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Arthur Franz
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 Cain…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Franz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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1982
That Championship Season
Movie Macken
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1980
Bogie
Movie Dr. Bogart
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1979
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Movie Dick Leonard
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1977
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Movie Barnes
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1977
The Amazing Howard Hughes
TV show Barnes
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1976
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
TV show Sen. Jones
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1976
Sisters of Death
Movie Edmond Clybourn
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1976
The Legend of Loch Ness
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1975
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Movie Man at Party
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1975
The Human Factor
Movie Gen. Fuller
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1975
Medical Story
TV show Crowell
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1974
Murder or Mercy
Movie Dr. Raymond Eckworth
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Dr. Wayne Carlton
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1973
So Long, Blue Boy
Movie Ed Rilke
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1973
Police Story
TV show
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1973
Barnaby Jones
TV show Morgan Walding
More credits
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1972
The Waltons
TV show Police Chief Moresdale
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1972
The Rookies
TV show
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1971
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV show Laird Holden
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1971
Primus
TV show
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1971
Cannon
TV show
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1971
The Million Dollar Duck
Movie Prosecutor (uncredited)
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1970
McCloud
TV show
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1970
Dream No Evil
Movie John
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1969
Hawaii Five-O
TV show Del Enright
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1968
The Mod Squad
TV show Dr. Sam Berger
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1968
Lancer
TV show
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1968
The Outcasts
TV show
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1968
Land of the Giants
TV show Dr. Franzen
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1968
Anzio
Movie Maj. Gen. Luke Howard
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1968
The Sweet Ride
Movie Army Psychiatrist
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1967
Mannix
TV show Father Vale
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1967
Custer
TV show
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1967
The Invaders
TV show Capt. Jim Trent
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1966
Alvarez Kelly
Movie Capt. Towers
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1966
Mission: Impossible
TV show First Minister Andre Picard
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1966
Tarzan
TV show
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show John Caldwell
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1964
Profiles in Courage
TV show James Madison
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1964
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
TV show Archer
