Gary Basaraba

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1959-03-16

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	Alamo Bay	Leon	59
2	1985	Sweet Dreams	Woodhouse	65
3	1985	One Magic Christmas	Jack Grainger	58
4	1986	No Mercy	Joe Collins	58
5	1988	The Last Temptation of Christ	Andrew, Apostle	72
6	1989	Little Sweetheart	Barkeeper	54
7	1991	In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas	Leland Winters	59
8	1991	Fried Green Tomatoes	Grady Kilgore	77
9	1992	The Dark Wind	Larry	53
10	1992	Afterburn	Bill Decker	36
11	1993	For Their Own Good	Roy Wheeler	60
12	1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Heywood Broun	58
13	1994	The War	Dodge	67
14	1995	A Horse for Danny	Solly	80
15	1996	Striptease	Alberto	55
16	1997	What Happened to Bobby Earl?		63
17	1997	Dead Silence	Shephard Wilcox	58
18	1997	The Advocate's Devil		57
19	1997	Lifebreath	John	67
20	1998	Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes	Self	0
21	1999	Holy Joe	Ernie Blevins	33
22	2002	Guilty Hearts	Matt Moran	43
23	2002	Recipe for Murder		0
24	2002	Unfaithful	Detective Mirojnick	67
25	2002	K-9: P.I.	Pete Timmons	58
26	2006	Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise	Norman Shaw	69
27	2006	Charlotte's Web	Homer Zuckerman	62
28	2008	Recount	Clay Roberts	68
29	2009	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3	Jerry Pollard, motorman	64
30	2011	The Smurfs	Hefty Smurf (voice)	58
31	2011	The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol	Hefty (voice)	67
32	2012	Hornet's Nest	Seth	45
33	2013	The Smurfs 2	Hefty Smurf (voice)	57
34	2013	The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow	Hefty Smurf (voice)	68
35	2016	Dallas, Sunday Morning	Jack Ruby	0
36	2016	The Accountant	Don	71
37	2017	Suburbicon	Uncle Mitch	59
38	2018	American Animals	Warren Lipka Senior	67
39	2018	Little Italy	Vince	66
40	2019	The Irishman	Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons	76
41	2023	Sound of Freedom	Earl Buchanan	80
42	2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Detective Burns	74

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Miami Vice	Dr. Morris	75
2	1990	Northern Exposure	Willie	79
3	1990	Law & Order	Officer John Patrick Worley	74
4	1990	Law & Order	Kevin Reilly	74
5	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street		80
6	1993	NYPD Blue	Victor Carlin	70
7	1994	New York Undercover	Tirelli	71
8	1995	The Outer Limits	Ben Miller	77
9	1996	Early Edition	Sam Cooper	73
10	1997	Brooklyn South	Richard Santoro	97
11	1999	Judging Amy	Brian Whitaker	75
12	1999	Family Law	Maury French	82
13	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	George Burton	79
14	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	William O'Boyle	79
15	1999	Third Watch	Joe	79
16	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mr. Sullivan	76
17	2002	Everwood	Mr. Curtis	75
18	2002	Boomtown	Police Department Police Officer III Ray Hechler	65
19	2003	Nip/Tuck		72
20	2003	Las Vegas		70
21	2003	Cold Case	Vinnie Buonaforte / Brown	78
22	2005	Numb3rs		71
23	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Micah	82
24	2005	Bones	Bob Gordon	82
25	2005	Close to Home		59
26	2005	Everybody Hates Chris	Art Wuliger	80
27	2005	Criminal Minds	James Odenkirk	83
28	2007	Mad Men	Herb Rennet	81
29	2007	Mixed Blessings	Hank	0
30	2008	The Mentalist	Stephen Hannigan	84
31	2009	Castle	Ralph Carbone	80
32	2010	Justified	Kemp	80
33	2010	Blue Bloods	Jimmy Burke	78
34	2011	Person of Interest	Stu Sommers	81
35	2014	The Leftovers	Neil	76
36	2014	Madam Secretary	Tom Ryan	70
37	2014	Forever	Norman Sontag	78
38	2014	NCIS: New Orleans	Steven Bellamy	73
39	2017	Chicago Justice	William O'Boyle	68
40	2019	Doom Patrol	Big D	76
41	2023	Paul T. Goldman	Royce Auditioner	63

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