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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.
Most Popular Arthur Franz Trailers
Total trailers found: 55
19 November 1975
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
23 October 1955
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son.
01 November 1948
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
01 December 1954
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
09 May 1952
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers.
28 February 1950
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
12 June 1968
AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.
21 December 1956
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.
10 April 1974
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
01 December 1952
During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.
24 June 1954
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
20 October 1950
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California.
06 October 1966
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.
25 December 1952
Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.
14 March 1951
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
08 April 1964
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
30 September 1949
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess.
24 July 1968
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
04 March 1980
The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling young actor through movie stardom and his marriages to Mayo Methot and Lauren Bacall.
30 June 1971
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
02 April 1958
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
03 January 1955
In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a team player.
17 September 1953
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
01 May 1957
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy.
01 March 1956
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married.
09 April 1953
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
12 August 1957
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
13 April 1977
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich.
01 November 1951
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II.
29 November 1959
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
01 January 1950
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist.
15 October 1958
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
17 December 1975
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when he arrived with little money, enormous expenses and an ill wife.
01 January 1970
Grace is a troubled young lady with some serious daddy issues. She was adopted as a young girl and raised up in a family of traveling faith healers.
05 March 1979
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company.
11 November 1951
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
09 December 1982
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship.
29 April 1949
The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people.
13 September 1956
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney.
15 November 1953
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
24 December 1953
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
02 April 1958
Carol Dahlmann enlists the Hollister brothers to help locate her missing husband. The husband was tracking a fallen satellite through the jungle.
25 December 1953
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
01 March 1955
Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer.
01 March 1952
Two singers step in to help an aspiring actress whose grandmother opposes her bid to launch a show-br
24 June 1957
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover.
04 October 1957
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit.
12 October 1949
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
03 July 1951
A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.
01 January 1976
A documentary exploring the existence of the legendary "Nessie," an aquatic dinosaur that is supposed to exist in the depth of Loch Ness, Scotland.
02 May 1949
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
18 April 1976
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette.
01 November 1956
In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thought it is his sworn duty to return the men dead or alive, he is, as always, reluctant to kill his fellow man.
01 January 1954
Dramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company.
13 November 1973
Thoughtful independent film which chronicles the romantic tribulations of a young homosexual artist.
