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Arthur Franz

Arthur Franz

Actor · 1920 – 2006 · Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA

Arthur Franz (February 29, 1920 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – June 17, 2006) was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy (1949), Invaders from Mars (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) and The Unholy Wife (1957), among others. In The Sniper (1952), he played a rare movie lead in the film's title role as a tormented killer. In addition to films, Franz was a familiar face on American television, appearing on dozen of television programs including Crossroads, Perry Mason, The F.B.I., The Mod Squad, Custer, The Virginian and Rawhide. Franz portrayed Congressman Charles A. Halleck in the 1974, made for TV film, The Missiles of October. Franz's last film role was in That Championship Season in 1982. Franz's interest in acting developed when he was a high school student. During World War II, Franz served as a B-24 Liberator navigator in the United States Army Air Forces. He was shot down over Romania and incarcerated in a POW camp, from which he escaped. Franz died in Oxnard, California at the age of 86 from emphysema and heart disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Franz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie7.2

    The Caine Mutiny

    1954 · 383 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Young Lions

    1958 · 150 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    1956 · 130 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.3

    Sands of Iwo Jima

    1950 · 180 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Sniper

    1952 · 84 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Alvarez Kelly

    1966 · 62 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Lo sbarco di Anzio

    Anzio

    1968 · 85 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Invaders from Mars

    1953 · 212 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Million Dollar Duck

    1971 · 97 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Carpetbaggers

    1964 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie4.8

    Hellcats of the Navy

    1957 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Submarine Command

    1951 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Monster on the Campus

    1958 · 54 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The 'Human' Factor

    The Human Factor

    1975 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Red Light

    1949 · 24 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Three Secrets

    1950 · 17 votes

  • Movie5.3

    New Orleans Uncensored

    1955 · 6 votes

  • Movie5.3

    That Championship Season

    1982 · 11 votes

  • Movie4.1

    Sisters of Death

    1976 · 37 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Atomic Submarine

    1959 · 49 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Bad for Each Other

    1953 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Eight Iron Men

    1952 · 7 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966 · 320 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Waltons

    1972 · 106 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.3

    Lassie

    1954 · 74 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV7.8
  • TV7.1

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1958 · 38 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes