Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1920-02-29
Day of Death
2006-06-16
Place of Birth
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Arthur Franz
Biography
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.
Filmography (55)
That Championship Season
1982
Bogie
1980
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
1979
The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
Sisters of Death
1976
The Legend of Loch Ness
1976
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975
The Human Factor
1975
Murder or Mercy
1974
So Long, Blue Boy
1973
The Million Dollar Duck
1971
Dream No Evil
1970
Anzio
1968
The Sweet Ride
1968
