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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 C…
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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.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
as Detective Burns
Sound of Freedom
as Earl Buchanan
The Irishman
as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
Little Italy
as Vince
American Animals
as Warren Lipka Senior
Suburbicon
as Uncle Mitch
The Accountant
as Don
No Poster
Dallas, Sunday Morning
as Jack Ruby
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
The Smurfs 2
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
Hornet's Nest
as Seth
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
as Hefty (voice)
The Smurfs
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Jerry Pollard, motorman
Recount
as Clay Roberts
Charlotte's Web
as Homer Zuckerman
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Norman Shaw
K-9: P.I.
as Pete Timmons
Unfaithful
as Detective Mirojnick
Recipe for Murder
Guilty Hearts
as Matt Moran
Holy Joe
as Ernie Blevins
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
as Self
Lifebreath
as John
The Advocate's Devil
Dead Silence
as Shephard Wilcox
What Happened to Bobby Earl?
as Jack Dietrick
Striptease
as Alberto
A Horse for Danny
as Solly
The War
as Dodge
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Heywood Broun
For Their Own Good
as Roy Wheeler
Afterburn
as Bill Decker
The Dark Wind
as Larry
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Grady Kilgore
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
as Leland Winters
Poison Candy
as Barkeeper
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Andrew, Apostle
Who's That Girl
as Shipping Clerk
No Mercy
as Joe Collins
One Magic Christmas
as Jack Grainger
Sweet Dreams
as Woodhouse
Alamo Bay
as Leon