basehart and William Shatner. (There is also a "Twilight Zone" episode called "King 9 Will Not Return" with a...

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...with the same title - was released on DVD, and I have seen it for sale at Moviesunlimited.com. Q: What can you tell me about Richard Basehart of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"? When was he born and when did he die? Was he also in "Knight...

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MGM attempted to broaden her range, and her first star billing came in a low-budget drama, "Tension" (1949), with Richard Basehart. But her straight acting was never widely accepted by the public or the critics, who tended to focus...

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: Directed by Samuel Fuller and based on John Brophy's novel, this excellent Korean War drama centers on an Army corporal (Richard Basehart) who unwillingly assumes command of a platoon of grunts who must defend a snow-capped mountain...

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