Anthony Franciosa

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Franciosa was born Anthony Papaleo on October 25, 1928, in New York City. The son of a construction worker and seamstress who divorced when he was a year old, he seldom saw his father after this and never man really got to know the other. After graduating high school, during a visit to a YMCA to take a free dance lesson, Franciosa came across an audition for a play. Intrigued, he auditioned and was offered a part.Franciosa began acting professionally, taking his mother's maiden name as his stage name, and had his breakthrough in Calder Willingham's play "End as a Man" (1955), which opened off-Broadway at the Theatre de Lys on September 15, 1953 and transferred to Broadway on October 14 after 32 performances. It was directed by Jack Garfein and co-starred Ben Gazzara (who won a Theatre World Award and would appear in the movie version), both of whom were associated with the Actors Studio, as was Franciosa. His first wife, Beatrice Bakalyar, was a writer.In 1955, he first appeared in the role that would make him famous: "Polo Pope", the brother of a heroin addict, in an Actors Studio workshop production of Michael V. Gazzo's Une poignée de neige (1957). The production later moved to Broadway, where Franciosa earned an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award nomination. Hollywood beckoned, and he made his film debut in Robert Wise's Cette nuit ou jamais (1957) with Paul Douglas and Jean Simmons.He appeared in Actors Studio co-founder Elia Kazan's Un homme dans la foule (1957) before reprising the role of "Polo Pope" in Fred Zinnemann's Une poignée de neige (1957). Franciosa won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 1958 for "Hatful" and, with his good looks, was a very hot commodity in Hollywood. He followed up his strong debut by starring in a variety of top A-list films, including George Cukor's Car sauvage est le vent (1957), Martin Ritt's Les feux de l'été (1958) and La maja nue (1958), in which he played painter Francisco Jose de Goya, opposite Ava Gardner.Franciosa's career began to run out of momentum almost as quickly as it had started, as he rapidly developed a reputation as a combative personality, earning him a reputation as "difficult". Although he starred in George Roy Hill's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' L'école des jeunes mariés (1962), by 1964 he was reduced to appearing in a TV series, Valentine's Day (1964), which lasted a single season. In 1968 he was cast as one of three alternating leads in the television series Les règles du jeu (1968), a spin-off from the 1966 TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) (the first TV-movie ever made as a pilot for a TV series that was subsequently picked up as a series). Although the show was popular with audiences, Franciosa was fired after appearing in the first two seasons; NBC justified giving him the sack because the actor's mercurial temper was causing too many problems on the set. Looking back at his career in a 1996 interview, Franciosa acknowledged that he was too inexperienced to handle sudden stardom. "It was an incredible amount of attention, and I wasn't quite mature enough psychologically and emotionally for it".He starred in the series Matt Helm: Matt Helm (1975), which only lasted one season, but his talent and charm meant he was in demand throughout the five decades of his career, though not in the kinds of roles that characterized the first two decades of his star period. He continued to act in supporting roles in movies and starring roles in TV movies and series until he retired in 1996. He appeared in one last project, "Manifest Mysteries: Coronation" (2006), shortly before his death on January 19, 2006 in Los Angeles, at the age of 77, five days after that of his ex-wife, actress Shelley Winters. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood

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Releases by Year

Anthony Franciosa on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1971 to 1995. See the full graphs of the number of Anthony Franciosa movies released per year from 1978 till 1995.

Top Genres

Anthony Franciosa works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 30% of Anthony Franciosa movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Anthony Franciosa worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Anthony Franciosa has worked on is 6.1.

6.1 / 10

Anthony Franciosa's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Born in Mexico, he became the main family provider when his father died in an accident. So began the story of a man who had a "thousand jobs" before acting in a film of Cecil B. DeMille - ...

7.3/1060 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Horror,Mystery,Thriller
Tenebrae (1982)

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

7/10101 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
Across 110th Street (1972)

Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

7/10102 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Fashion designer Marian falls in love and marries attorney Edward. Her idyllic romance and marriage are shattered when she learns that Edward is the son of a powerful and feared mafia ...

6.5/1093 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
The Drowning Pool (1975)

A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.

6.5/10108 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Horror
Julie Darling (1982)

A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.

6/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A private detective named Mark Higbie is on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons. He eventually tracks the killer's ...

5.7/10100 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

When Earth II, an orbiting research space station, is menaced by a Red Chinese nuclear weapon, its 2,000 inhabitants take action to disarm and dispose of the missile without resorting to violence.

5.6/10100 min

Available in 5 platform(s).