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Gary Basaraba
Known for: ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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The Accountant
as Don 
Unfaithful
as Detective Mirojnick 
The Irishman
as Frank 'Fitz' Fitzsimmons 
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Jerry Pollard, motorman 
Striptease
as Alberto 
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
as Hefty Smurf (voice) 
Sound of Freedom
as Earl Buchanan 
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Grady Kilgore 
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Andrew, Apostle 
Little Italy
as Vince 
Suburbicon
as Uncle Mitch 
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
as Hefty (voice) 
No Mercy
as Joe Collins 
American Animals
as Warren Lipka Senior 
The War
as Dodge 
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Norman Shaw 
K-9: P.I.
as Pete Timmons 
One Magic Christmas
as Jack Grainger 
Recount
as Clay Roberts 
Sweet Dreams
as Woodhouse 
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
as Heywood Broun 
The Dark Wind
as Larry 
For Their Own Good
as Roy Wheeler 
Dead Silence
as Shephard Wilcox 
Poison Candy
as Barkeeper 
What Happened to Bobby Earl?
as Jack Dietrick 
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas
as Leland Winters 
Hornet's Nest
as Seth 
A Horse for Danny
as Solly 
Alamo Bay
as Leon 
Lifebreath
as John