Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 29, 1920
Died
Jun 16, 2006
Place of Birth
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Credits
120 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
That Championship Season
Macken
Bogie
Dr. Bogart
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Dick Leonard
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Barnes
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Barnes
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
Sen. Jones
Sisters of Death
Edmond Clybourn
The Legend of Loch Ness
Narrator (voice)
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Man at Party
The Human Factor
Gen. Fuller
Medical Story
Crowell
Murder or Mercy
Dr. Raymond Eckworth
The Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Wayne Carlton
So Long, Blue Boy
Ed Rilke
Police Story
Barnaby Jones
Morgan Walding
The Waltons
Police Chief Moresdale
The Rookies
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Laird Holden
Primus
Cannon
The Million Dollar Duck
Prosecutor (uncredited)
McCloud
Dream No Evil
John
The Mod Squad
Dr. Sam Berger
Lancer
The Outcasts
Land of the Giants
Dr. Franzen
Hawaii Five-O
Del Enright
Anzio
Maj. Gen. Luke Howard
The Sweet Ride
Army Psychiatrist
Mannix
Father Vale
Custer
The Invaders
Capt. Jim Trent
Alvarez Kelly
Capt. Towers
Mission: Impossible
First Minister Andre Picard
Tarzan
The F.B.I.
John Caldwell
Profiles in Courage
James Madison
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Archer
The Bing Crosby Show
The Carpetbaggers
Morrissey
Mr. Novak
Det. Sgt. Sol Moss
The Fugitive
Bus Driver
The Virginian
Fitz Warren
Saints and Sinners
Everett Harper
Ichabod and Me
Checkmate
The Chevy Mystery Show
Simon Dow
The Atomic Submarine
Richard "Reef" Holloway