Gary Basaraba

Acting · Born 1959-03-16 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Biography

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…

Filmography

• The Last Temptation of Christ as Andrew, Apostle
• Fried Green Tomatoes as Grady Kilgore
• The Accountant as Don
• The Irishman as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
• Sound of Freedom as Earl Buchanan
• Killers of the Flower Moon as Detective Burns
• Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise as Norman Shaw
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle as Heywood Broun
• Charlotte's Web as Homer Zuckerman
• No Mercy as Joe Collins

TV

• Everybody Hates Chris as Art Wuliger
• Castle as Ralph Carbone
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Mr. Sullivan
• Cold Case as Vinnie Buonaforte / Brown
• Homicide: Life on the Street as Paul Garbarek
• The Outer Limits as Ben Miller
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as George Burton
• Person of Interest as Stu Sommers
• Blue Bloods as Jimmy Burke
• Forever as Norman Sontag