Gary Basaraba

From 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 Bochcos 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 Charlottes 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 amp 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 liveactionCG family film The Smurfs