Richard Basehart: movies and TV shows
Richard Basehart has 114 credits in the archive: 78 films and 36 TV series, from 1947 to 2002. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1947 – 2002 · busiest year: 1951 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 87 |
| 1982 | Knight Rider | Wilton Knight | TV | 7.5 | 67 |
| 1982 | Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix | Wilton Knight | Film | 5.0 | 67 |
| 1982 | Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet | Self | Film | 9.0 | 67 |
| 1982 | Egypt: Quest for Eternity | Narrator (Self) | Film | 6.8 | 67 |
| 1981 | Mr. Merlin | TV | 5.5 | 66 | |
| 1981 | Masada | Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited) | TV | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1980 | Marilyn: The Untold Story | Johnny Hyde | Film | 6.9 | 65 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Slade | TV | 6.8 | 64 |
| 1979 | Being There | Vladimir Skrapinov | Film | 7.6 | 64 |
| 1979 | The Rebels | Duke of Kentland | TV | 10.0 | 64 |
| 1979 | Land of Celtic Ghosts | Himself | Film | — | 64 |
| 1979 | Planet Mars | Narrator | Film | — | 64 |
| 1978 | Vega$ | TV | 6.9 | 63 | |
| 1978 | The Critical List | Matt Kinsella | TV | 9.0 | 63 |
| 1978 | The Great Bank Hoax | Manny Benchly | Film | 5.0 | 63 |
| 1978 | W.E.B. | TV | 6.0 | 63 | |
| 1978 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | King Arthur | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1977 | The Love Boat | Stan Ellis | TV | 6.3 | 62 |
| 1977 | How the West Was Won | Colonel Flint | TV | 7.0 | 62 |
| 1977 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | Sayer of the Law | Film | 5.7 | 62 |
| 1977 | Flood! | John Cutler | Film | 5.1 | 62 |
| 1977 | Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? | Elliott Osborn | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1976 | Time Travelers | Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871) | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 1976 | 21 Hours at Munich | Willy Brandt | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 1976 | Mansion of the Doomed | Dr. Leonard Chaney | Film | 6.3 | 61 |
| 1975 | Joe Forrester | TV | 7.0 | 60 | |
| 1975 | Medical Story | Dr. Charles Galpin | TV | 5.0 | 60 |
| 1975 | Valley Forge | Gen. Washington | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1975 | Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley | George Latimer | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie | Hannibal Applewood | TV | 7.9 | 59 |
| 1974 | The First Woman President | Woodrow Wilson | Film | — | 59 |
| 1973 | ...and millions will die! | Dr Douglas Pruitt | Film | 5.2 | 58 |
| 1973 | Maneater | Carl Brenner | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1973 | The Birdmen | Schiller | Film | 7.7 | 58 |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | Bishop Tim Farrow | TV | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1972 | Assignment: Munich | Maj. Barney Caldwell | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1972 | Chato's Land | Nye Buell | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1972 | Rage | Dr. Roy Caldwell | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 1972 | The Bounty Man | Angus Keough | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1971 | Columbo | Nicholas Framer | TV | 8.1 | 56 |
| 1971 | City Beneath the Sea | The President | Film | 4.5 | 56 |
| 1971 | The Death of Me Yet | Robert Barnes | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1971 | They've Killed President Lincoln! | Host / Narrator | Film | — | 56 |
| 1970 | Dan August | Prof. Theodore Rye | TV | 7.2 | 55 |
| 1970 | The Andersonville Trial | Henry Wirz | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 1970 | Sole Survivor | Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Professor Andrew Kirkcastle | TV | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Reece Sutton | TV | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1969 | Love Is a Funny Thing | Acteur | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1969 | Hans Brinker | Dr. Boeker | Film | 6.9 | 54 |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Murdock | TV | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1968 | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 53 |
| 1967 | Ironside | Noel Seymour | TV | 6.9 | 52 |
| 1967 | Jacqueline Susann and the Valley of the Dolls | Film | 8.0 | 52 | |
| 1965 | National Geographic Specials | Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1965 | Let My People Go: The Story of Israel | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 50 |
| 1965 | The Satan Bug | Dr. Gregor Hoffman | Film | 6.1 | 50 |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Adm. Harriman Nelson | TV | 7.8 | 49 |
| 1964 | Four Days In November | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1964 | Trial at Nuremberg | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | TV | 8.3 | 48 | |
| 1963 | Kings of the Sun | Ah Min | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1963 | The Yanks Are Coming | Narrator (voice) | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Philip Townsend | TV | 7.8 | 47 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Miles Crawford | TV | 7.8 | 47 |
| 1962 | Combat! | Capt. Steiner | TV | 7.8 | 47 |
| 1962 | Hitler | Adolf Hitler | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | TV | 5.9 | 46 | |
| 1961 | The Savage Guns | Steve Fallon | Film | 5.0 | 46 |
| 1960 | Route 66 | TV | 6.7 | 45 | |
| 1960 | Portrait in Black | Howard Mason | Film | 5.7 | 45 |
| 1960 | Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place | Martin Lambert | Film | — | 45 |
| 1960 | Five Branded Women | Eric Reinhardt | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1960 | Visa to Canton | Don Benton | Film | 5.0 | 45 |
| 1960 | For the Love of Mike | Father Phelan | Film | 6.0 | 45 |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Adam Cook | TV | 8.5 | 44 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Tod Stone | TV | 7.2 | 44 |
| 1959 | Jons und Erdme | Wittkuhn | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 1959 | The Ambitious One | George Rancourt | Film | 7.8 | 44 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Lester Bergson | TV | 5.7 | 43 |
| 1958 | The Brothers Karamazov | Ivan Karamazov | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1958 | Love and Troubles | Paolo Martelli | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1957 | Time Limit | Maj. Harry Cargill | Film | 7.2 | 42 |
| 1957 | So Soon to Die | Lionel Amblin | Film | 7.0 | 42 |
| 1957 | Miracles of Thursday | Martino | Film | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | David Manning | TV | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1956 | Moby Dick | Ishmael | Film | 7.1 | 41 |
| 1956 | The Intimate Stranger | Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1956 | The Extra Day | Joe Blake | Film | 7.1 | 41 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Captain Aron Sligo | TV | 6.7 | 40 |
| 1955 | The Golden Vein | Ing. Stefano Manfredi | Film | 6.7 | 40 |
| 1955 | The Swindle | Carlo | Film | 7.3 | 40 |
| 1955 | Canyon Crossroads | Larry Kendall | Film | 6.3 | 40 |
| 1955 | Cartouche | Il conte Jacques de Maudy | Film | 5.8 | 40 |
| 1954 | La Strada | Il 'Matto' | Film | 7.9 | 39 |
| 1954 | The Stranger's Hand | Joe Hamstringer | Film | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young | Joe Halsey | Film | 6.4 | 39 |
| 1954 | Jailbirds | Doctor Stefano Luprandi | Film | 5.5 | 39 |
| 1953 | Titanic | George S. Headley | Film | 6.6 | 38 |
| 1951 | Fourteen Hours | Robert Cosick | Film | 7.3 | 36 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Conway | TV | 8.8 | 36 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | General Washington | TV | 8.8 | 36 |
| 1951 | Fixed Bayonets! | Cpl. Denno | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1951 | Decision Before Dawn | Lt. Dick Rennick | Film | 6.8 | 36 |
| 1951 | The House on Telegraph Hill | Alan Spender | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1950 | Outside the Wall | Larry Nelson | Film | 6.1 | 35 |
| 1949 | He Walked by Night | Roy Martin / Roy Morgan | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1949 | Reign of Terror | Maximilian Robespierre | Film | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1949 | Roseanna McCoy | Mounts Hatfield | Film | 6.1 | 34 |
| 1949 | Tension | Warren Quimby | Film | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Matt Donovan | TV | 5.4 | 33 |
| 1947 | Repeat Performance | William Williams | Film | 6.1 | 32 |
| 1947 | Cry Wolf | James Caldwell Demarest | Film | 6.1 | 32 |