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.
86 acting credits
Acting · 86
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Mentalist
2008
Criminal Minds
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Bones
2005
Castle
2009
Person of Interest
2011
Blue Bloods
2010
Mad Men
2007
Cold Case
2003
Third Watch
1999
Miami Vice
1984
Numb3rs
2005
Judging Amy
1999
Las Vegas
2003
Everwood
2002
Madam Secretary
2014
NCIS: New Orleans
2014
Unforgettable
2011
Justified
2010
Nip/Tuck
2003
NYPD Blue
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Early Edition
1996
Close to Home
2005
The Outer Limits
1995
Everybody Hates Chris
2005
Northern Exposure
1990
The Leftovers
2014
Doom Patrol
2019
New York Undercover
1994
Family Law
1999
Martial Law
1998
Unfaithful
2002
Forever
2014
Brooklyn South
1997
Boomtown
2002
The Accountant
2016
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
The Irishman
2019
Chicago Justice
2017
The Smurfs
2011
Sound of Freedom
2023
Swift Justice
1996
Striptease
1996
Fried Green Tomatoes
1991
The Smurfs 2
2013
Charlotte's Web
2006
Who's That Girl
1987
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
Suburbicon
2017
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Paul T. Goldman
2023
Thief
2006
American Animals
2018
Mixed Blessings
2007
Little Italy
2018
Recount
2008
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
2011
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013
The War
1994
K-9: P.I.
2002
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
No Mercy
1986
Sweet Dreams
1985
One Magic Christmas
1985
The Advocate's Devil
1997
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
1991
Dead Silence
1997
Little Sweetheart
1989
The Dark Wind
1992
For Their Own Good
1993
Afterburn
1992
Alamo Bay
1985
Hornet's Nest
2012
Holy Joe
1999
Guilty Hearts
2002
What Happened to Bobby Earl?
1997
A Horse for Danny
1995
Lifebreath
1997
Recipe for Murder
2002
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998
Dallas, Sunday Morning
2016