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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.
as Detective Burns
as Earl Buchanan
as Royce Auditioner(1 ep)
as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons
as Big D(1 ep)
as Vince
as Warren Lipka Senior
as Uncle Mitch
as William O'Boyle(1 ep)
as Don
as Jack Ruby
as Steven Bellamy(1 ep)
as Norman Sontag(1 ep)
as Tom Ryan(1 ep)
as Neil(1 ep)
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
as Seth
as Hefty (voice)
as Stu Sommers(1 ep)
as Lt. Willard(1 ep)
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
as Jimmy Burke(1 ep)
as Kemp(1 ep)
as Jerry Pollard, motorman
as Ralph Carbone(1 ep)
as Stephen Hannigan(1 ep)
as Clay Roberts
as Hank(26 eps)
as Herb Rennet(3 eps)
as Homer Zuckerman
as Norman Shaw
as Art Wuliger(1 ep)
as James Odenkirk(1 ep)
as Randy Stevens(1 ep)
as Bob Gordon(1 ep)
as Micah(1 ep)
as Joe Thibodeaux(1 ep)
as Vinnie Buonaforte / Brown(1 ep)
as Ned Oshinski(1 ep)
as Arthur(1 ep)
as Police Department Police Officer III Ray Hechler(24 eps)
as Mr. Curtis(1 ep)
as Pete Timmons
as Detective Mirojnick
as Matt Moran
as Mr. Sullivan(1 ep)
as Joe(1 ep)
as Maury French(1 ep)
as George Burton(1 ep)
as William O'Boyle(1 ep)
as Brian Whitaker(3 eps)
as Ernie Blevins
as Tom McNiece(1 ep)
as John
as Shephard Wilcox
as Richard Santoro(22 eps)
as Jack Dietrick
as Sam Cooper(1 ep)
as Alberto
as Malcolm Davis(1 ep)
as Solly
as Ben Miller(1 ep)
as Dodge
as Tirelli(1 ep)
as Heywood Broun
as Victor Carlin(2 eps)
as Roy Wheeler
as Paul Garbarek(1 ep)
as Bill Decker
as Larry
as Grady Kilgore
as Leland Winters
as Officer John Patrick Worley(1 ep)
as Kevin Reilly(1 ep)
as Willie(1 ep)
as Barkeeper
as Andrew, Apostle
as Shipping Clerk
as Joe Collins
as Jack Grainger
as Woodhouse
as Leon
as Dr. Morris(2 eps)