Biography
William Bassett (born December 28, 1935) is an American actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Black Dynamite
2009
as Captain Yancy
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded...
Fast Girl
2008
as Willy
Racing is in Alex Johnstone's blood. It was her father s life and it ultimately caused his death so her uncle Bill, who runs the local speedway, is de...
Demon Hunter
2005
as Cardinal White
After resolving a situation of exorcism, the half-breed demon hunter Jake Greyman (Sean Patrick Flanery) reports to Cardinal White (William Bassett) a...
Welcome To September
2005
as Mr. Taskey
Drew McCullough, a lonely young Irishman, sells carpet for a living. One night, he is transfixed by the image of a beautiful, exotic woman in a painti...
Wild Roomies
2004
as Mr. Seeley
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the h...
House of 1000 Corpses
2003
as Sheriff Frank Huston
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadisti...
Crazy As Hell
2002
as Mr. Brennan
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All ...
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
2000
as Narrator
A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film.
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
2000
as Narrator (voice) (as William H. Bassett)
A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to thi...
Her Costly Affair
1996
as Ed Baines
A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
Spring Awakening
1994
as Ulf Anderson
The failing economic fortunes of a small turn-of-the-century Nebraska town interrupt a blossoming romance between a pair of star-crossed lovers.
Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel
1993
as Aaron
Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance i...
Never Forget
1991
as Lewis Brandon
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, s...
The Hollywood Detective
1989
as Jerry Brazil (as William H. Bassett)
An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her.
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
1989
as Dr. Watts
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
Black Eagle
1988
as Dean Rickert
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where ...
Invaders from Mars
1986
as NASA Scientist
In this remake of the classic 1950s sci-fi tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his...
The Naked Cage
1986
as Jordan
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer vari...
Creator
1985
as Dr. Sutter
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an eg...
Sam's Son
1984
as Mr. Turner
Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity,...
The Karate Kid
1984
as Mr. Mills
New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target ...
Moonlight
1982
as Tappan Zee Man
A fast-food delivery man for a New York Chinese restaurant gets involved with international terrorists and is recruited by undercover agents to help t...
Thornwell
1981
as C.I.C. Agent
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents ...
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
1980
as Policeman
When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger, he and his three friends inadvertently hold the key to unravelling the sinister plot t...
Old Boyfriends
1979
as David Brinks
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.
The Bastard
1978
as British Officer
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o...
Keefer
1978
as The Sergeant
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
Perfect Gentlemen
1978
as Southern Man
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.
Return from Witch Mountain
1978
as Operations Officer
Tony and Tia are other-worldly twins endowed with telekinesis. When their Uncle Bene drops them off in Los Angeles for an earthbound vacation, a displ...
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
1977
as Smitty
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous vi...
Never Con a Killer
1977
as Huff Hufaker
Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyon...
The New Love Boat
1977
as Josh
Guest stars include Georgia Engel as a stowaway, Gary Frank and Melanie Mayron as a pair of tremulous honeymooners, Stella Stevens and Pat Harrington ...
Lucky Lady
1975
as Charley
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate lo...
My Father's House
1975
as Airplane Captain
Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-...
The Towering Inferno
1974
as Leading Agent
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
1974
Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage. With the help of a scientist he clones a replacement...
Unwed Father
1974
as Principal
A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get ...
The Lie
1973
as Army Major
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in the...
Another Part of the Forest
1972
as Bagtry
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
The Grasshopper
1970
as Aaron
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
A Time for Dying
1969
as The Southerner
Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel ...
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
1966
as Rubin / Narvinsky
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whos...
The Tempest
1960
as Ferdinand
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the isla...