Anthony Franciosa
Anthony Franciosa (born Anthony George Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor.
Franciosa began his career on stage and made a breakthrough after portraying a brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.095 |
| Birthday | 1928-10-25 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | A. Franciosa, Tony Franciosa, |
1990
Anthony Quinn: An Original
6.5/2
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand...
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
1957
A Face in the Crowd
7.6/236
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king...
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A Face in the Crowd
1988
Zombie Death House
4.3/19
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
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Zombie Death House
1972
Across 110th Street
6.8/107
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are tw...
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Across 110th Street
1964
Rio Conchos
6.2/50
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Co...
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Rio Conchos
1975
The Drowning Pool
6.3/119
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter....
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The Drowning Pool
1958
The Long, Hot Summer
7.1/205
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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The Long, Hot Summer
1980
The Cricket
5.5/12
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
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The Cricket
1982
Death Wish II
6.259/458
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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Death Wish II
1966
Assault on a Queen
5.5/23
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the...
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Assault on a Queen
1962
Period of Adjustment
5.7/19
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
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Period of Adjustment
1957
A Hatful of Rain
6.8/24
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
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A Hatful of Rain
1967
Fathom
6.1/31
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas Campbel...
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Fathom
1959
The Story on Page One
5.1/4
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
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The Story on Page One
1979
Firepower
5/22
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
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Firepower
1971
Web of the Spider
5.8/22
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds him...
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Web of the Spider
1983
Julie Darling
6.6/26
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
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Julie Darling
1977
Curse of the Black Widow
5/16
Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons.....
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Curse of the Black Widow
1957
Wild Is the Wind
6.8/10
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his...
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Wild Is the Wind
1964
The Pleasure Seekers
5.1/7
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Pa...
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The Pleasure Seekers
1957
This Could Be the Night
5.5/10
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
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This Could Be the Night
1966
The Swinger
5.4/9
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
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The Swinger
1958
The Naked Maja
6/5
A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
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The Naked Maja
1971
Earth II
5.3/11
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered...
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Earth II
2005
Facing the Past
0/0
Documentary about the film 'A Face in the Crowd'.
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Facing the Past
1961
Go Naked in the World
5/9
A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.
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Go Naked in the World
1966
A Man Could Get Killed
3.8/6
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon afte...
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A Man Could Get Killed
1962
Careless
7.4/8
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and...
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Careless
1959
Career
6.4/12
Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, directed by Joseph Anthony. In this simplistic, back...
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Career
1968
A Man Called Gannon
4.5/4
A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.
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A Man Called Gannon
1968
In Enemy Country
8/2
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
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In Enemy Country
1989
Ghost Writer
4.2/10
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously,...
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Ghost Writer
1990
Backstreet Dreams
5/6
Caught in the web of inner city violence, extortion and drugs, Dean Costello is a small-time gangster with big-time dreams for himself and his autisti...
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Backstreet Dreams
1973
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
4.2/6
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more an...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
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
1974
This Is the West That Was
0/0
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
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This Is the West That Was
1966
Fame Is the Name of the Game
8/1
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names conta...
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
1992
Double Threat
3.6/5
A former movie star, Monica Scott, returns to the big screen along with younger boyfriend, Eric Cline, after a long absence. Monica is very jealous of...
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Double Threat
1979
The World Is Full of Married Men
5.3/3
David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfri...
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The World Is Full of Married Men
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/2
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1982
Kiss My Grits
4.7/3
A man heads for Mexico with a mobster's girlfriend.
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Kiss My Grits
1989
Fashion Crimes
4.1/6
On her way home, a fashion model, Gloria, saw a man fought against a woman and killed her in a strangely noisy room in the old villa where a German Co...
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Fashion Crimes
1986
Stagecoach
5.5/23
Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Mar...
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Stagecoach
1981
Side Show
7/1
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secrets of the fellow performers.
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Side Show
1981
Help Me Dream
7.5/3
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the vill...
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Help Me Dream
2003
Rita
8.5/2
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
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Rita
1975
Matt Helm
0/0
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involve...
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Matt Helm
2003
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
6/1
Bonus DVD accompanying the special edition CD "The Movie Album". The DVD contains Barbra performing "Wild Is The Wind" & "I'm In The Mood For Love", w...
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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2018
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
5.8/9
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
1987
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
7.3/3
A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
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Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
1982
Tenebre
6.9/603
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
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Tenebre
1998
Anthony Quinn - A Lust for Life
0/0
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Anthony Quinn - A Lust for Life
1972
The Catcher
6/1
An ex-cop and a Harvard graduate team up to become bounty hunters.
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The Catcher
1971
The Deadly Hunt
0/0
A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire helps them escape.
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The Deadly Hunt
1970
The Enemy Before Us
0/0
Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can't go home again".
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The Enemy Before Us
1996
City Hall
5.9/280
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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City Hall
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0/0
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
1997
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
0/0
Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities f...
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