Arthur Franz

Works
Actor (15),
Birthday
1920-02-29

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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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The most significant works of Arthur Franz

The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Character: Lt. JG H. Paynter Jr.
Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
Character: Cpl. Robert C. Dunne / Narrator
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Character: Bob Hale - Leading
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Character: Dr. Stuart Kelston - Leading
The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
The Sniper (1952)
Character: Eddie Miller - Leading
The Human Factor (1975)
Character: Gen. Fuller
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Character: Tommy Nelson - Leading
Anzio (1968)
Character: Maj. Gen. Luke Howard
The Young Lions (1958)
Character: Lt. Green


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