Arthur Franz
Acting
Born 1920-02-29
Died 2006-06-16
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
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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.
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Perry Mason
Lassie
Hawaii Five-O
The Fugitive
Bonanza
Wagon Train
The Waltons
The Virginian
Robert Montgomery Presents
Mannix
Rawhide
Mission: Impossible
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Cannon
The Six Million Dollar Man
Gunsmoke
The F.B.I.
Studio One
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Philco Television Playhouse
Climax!
Four Star Playhouse
The Invaders
Barnaby Jones
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
One Step Beyond
Kraft Television Theatre
The Ford Television Theatre
The Lone Ranger
The Rookies
Hawaiian Eye
Police Story
McCloud
77 Sunset Strip
Tarzan
The Mod Squad
Land of the Giants
Omnibus
Studio 57
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Checkmate
The Millionaire
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Lancer
The Deputy
Mr. Novak
Cavalcade of America
Bourbon Street Beat
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Profiles in Courage
The Alaskans
Men Into Space
The Chevy Mystery Show
The Outcasts
Medical Story
Custer
Saints and Sinners
The Whistler
The Caine Mutiny
Alvarez Kelly
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