Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
29 Feb, 1920 (105 years old)

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

Sisters of Death
HD
87 min 1976

Sisters of Death

Horror
The Atomic Submarine
HD
72 min 1959

The Atomic Submarine

Science Fiction
Monster on the Campus
HD
77 min 1958

Monster on the Campus

Horror
Back from the Dead
HD
79 min 1957

Back from the Dead

Horror
Hellcats of the Navy
HD
82 min 1957

Hellcats of the Navy

War
New Orleans Uncensored
HD
76 min 1955

New Orleans Uncensored

Thriller

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