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John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914September 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. ==Career== One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaimed Italian film ''La Strada'' (1954), directed by Federico Fellini. He also appeared as the killer in the film noir classic ''He Walked by Night'' (1948), as a psychotic member of the Hatfield clan in ''Roseanna McCoy'' (1949), as Ishmael in ''Moby Dick'' (1956), and in the drama ''Decision Before Dawn'' (1951). He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son, the actor Jackie Basehart. They divorced in 1960. Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wise's ''The House on Telegraph Hill'' (1951). From 1964 to 1968, Basehart played the lead role, Admiral Harriman Nelson, on Irwin Allen's first foray into science-fiction television, ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''. Although Basehart started his career as a film actor, he reached a larger audience with his role in this series. Basehart was noted for his deep, distinctive voice and narrated a wide range of television and movie projects. In 1964, he narrated the David Wolper documentary about the Kennedy assassination, ''Four Days in November''. In 1980, Basehart narrated the mini-series written by Peter Arnett called ''Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War'' that covered Vietnam and its battles from the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 to the final American embassy evacuation on April 30, 1975. He appeared in the pilot episode of the television series ''Knight Rider'' as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the show's credits. Basehart starred as Adolf Hitler in the 1962 film of that name. In 1971, Basehart played "Captain Sligo", a comical Irishman with a pet buffalo who negotiates a flawed but legal cattle purchase and unconventionally courts a widow with two children, played by Salome Jens, in CBS's western series, ''Gunsmoke'', with James Arness. Basehart appeared in "Probe 7, Over and Out", an episode of ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in ''Little House on the Prairie'' in 1976. In 1972, he appeared in the ''Columbo'' episode "Dagger of the Mind' in which he and Honor Blackman played a husband-and-wife theatrical team who were loose parodies of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In the feature realm, he played a supporting role as a doctor in ''Rage'' (1972), a theatrical feature starring and directed by George C. Scott. He made a few TV movies including ''Sole Survivor'' (1970) and ''The Birdmen'' (1971). Both were based on true stories during World War II. In 1979, he appeared as a Russian diplomat with Peter Sellers in ''Being There''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Basehart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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