Gary Basaraba
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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.
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
Grey's Anatomy
Micah
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
George Burton
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
William O'Boyle
Law & Order
Officer John Patrick Worley
Law & Order
Kevin Reilly
Criminal Minds
James Odenkirk
Bones
Bob Gordon
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Mr. Sullivan
The Mentalist
Stephen Hannigan
Castle
Ralph Carbone
Blue Bloods
Jimmy Burke
Everwood
Mr. Curtis
Person of Interest
Stu Sommers
Mad Men
Herb Rennet
Miami Vice
Dr. Morris
Cold Case
Vinnie Buonaforte / Brown
Las Vegas
Ned Oshinski
NCIS: New Orleans
Steven Bellamy
Unforgettable
Lt. Willard
Nip/Tuck
Arthur
The Outer Limits
Ben Miller
Doom Patrol
Big D
The Leftovers
Neil
Numb3rs
Joe Thibodeaux
Third Watch
Joe
Justified
Kemp
NYPD Blue
Victor Carlin
Madam Secretary
Tom Ryan
Homicide: Life on the Street
Paul Garbarek
Everybody Hates Chris
Art Wuliger
Northern Exposure
Willie
Judging Amy
Brian Whitaker
Forever
Norman Sontag
Early Edition
Sam Cooper
The Irishman
Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
Unfaithful
Detective Mirojnick
Killers of the Flower Moon
Detective Burns
New York Undercover
Tirelli
The Accountant
Don
Martial Law
Tom McNiece
Close to Home
Randy Stevens
Sound of Freedom
Earl Buchanan
Family Law
Maury French
Chicago Justice
William O'Boyle
Brooklyn South
Richard Santoro
Striptease
Alberto
The Smurfs
Hefty Smurf (voice)
Boomtown
Police Department Police Officer III Ray Hechler
The Smurfs 2
Hefty Smurf (voice)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Jerry Pollard, motorman
Charlotte's Web
Homer Zuckerman
Fried Green Tomatoes
Grady Kilgore
Suburbicon
Uncle Mitch
The Last Temptation of Christ
Andrew, Apostle
K-9: P.I.
Pete Timmons
American Animals
Warren Lipka Senior
Paul T. Goldman
Royce Auditioner
Lifebreath
John
Mixed Blessings
Hank
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
Hefty (voice)
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
Hefty Smurf (voice)
Afterburn
Bill Decker
Poison Candy
Barkeeper
Who's That Girl
Shipping Clerk
Little Italy
Vince
No Mercy
Joe Collins
The War
Dodge
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Norman Shaw
Recount
Clay Roberts
One Magic Christmas
Jack Grainger
Dead Silence
Shephard Wilcox
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Heywood Broun
Hornet's Nest
Seth
The Dark Wind
Larry
Sweet Dreams
Woodhouse
Alamo Bay
Leon
The Advocate's Devil
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
Leland Winters
Guilty Hearts
Matt Moran
Holy Joe
Ernie Blevins
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
Self
Recipe for Murder
What Happened to Bobby Earl?
Jack Dietrick
For Their Own Good
Roy Wheeler
A Horse for Danny
Solly
Dallas, Sunday Morning
Jack Ruby