Cast: Richard Basehart

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Richard Basehart. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


La Strada

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Aldo Silvani

Plot Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampanò ill-treats her....

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8.2

12K votes

8.2

12K votes

The Swindlers

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Broderick Crawford · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Franco Fabrizi

Plot Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

7.3

5K votes

Moby Dick

1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Huston

Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice

Plot The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

7.3

9K votes

7.3

9K votes

Being There

1979 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Peter Sellers · Shirley MacLaine · Melvyn Douglas · Jack Warden

Plot This profound and humorous commentary on the pervasive effects of television features Peter Sellers, who portrays Chance the gardener, a man who views the world as he would TV -...

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

Side Street

1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Farley Granger · Cathy O'Donnell · James Craig · Paul Kelly

Plot Joe Norson (Farley Granger), a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, Ellen (Cathy O'Donnell), yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers...

7.0

279 votes

7.0

279 votes

Time Limit

1957 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Karl Malden

Cast Richard Widmark · Richard Basehart · Dolores Michaels · June Lockhart

Plot Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently...

6.9

229 votes

6.9

229 votes

Tension

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Richard Basehart · Audrey Totter · Cyd Charisse · Barry Sullivan

Plot Warren Quimby, mad about his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Claire, plans to murder her lover, Barney Deager. He creates another identity so that when he commits the murder he will...

6.9

159 votes

6.9

159 votes

The Intimate Stranger

1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey · Alec C. Snowden

Cast Richard Basehart · Mary Murphy · Constance Cummings · Roger Livesey

Plot A married movie studio executive's life, starts to fall apart when he is intimately stalked by a beautiful woman he claims he does not know.

6.8

39 votes

6.8

39 votes

Fourteen Hours (14 Hours)

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Paul Douglas · Richard Basehart · Barbara Bel Geddes · Debra Paget

Plot A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a...

6.8

253 votes

6.8

253 votes

The Brothers Karamazov

1958 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Plot This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Allen · Jus Addiss · Jerry Hopper · Sobey Martin

Cast Richard Basehart · David Hedison · Robert Dowdell · Del Monroe

Plot Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen,...

6.8

251 votes

6.8

251 votes

Decision Before Dawn

1951 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Richard Basehart · Gary Merrill · Oskar Werner · Hildegard Knef

Plot WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of...

6.7

190 votes

6.7

190 votes

He Walked By Night

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker · Anthony Mann

Cast Richard Basehart · Scott Brady · Roy Roberts · Whit Bissell

Plot This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

6.6

412 votes

6.6

412 votes

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Richard Basehart · Valentina Cortese · William Lundigan · Fay Baker

Plot Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "son" just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving...

6.5

449 votes

6.5

449 votes

Repeat Performance

1947 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Leslie · Virginia Field · Tom Conway

Plot Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun. We don't know how or why. All we know is men are banging on her door...

6.4

28 votes

6.4

28 votes

Columbo: Dagger of the Mind (TV)

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Peter Falk · Richard Basehart · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Bernard Fox

Plot Lilian Stanhope and Nicholas Frame are two actors in London. They have to act in Macbeth and the producer is Sir Roger Haversham who is Lilian's lover. Sir Roger finds...

6.4

301 votes

6.4

301 votes

The Good Die Young

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Laurence Harvey · Gloria Grahame · Richard Basehart · Joan Collins

Plot Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted...

6.4

67 votes

6.4

67 votes

The Twilight Zone: Probe 7, Over and Out (TV)

1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Ted Post

Cast Richard Basehart · Antoinette Bower · Barton Heyman · Harold Gould

Plot Colonel Cook stranded on another planet with no hope for rescue meets a woman who is the sole survivor from another planet.

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 votes

Titanic

1953 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Clifton Webb · Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Wagner · Audrey Dalton

Plot Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes