Basil Ruysdael

Basil Ruysdael

Born: July 23, 1888
Died: October 10, 1960
in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
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Basil Ruysdael (July 24, 1888 - October 10, 1960) was an American film actor and opera singer.

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He started his career as a baritone singer for the Metropolitan Opera Company in the early 1900's and appeared on the New York stage in 1918. Moving to California in 1923, he was a voice teacher for many actors. Encouraged to try acting himself, he made his big screen debut in "Cocoanuts" (1929). For the next 30 years he was a frequent character performer in films to include "Come to the Stable" (1949), "Broken Arrow" (1950), "People Will Talk" (1951), "The Last Hurrah" (1958) and "The Horse Soldiers" (1960). He also did voice over in "101 Dalmatians" (1961) and appeared on the TV shows "Perry Mason", "Official Detective", "Father knows Best" and "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. He at the age of 72 of complications following surgery.

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The Story of Ruth
Title: The Story of Ruth
Character: Shammah
Released: June 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Ruth is an unusual character in the Bible. First she's a female protagonist, one of a select few there. Secondly her story gets its own book in the Old Testament, a short item of only four chapters. Lastly she's the first non-Hebrew protagonist in the Bible since Abraham sired the Hebrew people. It's a simple story in the Old Testament. Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her. She's going to give up the life and culture of Moab and her people will be Naomi's people in the most famous line from the Book of Ruth.
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The Horse Soldiers
Title: The Horse Soldiers
Character: The Reverend (Jefferson Military Academy)
Released: June 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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Title: Black Saddle
Character: Senator McQueen
Released: January 10, 1959
Type: TV
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
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The Last Hurrah
Title: The Last Hurrah
Character: The Episcopal Bishop
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Henry W. Dameron
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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These Wilder Years
Title: These Wilder Years
Character: Judge
Released: August 17, 1956
Type: Movie
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
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Jubal
Title: Jubal
Character: Shem Hoktor
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
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Diane
Title: Diane
Character: Chamberlain
Released: January 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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Pearl of the South Pacific
Title: Pearl of the South Pacific
Character: Tuan Michael
Released: September 16, 1955
Type: Movie
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Title: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Character: Gen. / President Andrew Jackson
Released: May 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.
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Blackboard Jungle
Title: Blackboard Jungle
Character: Prof. A.R. Kraal
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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The Violent Men
Title: The Violent Men
Character: Tex Hinkleman
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
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Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
Title: Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
Character: Andrew Jackson
Released: January 26, 1955
Type: Movie
The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their claims. In town, Davy wins a gunfight against the town bully, Big Foot Mason, and, as a result, he becomes the town lawman.
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Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
Title: Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
Character: General Jackson
Released: December 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Davy Crockett seeks a truce with his Indian foes.
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The Shanghai Story
Title: The Shanghai Story
Character: Rev. Hollingsworth
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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General Electric Theater: Wedding Day
Title: General Electric Theater: Wedding Day
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: Movie
An elderly couple of naturalized Germans living in the U. S. discovers after 60 years of marital bliss that, technically, they were never married.
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Carrie
Title: Carrie
Character: Mr. Fitzgerald
Released: July 17, 1952
Type: Movie
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Boots Malone
Title: Boots Malone
Character: Preacher Cole
Released: January 11, 1952
Type: Movie
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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People Will Talk
Title: People Will Talk
Character: Dean Lyman Brockwell
Released: August 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
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Half Angel
Title: Half Angel
Character: Dr. Jackson
Released: May 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
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My Forbidden Past
Title: My Forbidden Past
Character: Dean Cazzley
Released: April 25, 1951
Type: Movie
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Raton Pass
Title: Raton Pass
Character: Pierre Challon
Released: April 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
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The Scarf
Title: The Scarf
Character: Cyrus Barrington
Released: April 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
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Gambling House
Title: Gambling House
Character: Judge Ravinek
Released: December 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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High Lonesome
Title: High Lonesome
Character: 'Horse' Davis
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
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Broken Arrow
Title: Broken Arrow
Character: General Oliver
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
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One Way Street
Title: One Way Street
Character: Father Moreno
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Judge Jonathan David Hancock
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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The Doctor and the Girl
Title: The Doctor and the Girl
Character: Dr. Francis I. Garard
Released: September 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
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Pinky
Title: Pinky
Character: Judge Walker
Released: September 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Come to the Stable
Title: Come to the Stable
Character: The Bishop
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
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Colorado Territory
Title: Colorado Territory
Character: Dave Rickard ('The Old Man')
Released: June 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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The Archives
Title: The Archives
Character: Narrator
Released: July 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A Washington Parade reel....
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The Romance of Iron and Steel
Title: The Romance of Iron and Steel
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Armco presents a promotional film that follows the process of turning iron ore into steel.
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Dealers in Death
Title: Dealers in Death
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world's largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even when their countries are wartime enemies. These munitions works, in the interest of making money, manipulate wartime conditions to prolong wars.
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The Cocoanuts
Title: The Cocoanuts
Character: Detective Hennessy
Released: May 23, 1929
Type: Movie
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.