Gary Basaraba
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
The Accountant
as Don 2016
The Smurfs
as Hefty Smurf (voice) 2011
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Detective Burns 2023
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Jerry Pollard, motorman 2009
Sound of Freedom
as Earl Buchanan 2023
The Smurfs 2
as Hefty Smurf (voice) 2013
Suburbicon
as Uncle Mitch 2017
Unfaithful
as Detective Mirojnick 2002
Charlotte's Web
as Homer Zuckerman 2006
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Grady Kilgore 1991
American Animals
as Warren Lipka Senior 2018
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Andrew, Apostle 1988
Striptease
as Alberto 1996
Little Italy
as Vince 2018
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
as Hefty (voice) 2011
Who's That Girl
as Shipping Clerk 1987