Arthur Franz
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-02-29 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Died
2006-06-16
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.
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Perry Mason
as Danny Harrison
Perry Mason
as Richard Vanaman
Perry Mason
as Mayor James M. Henderson
Perry Mason
as Evans
Perry Mason
as Ray Ogilvie
Bonanza
as Asa Moran
Mission: Impossible
as First Minister Andre Picard
Mission: Impossible
as Dr. Adler
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Dr. Wayne Carlton
The Waltons
as Police Chief Moresdale
The Fugitive
as Bus Driver
Hawaii Five-O
as Del Enright
Mannix
as Father Vale
Studio One
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Lee Brand
Wagon Train
as Nathan Forge
Wagon Train
as Dan Highet
The Virginian
as Fitz Warren
The Virginian
as Sheriff Mike Miller
Lassie
as Professor Standish