Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no. 3166. Photo: G.B. Poletto /Titanus. Richard Basehart in Il bidone/The Swindlers (Federico Fellini, 1955). American actor Richard Basehart (1914–1984) starred in Fellini’s La Strada (1954) and other European and American films of the 1950s. In the next decade, he starred on TV in the Science fiction series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1958), in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson. John Richard Basehart was born in Zanesville, Ohio, U.S. in 1914…
