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name: "William Bassett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-bassett"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 December 1935"
died: "9 February 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:20:15.117268+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# William Bassett

Actor. Born 28 December 1935 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Died 9 February 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 December 1935, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 9 February 2025
- **Also known as:** William H. Bassett, William Henry Bassett , Frederick Bloggs

## Biography

William Henry Bassett was an American actor who appeared in film, television and voice work from the 1960s onwards. He was born on 28 December 1935 in Evanston, Illinois, and died on 9 February 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

Bassett trained at Northwestern University. He is known for his role as Mr. Mills in *The Karate Kid* (1984). Other credits include *The Towering Inferno* (1974), *House of 1000 Corpses* (2003) as Sheriff Frank Huston, *Black Dynamite* (2009) as Captain Yancy, and voice roles such as Huu in *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2005). He also hosted the game show *Inquizition* (1998–2001) and appeared in numerous television series including *I Dream of Jeannie*, *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* and *Arrested Development*, as well as voicing commercials for Whataburger.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Karate Kid* (1984), Fi1m 81, as Mr. Mills — [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid.md)

## Also known for

- *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2005), Huu (voice)
- *House of 1000 Corpses* (2003), Sheriff Frank Huston
- *Sabrina, the Teenage Witch* (1996), Roy
- *The Towering Inferno* (1974), Leading Agent
- *MacGyver* (1985), Iain M'Iver (uncredited)
- *Power Rangers* (1993), Ghost Commander
- *I Dream of Jeannie* (1965), Clem, Sam Farrow
- *Black Dynamite* (2009), Captain Yancy

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