Spoiler : Basehart, Richard (birth name was John Richard Basehart) Born in Zanesville, Ohio 8/31/1914; died 9/17/1984 of a stin Los Angeles, California. Married to Stephanie Klein (1940-1950 her death), Italian actress Valentina Cortesa (1951-1960 divorced), Diana Lotery (1962-1984 his death). Basehart began his career as a radio announcer and ward politician, then spent five years at the Hedgerow Theatre. On New York stage winning the New York Critics Award for Hasty Heart. Screen debut playing James Caldwell Demarest in Cry Wolf (1947). Last feature movie was playing Vladimir Skrapinov in Being There (1979).

Spoiler : Radio debut introduced by Sydney Greenstreet on Hollywood Star Preview for NBC (1947), then was a guest star on many radio programs including the play, "Document A/777" that was presented on Columbia Presents Corwin for CBS in 1948.

Spoiler : Television actor from the middle 1950s to 1983. Television debut in the play, "So Soon To Die" on Playhouse 90 (1/17/1957). Admiral Harriman Nelson on Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea for ABC-TV (1964-1968). Narrator of The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich on ABC-TV (1968). Gus Dunlap on W.E.B. for NBC-TV (1978). Last television appearance was playing Wilton Knight in the 1982 movie, Knight Rider, the was narrator for the 1983 movie, The Crowded Life.

Spoiler : Basehart and his wife, Diana were the founders of Actors and Others for Animals organization in 1971. They had been driving on a freeway, and were appaled when someone threw a cat onto the roadway from a vehicle in front of them. Appaled that someone would do that, they vowed to begin helping unwanted animals. There is a theater named after him in Woodland Hills, California.

Spoiler : Happy Birthday to Richard Basehart

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