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....
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
Miracles of Thursday
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · Spain
Direction Luis García Berlanga
Cast José Isbert · Richard Basehart · Paolo Stoppa · Alberto Romea
7.3
5K 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