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Arthur Franz

29 Feb, 1920 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA

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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Arthur Sofield Franz

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Three Secrets
64% (1950)
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Battle Taxi
54% (1955)
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Jungle Patrol
50% (1948)
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Anzio
58% (1968)
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Three Lives
0% (1953)
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So Long, Blue Boy
10% (1973)
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The Rookies
69% (1972)
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Omnibus
60% (1952)
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Studio One
44% (1948)
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The Waltons
71% (1972)
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Rawhide
70% (1959)
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Lancer
47% (1968)
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McCloud
71% (1970)
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Climax!
27% (1954)
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Mr. Novak
65% (1963)
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Custer
60% (1967)
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World of Giants
40% (1959)
Primus
50% (1971)
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Climax!
27% (1954)
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Climax!
27% (1954)
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Climax!
27% (1954)
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Rawhide
70% (1959)
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The Deputy
62% (1959)
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Studio 57
0% (1954)