
August 31, 1914 · 111 years old
John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson. One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaim…

After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

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.

An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.

A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.

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

A germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open prompting world-wide manhunt.

As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.

A documentary on how Los Angeles has been used and depicted in the movies.

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

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 responsibility.

This story is loosely based on the discovery of the B-24 "Liberator" bomber the "Lady Be Good" that was found in the Libyan desert after the crew got lost on their 1st bombing mission to Italy.

In the village of Fuentecilla is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but has now been forgotten by the public. To bring back the tourists, the "prominent men" of the village organize a fake miracle: the apparition o...

During an outbreak of a contagious disease in 1976, two scientists are sent back in time to 1871, when a Chicago doctor apparently had the cure for it.

A paroled convict's infatuation with a gold-digger nurse working at a sanitarium leads him to crime.