William Bassett
Born: 1935-12-28 in Evanston, Illinois, USA
Died: 2025-02-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
William Henry Bassett (December 28, 1935 – February 9, 2025) was an American actor of film and television who appeared in more than 100 commercials, films, television programs, and video games from the 1960s through the 2010s.
Filmography
2009
- Black Dynamite as Captain Yancy
2008
- Fast Girl as Willy
2005
- Avatar: The Last Airbender as Huu (voice)
- Demon Hunter as Cardinal White
- Welcome To September as Mr. Taskey
2004
- Wild Roomies as Mr. Seeley
2003
- Arrested Development as Cab Driver
- Reno 911! as Mover
- House of 1000 Corpses as Sheriff Frank Huston
2002
- Crazy As Hell as Mr. Brennan
2001
- Scrubs as Patient
- The Division as Older Man
2000
- Strong Medicine as Spelling Bee Judge
- The Invisible Man as Benjamin Scarborough
- Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' as Narrator
- The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove as Narrator (voice) (as William H. Bassett)
1998
- The Magnificent Seven as Bartender
1997
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as Alexander (segment "The Burial")
1996
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Roy
- 3rd Rock from the Sun as Bernard
- Her Costly Affair as Ed Baines
1994
- Spring Awakening as Ulf Anderson
1993
- Power Rangers as Ghost Commander
- Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel as Aaron
1991
- Never Forget as Lewis Brandon
1989
- The Case of the Hillside Stranglers as Dr. Watts
- The Hollywood Detective as Jerry Brazil (as William H. Bassett)
1988
- Black Eagle as Dean Rickert
1986
- Invaders from Mars as NASA Scientist
- The Naked Cage as Jordan
1984
- Hunter as Park Beach Bum
- The Karate Kid as Mr. Mills
- Sam's Son as Mr. Turner
1982
- T. J. Hooker as Mr. Miller
- Moonlight as Tappan Zee Man
- Richard II as Lord Marshal
1981
- Thornwell as C.I.C. Agent
1980
- The Kids Who Knew Too Much as Policeman
1979
- Knots Landing as Emissary
- Old Boyfriends as David Brinks
1978
- Dallas as Gurney (as William H. Bassett)
- The Bastard as British Officer
- Keefer as The Sergeant
- Return from Witch Mountain as Operations Officer
- Perfect Gentlemen as Southern Man
1977
- The Night They Took Miss Beautiful as Smitty
- Never Con a Killer as Huff Hufaker
- The New Love Boat as Josh
1975
- Lucky Lady as Charley
- My Father's House as Airplane Captain
1974
- Unwed Father as Principal
- The Towering Inferno as Leading Agent
- The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
1973
- The Lie as Army Major
1972
- Another Part of the Forest as Bagtry
1970
- The Grasshopper as Aaron
- Nancy as Secret Service Agent Turner
1969
- A Time for Dying as The Southerner
1968
- Land of the Giants as Ranger Jack
1967
- The Second Hundred Years as Sergei
1966
- The Journey of the Fifth Horse as Rubin / Narvinsky
1965
- I Dream of Jeannie as Clem
1960
- The Tempest as Ferdinand
- The Chevy Mystery Show as Dr. Roger Waring