Richard Basehart
27 titles
Filmography
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Kings of the Sun
(1963)In this historic epic, a great Mayan king moves his surviving tribesmen to the coast, where tense rivalries and civil strife result in a harsh war.

21 Hours at Munich
(1976)Chilling account of events that shocked the world at the twentieth Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when a group of terrorists killed two Israeli team members and took nine others hostage.

The Andersonville Trial
(1970)This post-civil war court martial drama focuses on the trial of a Confederate officer who ran the notorious prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where over 14,000 Union prisoners died from disease, starvation and neglect.

The Island of Dr. Moreau
(1977)Based on the H.G. Wells novel, a sailor washes ashore on an island where a mad scientist’s experiments toy with the nature of animal and man.

The Brothers Karamazov
(1958)Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given the Hollywood screen treatment in this sumptuous and colorful film. Lee J. Cobb, in an Academy Award®-nominated role plays Fyodor Karamazov, the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri (Yul Brynner), a callous Russian officer; Ivan (Richard Basehart), the intellectual; pious Alexey (William Shatner in his screen debut); and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in their own way.

Titanic
(1953)La vie des passagers du Titanic, paquebot de luxe voué à un funeste destin, est présentée avant et pendant son triste naufrage dans l'Atlantique.

Los Angeles Plays Itself
(2004)Of the cities in the world, few are depicted in and mythologized more in film and TV than the city of Los Angeles. Carefully weaving together footage from films made in or about the city, Thom Andersen gradually builds his thesis about how Hollywood has represented, and misrepresented, its hometown.