Gary Basaraba

Gary Basaraba, born March 16, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is an actor. He stars as Officer Ray Hechler in the first and second seasons of Boomtown. He is best known for playing American police officers. He starred as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South.
==Biography==
===Career===
According to the DVD commentary for the first season, 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.
From 2007 to 2010 he 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 first season episode "Point of View" in 1992, as a corrections officer in the original series episode "The Brotherhood" in 2004 and as George Burton in the fifth season Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Parasites" in 2001.
He had a supporting role in the 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 as Jerry Pollard.
In 2010 he reunited with Boomtown star Donnie Wahlberg on his series Blue Bloods. Basaraba guest starred as Jimmy Burke in the first season episode "After Hours".
Basaraba was the voice of Hefty Smurf in the live-action/CG family film The Smurfs (2011).
In 2012 he guest starred in the fifth season of Mad Men. He appeared in the episode "The Other Woman" as Herb Rennert. His character is a business executive who pays to sleep with Joan Harris, one of the series main characters and the office manager of the advertising firm that is courting Rennert's business.
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==References==
==External links==
*Gary Basaraba at IMDb
*Gary Basaraba at Wikipedia
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