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JOHN RICHARD BASEHART
He was an American movie actor.
August 31, 1914 (Zanesville, Ohio, USA) - September 17, 1984 (Los Angeles, California, USA).
His full name was John Richard.
Richard was born into a large family and spent his childhood in an orphanage as his mother died of complications after childbirth.
His father, Harry Basehart, was a newspaper reporter and was not able to work and take care of the newborn at the same time.
Richard Bayshart from the age of 12 began to work part-time and help the family, first at the newspaper, at the stock exchange. Along with his older brother, he worked for a municipal wastewater company.
After high school, he followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a news reporter for the newspaper.
From 1927 he was on the professional stage, from 1938 to 1942 he was an actor at the Hedgerow Theater in Philadelphia, where he quickly became a leading actor and performed roles in the modern and classical repertoire.
Since 1943 - on Broadway. In 1945 he won the New York theater critics award as the most promising actor of the year.
This success has brought Richard Bazhart invited to Hollywood, and in 1947 the actor first appears on the silver screen in the film "Repeat Performance" as the poet Williams.
He became famous for his performance as Robert Cosick in Garry Hathaway's thriller Fourteen Hours (1951, NBR Award, 1951).
After the death of his wife Stephanie Klein from a serious illness, Richard Basehart becomes the husband of Italian actress Valentina Cortese.
They had a son, the marriage was short - only a few years. But it was this marriage that brought Basehart to Italy and the actor received an invitation from Federico Fellini.
Richard Basehart played some of his best roles in The Road (Matto, 1954) and in the drama Fraud (Carlo, nicknamed Picasso, 1955).
From 1954 to 1960, starred in ten films in Italy and Germany, thanks to these roles Beishart became popular in Europe.
Among his acting successes are Ishmael in Moby Dick (1956, NBR Award, 1956), Major Harry Cargill in Time Limit (1957, nominated for a British Academy Award, 1958), Adolf Hitler in Huart Heistler's Hitler (1962), Admiral Hariman Nelson in the television series Journey to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968).
Beginning in the 1970s he was active in American television series, on the radio, the voice of Richard Basehart was heard at ceremonial events, in documentaries.
In 1984 the voice of Richard Basehart closed the Olympics-84 in Los Angeles. On the same day, the actor suffered several serious strokes and soon passed away.
Richard Basehart's star is installed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Nominated for a BAFTA (1957):
Best Foreign Actor ("Time Limit").
