Arthur Franz (born February 29, 1922 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey), passed away June 17, 2006 at the age of 84 from emphysema and heart disease. He was a B-movie actor that appeared in a number of films in the 1950s including Invaders from Mars (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) and The Unholy Wife (1957) playing a priest. In 1952's The Sniper, Franz played a rare movie lead in the films title role as a tourmented killer. Franz's last film role was in That Championship Season (1982). Image File history File links Arthur_Franz. ... Image File history File links Arthur_Franz. ... February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ... Perth Amboy is a City located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Invaders from Mars is a 1953 science fiction motion picture. ... Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is a 1951 film starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Nancy Guild. ... Movie poster for The Unholy Wife The Unholy Wife is a color 1957 drama film written and directed by John Farrow. ... The Sniper is a 1952 black-and-white B-movie. ... That Championship Season is 1999 television film about a four members of a championship high school basketball team, along with their coach, that reunite 20 years later. ...
Franz has been prominently featured in a number of "fantastic" films: he played one-third of the title role in Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), and had leads in Flight to Mars (1952), Invaders From Mars (1953), and The Atomic Submarine (1960).
The woman's husband (ArthurFranz) and his sister (Marsha Hunt) decide to infiltrate the cult in order to put an end to its murderous practices, but it is only through the intervention of a former cultist (Marianne Stewart) that they are able to overthrow the evil master's reign of terror once and for all.
ArthurFranz costars as a jet pilot assigned to the copter service, who at first resents being a non-com but eventually realizes his importance in the scheme of things.
Born in New Jersey, Franz worked on stage and in radio before his film debut in Jungle Patrol (1948), as one of a squadron stranded on a remote Pacific island during the second world war.
Franz played an astronaut in Flight to Mars (1951), the first spaceship movie in colour, a cheap remake of the 1924 Russian film, Aelita, in which he falls for a Martian in a silver minidress with pointy shoulders.
Franz, whose third wife of 52 years, the actor Doreen Lang, died in 1999, is survived by his fourth wife and three children.
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