Gary Basaraba
42 movies · 43 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 16, 1959 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Biography
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Gary Basaraba (born March 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor best known for playing American police officers. He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on Boomtown.
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According to the DVD commentary for the first season of the police drama Boomtown, he did most of his driving stunts in the series and he made sure he accurately portrayed police procedures.
Basaraba played Heywood Broun, one of the greatest American journalists of the 20th Century, in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle in 1994. He played Sheriff Grady Kilgore in Fried Green Tomatoes. He also played Saint Andrew in The Last Temptation of Christ, and had a role in Sweet Dreams.
Basaraba played Homer Zuckerman in the remake of Charlotte's Web. Basaraba also portrayed the father, Jack Grainger, in One Magic Christmas, opposite Mary Steenburgen. Since 2007, he has appeared in the Canadian television series Mixed Blessings.
Basaraba has also made three appearances in the Law & Order franchise, as a bartender in the original series titled "Point of View", as a corrections officer in the Law and Order episode "The Brotherhood" in 2004 and in the fifth season of SVU.
It has been announced that Basaraba will be the voice of Hefty Smurf in the live-action/CG family film The Smurfs.
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Gary Basaraba: movies and TV shows
Acting (85)
- 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon
as Detective Burns
- 2023 Sound of Freedom
as Earl Buchanan
- 2023
- 2019 The Irishman
as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
- 2019
- 2018 Little Italy
as Vince
- 2018 American Animals
as Warren Lipka Senior
- 2017 Suburbicon
as Uncle Mitch
- 2017
- 2016 The Accountant
as Don
- 2016 Dallas, Sunday Morning
as Jack Ruby
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2013 The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
- 2013 The Smurfs 2
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
- 2012 Hornet's Nest
as Seth
- 2011 The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
as Hefty (voice)
- 2011
- 2011
- 2011 The Smurfs
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
- 2010
- 2010
- 2009 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Jerry Pollard, motorman
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008 Recount
as Clay Roberts
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006 Charlotte's Web
as Homer Zuckerman
- 2006 Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Norman Shaw
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002 K-9: P.I.
as Pete Timmons
- 2002 Unfaithful
as Detective Mirojnick
- 2002
- 2002 Guilty Hearts
as Matt Moran
- 2000
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999 Holy Joe
as Ernie Blevins
- 1998
- 1997 Lifebreath
as John
- 1997
- 1997 Dead Silence
as Shephard Wilcox
- 1997
- 1997 What Happened to Bobby Earl?
as Jack Dietrick
- 1996
- 1996 Striptease
as Alberto
- 1996
- 1995 A Horse for Danny
as Solly
- 1995
- 1994 The War
as Dodge
- 1994
- 1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Heywood Broun
- 1993
- 1993 For Their Own Good
as Roy Wheeler
- 1993
- 1992 Afterburn
as Bill Decker
- 1992 The Dark Wind
as Larry
- 1991 Fried Green Tomatoes
as Grady Kilgore
- 1991 In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
as Leland Winters
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989 Poison Candy
as Barkeeper
- 1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
as Andrew, Apostle
- 1987 Who's That Girl
as Shipping Clerk
- 1986 No Mercy
as Joe Collins
- 1985 One Magic Christmas
as Jack Grainger
- 1985 Sweet Dreams
as Woodhouse
- 1985 Alamo Bay
as Leon
- 1984
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1998