Richard Basehart
27 titles
Filmography
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He Walked by Night
(1949)Police try to track down an elusive thief and cop killer who seemingly vanishes into thin air. Can they catch him before he murders again?

Decision Before Dawn
(1951)Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill star in this stirring 1951 Best Picture Oscar Nominee about a risky, radical plan wherein the Allies attempt to employ German POWs as spies!

Fixed Bayonets!
(1951)The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity.

Miracles of Thursday
(1957)
The Intimate Stranger
(1956)A married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.
Hitler
(1962)Richard Basehart delivers an incendiary performance as history's most notorious madman in this searing exposé of the private life of Adolf Hitler. A semi-factual account of the Führer's rise and fall, this rarely seen film follows Hitler's political career from the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 to his suicide in a Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Inspired by a 1959 interview with a woman who claimed to be his lover, Hitler mixes historical fact with the theory that impotence and an Oedipal complex fueled the Führer's psychotic quest for power. Costarring John Banner (Hogan's Heroes) and Cordula Trantow in a Golden Globe®-nominated performance as the Führer's beloved niece Geli.

Mansion of the Doomed
(1976)A doctor trying to restore his daughter’s eyesight kidnaps victims and transplants their eyes in this horror film banned in the U.K.
The Great Bank Hoax
(1978)God Bless America... but grab what you can just in case. When, on the eve of an inspection by a bank examiner, the executives of a small-town bank discover that a trusted employee has been embezzling, they concoct a plan to cover the loss--which will net them a tidy sum in the process. Now, as word spreads of the embezzlement and cover-up among the upstanding citizens of the town, everyone decides that, rather than report the crime to the authorities, it's time to cash in for him or herself in this hilarious comedy of corruption.

Canyon Crossroads
(1955)A modern-day uranium prospector recruits a geology professor and his daughter to seek the "mother lode" in Utah. A sinister mine owner sends helicopters into Utah flats to stop them. The prospector's only defense--a six-shooter.

Reign of Terror
(1949)A powerful figure in the French Revolution desperately seeks his book listing those marked for death, thereby guaranteeing his rise to dictatorship.

Moby Dick
(1956)When a sailor joins the crew of a whaling ship captained by a man bent on killing a white whale, he is swept up in an obsessive and fatal pursuit

Time Limit
(1957)During the Korean Conflict, an Army Colonel investigates what appears to be an open and shut treason case against a Major accused of collaborating with the enemy but as details emerge, there is more to the story than first thought

The Satan Bug
(1965)A desperate manhunt is on. The survival of the world is at stake. A doomsday clock is ticking! Officials have no doubt about a madman's ability to carry out germ warfare...they know he has The Satan Bug! John Sturges directs this top-notch thriller.

Hans Brinker
(1969)Based on the classic children’s story, this fun-filled musical is sprinkled with fantasy and excitement. When his family falls on hard times, Hans is determined to help in any way he can. He enters a big race with the hope of winning the prize: a pair of silver ice skates. At the same time, he and his sister work to restore their father’s failing health.

The Bounty Man
(1972)Two rival bounty hunters are after the same murderer but find they have to join together to fight off his gang of cut-throat killers.

La Strada
(1954)A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.

The Swindle
(1955)
Maneater
(1973)Camping turns deadly when couples face a predatory threat in the remote wilderness.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Captain Crane joins the crew of the Seaview and races to the North Pole to detonate a nuclear device in order to counteract the potentially deadly effects of massive tidal waves.

Cry Wolf
(1947)Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck star in this psychological thriller about a wealthy young widow who discovers the hereditary insanity that has been a well-guarded secret within the walls of her late husband's family estate.