Michael Baseleon was a busy American actor who debuted in the theater before becoming a regular on television. He was featured or guest-starred in some 90 television series and TV movies (including The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969), Der Chef (1967), Make-Up und Pistolen (1974), Barnaby Jones (1973), Police Story - Immer im Einsatz (1973), Flamingo Road (1980), CHiPs (1977), The Greatest American Hero (1981), and Das A-Team (1983)). He did not appear in many feature films, but two of these (Black Power (1968) and Die Grissom Bande (1971)) stood out whilst another (Der Mann, den sie Pferd nannten (1970)) became a cult classic. Baseleon died at age 61 in 1986 after suffering a heart attack.
