Anthony Franciosa
Birthday: 1928-10-25
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Franciosa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident....
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A Face in the Crowd
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local medi...
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Zombie Death House
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors....
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Across 110th Street
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are...
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Rio Conchos
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on ...
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The Drowning Pool
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that ...
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The Long, Hot Summer
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates...
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The Cricket
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a ...
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Death Wish II
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter...
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Assault on a Queen
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large he...
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Period of Adjustment
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own....
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A Hatful of Rain
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family....
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Fathom
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in intern...
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The Story on Page One
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuf...
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Firepower
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to...
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Web of the Spider
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for ...
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Julie Darling
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her s...
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Curse of the Black Widow
Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly ...
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Wild Is the Wind
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her ba...
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The Pleasure Seekers
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie ...
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This Could Be the Night
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a ...
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The Swinger
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures....
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The Naked Maja
A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba...
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Earth II
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research ...
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Go Naked in the World
A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high...
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A Man Could Get Killed
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diam...
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Careless
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets An...
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Career
Playwright James Lee adapted his off-Broadway play for the screen in this high-strung adaptation, di...
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A Man Called Gannon
A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, an...
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In Enemy Country
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi str...
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Ghost Writer
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedl...
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Backstreet Dreams
Caught in the web of inner city violence, extortion and drugs, Dean Costello is a small-time gangste...
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, ...
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The Sweet Ride
AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline B...
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This Is the West That Was
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is...
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary ...
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Double Threat
A former movie star, Monica Scott, returns to the big screen along with younger boyfriend, Eric Clin...
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The World Is Full of Married Men
David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is ...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Fashion Crimes
On her way home, a fashion model, Gloria, saw a man fought against a woman and killed her in a stran...
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Stagecoach
Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's preg...
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Side Show
A teenage boy who runs off to join the circus as a side show puppeteer stumbles onto the dark secret...
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Help Me Dream
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to...
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Matt Helm
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired...
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Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album
Bonus DVD accompanying the special edition CD "The Movie Album". The DVD contains Barbra performing ...
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers...
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Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don....
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Tenebre
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American myste...
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The Deadly Hunt
A young couple on a forest holiday become unwitting targets for paid killers, and a forest fire help...
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The Enemy Before Us
Jeff Dillon decides to revisit the scenes of his impoverished youth, and learns sadly that "you can'...
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City Hall
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends ...
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Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger
This inspiring documentary follows the life and times of Dr. John-Roger - NY Times #1 Bestselling Au...
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