Arthur Franz

Arthur Franz February 29 1920 in Perth Amboy New Jersey June 17 2006 was a Bmovie 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 films 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 FBI 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 Franzs last film role was in That Championship Season in 1982 Franzs interest in acting developed when he was a high school student During World War II Franz served as a B24 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia