Arthur Franz
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.24 |
| Birthday | 1920-02-29 |
| Place of Birth | Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Arthur Sofield Franz, |
1954
The Caine Mutiny
7.1/330
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...
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The Caine Mutiny
1956
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
6.9/109
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 a...
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1953
Invaders from Mars
5.9/184
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of...
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Invaders from Mars
1949
The Price of Freedom
0/0
The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns...
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The Price of Freedom
1975
The Human Factor
5.7/20
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
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The Human Factor
1952
The Sniper
6.7/68
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by...
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The Sniper
1957
The Unholy Wife
4.529/17
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accident...
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The Unholy Wife
1949
Red Light
5.5/20
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. He pay...
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Red Light
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
6.353/102
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1958
Monster on the Campus
6.1/48
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood...
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Monster on the Campus
1958
The Young Lions
6.8/132
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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The Young Lions
1951
Flight To Mars
5.3/27
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
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Flight To Mars
1950
Three Secrets
6.4/15
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted a...
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Three Secrets
1959
The Atomic Submarine
5.3/44
Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
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The Atomic Submarine
1955
New Orleans Uncensored
4.5/4
William Castle directed this Sam Katzman production, a gritty crime thriller about a newly-discharged sailor who gets a job as a longshoreman in The B...
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New Orleans Uncensored
1979
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
0/0
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain con...
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Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
1976
Sisters of Death
3.9/28
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited fo...
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Sisters of Death
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
6.4/135
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit th...
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Sands of Iwo Jima
1975
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
3.5/2
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...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1957
Hellcats of the Navy
4.3/13
Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commande...
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Hellcats of the Navy
1953
Bad for Each Other
5.7/10
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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Bad for Each Other
1950
Tarnished
5.8/2
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 L...
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Tarnished
1955
Bobby Ware Is Missing
7/1
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The polic...
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Bobby Ware Is Missing
1951
Submarine Command
5.6/16
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequ...
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Submarine Command
1954
The Steel Cage
0/0
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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The Steel Cage
1958
The Flame Barrier
4.2/5
Carol Dahlmann enlists the Hollister brothers to help locate her missing husband. The husband was tracking a fallen satellite through the jungle. Whil...
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The Flame Barrier
1957
Back from the Dead
4.8/12
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 s...
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Back from the Dead
1956
The Wild Party
5.8/4
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.
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The Wild Party
1955
Battle Taxi
5.4/8
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 tu...
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Battle Taxi
1949
Roseanna McCoy
6.1/5
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 reki...
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Roseanna McCoy
1952
Eight Iron Men
6.8/5
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...
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Eight Iron Men
1951
Strictly Dishonorable
5.2/4
A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.
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Strictly Dishonorable
1956
Running Target
5.5/2
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...
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Running Target
1948
Jungle Patrol
5/2
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.
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Jungle Patrol
1954
With This Ring
0/0
Dramatised promotional film for the Miller Brewing Company.
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With This Ring
1953
Flight Nurse
5.5/2
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
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Flight Nurse
1968
Anzio
5.822/59
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 feroc...
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Anzio
1968
The Sweet Ride
5.6/5
AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.
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The Sweet Ride
1953
The Eddie Cantor Story
5/1
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.
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The Eddie Cantor Story
1952
The Member of the Wedding
6.2/25
Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.
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The Member of the Wedding
1957
The Devil's Hairpin
5/1
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who...
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The Devil's Hairpin
1964
The Carpetbaggers
5.8/34
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruth...
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The Carpetbaggers
1974
Murder or Mercy
0/0
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
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Murder or Mercy
1980
Bogie
5/2
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...
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Bogie
1949
Red Stallion In The Rockies
0/0
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
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Red Stallion In The Rockies
1976
Legend of Loch Ness
5/1
A documentary exploring the existence of the legendary "Nessie," an aquatic dinosaur that is supposed to exist in the depth of Loch Ness, Scotland.
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Legend of Loch Ness
1966
Alvarez Kelly
6.2/50
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to cha...
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Alvarez Kelly
1970
Dream No Evil
5.6/17
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. A...
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Dream No Evil
1952
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
0/0
Two singers step in to help an aspiring actress whose grandmother opposes her bid to launch a show-business career
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Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
1956
Once to Every Woman
0/0
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. He sa...
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Once to Every Woman
1971
The Million Dollar Duck
5.7/85
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.
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The Million Dollar Duck
1982
That Championship Season
5.1/8
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The m...
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That Championship Season
1953
Three Lives
0/0
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk,...
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Three Lives
1977
The Amazing Howard Hughes
5.875/8
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' busines...
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The Amazing Howard Hughes
1973
So Long, Blue Boy
1/1
Thoughtful independent film which chronicles the romantic tribulations of a young homosexual artist.
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