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Steve Franken is a Actor American born on 27 may 1932 at Brooklyn (USA)

Steve Franken

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Birth name Stephen Robert Franken
Nationality USA
Birth 27 may 1932 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 24 august 2012 (at 80 years) at Canoga Park, Los Angeles (USA)

Stephen Robert "Steve" Franken (May 27, 1932 – August 24, 2012) was an American actor who appeared on screen and television for a half century. He was a cousin of United States Senator Al Franken of Minnesota.

Biography

Steve Franken est le fils d'un attaché de presse à Hollywood. Il est né à Brooklyn dans la ville de New York.


Carrière
Sa première apparition à l'écran a lieu en 1958 dans le rôle de Willie dans l'épisode The Time of Your Life de la série à succès de CBS : Playhouse 90. Son premier rôle est obtenu dans l'épisode 161 de la série western d'ABC The Rebel intitulé « The Pit », avec la présence de la vedette Nick Adams. En 1961, il continue ses débuts dans la télévision comme guest star dans l'épisode The Case of Willie Betterley de la série Lock-Up. Puis, en 1962, il devient Dunc Tomilson dans l'épisode « The Yacht-Club Gang » dans la série dramatique de CBS : Échec et mat. Il apparait également comme Jerry Allen dans deux épisodes dans la série de NBC : Mr. Novak.

Le producteur Rodney Amateau le voit à Los Angeles dans Say, Darling et lui propose le rôle récurrent de Chatsworth Osborne Junior dans Dobie Gillis, une série télévisée de CBS. Steve Franken apparait alors dans de nombreux épisodes à partir du milieu de la première saison et jusqu'à la fin de la quatrième saison entre 1960 et 1963.

Cependant, il commence à se sentir catalogué, il cherche alors à jouer des mauvais rôles. Toutefois, il a joué le personnage d'une personne riche dans la série télévisée de courte durée Tom, Dick and Mary, et entame ensuite une longue carrière à la fois à la télévision et au cinéma. C'est ainsi qu'en 1963, Steve Franken apparaît dans le célèbre épisode de Perry Mason intitulé « The Case of the Deadly Verdict » dans le rôle de Christopher Barton, qui se révèle être le véritable meurtrier.



Peu après l'annulation de Dobie Gillis, Steve Franken devient le lieutenant Samwell « Sanpan » Panosian dans la série de Gary Lockwood : The Lieutenant, qui également la première série télévisée créée par Gene Roddenberry. Il a également joué d'autres rôles militaires, comme celui de l'aviateur américain décoré, et qui devient un marchand d'armes et un traître dans l'épisode The Gun Runner Raid de la série Les Rats du désert ou comme un lieutenant prisonnier de guerre dans le film de Fred MacMurray : Demain des hommes. C'est ainsi que de 1966 à 1971, il apparaît dans divers rôles dans au moins six épisodes de la série Ma sorcière bien-aimée sur ABC.

Steve Franken apparait dans le rôle d'un serveur ivre en 1968 dans le film de Blake Edwards : La Party aux côtés de Peter Sellers.

De 1970 à 1973, il joue cinq fois dans Love, American Style sur ABC. Dans le même temps, il devient l'officier Albert Porter entre 1971 à 1972 dans trois épisodes d'Auto-patrouille, série télévisée diffusée par NBC. En 1979, il incarne Tom Voorhies aux côtés de Michael Constantine dans The North Avenue Irregulars produit par Disney. Puis, il apparaît une nouvelle fois dans un rôle l'opposant à Peter Sellers dans les années 1980 dans Le Complot diabolique du docteur Fu Manchu.

Il apparaît et dirige diverses épisodes de la « série d'anthologie » à thème religieux : Insight. Il apparait dans de petits rôles dans d'autres séries télévisées contemporaines comme Murphy Brown, Un gars du Queens et Seinfeld. De 2002 à 2003, il prête sa voix pour le jeu vidéo New York, police judiciaire. Il était déjà la voix du professeur Eugene Atwa-ter en 1996 dans la série animée de courte durée Road Rovers de la Warner Bros.. À sa doublage s'ajoute la voix de Rundle en 1993 dans l'épisode de Batman intitulé « Le Super Mécanicien » et celle de M. Beal dans les épisodes Little Miss Popular et Comedy of Terrors de la série télévisée Detention en 1999. L'année suivante, il est M. Janus dans un épisode de Grounded, mais il a aussi prêté sa voix auparavant dans Les Schtroumpfs (1981), dans The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1990) et Spawn (1997).


Décès
Steve Franken est décédé le 24 août 2012, dans un centre de soins infirmiers et de réadaptation à Canoga Park en Californie, des complications d'un cancer à l'âge de 80 ans. Il laisse seul sa femme Jean Franken et ses trois filles, dont deux sont issues de son mariage précédent avec Julia Carter.

Usually with

Jim Wynorski
Jim Wynorski
(5 films)
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
(2 films)
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
(2 films)
Damian Lee
Damian Lee
(1 films)
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Steve Franken (41 films)

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Actor

Angels & Demons, 2h18
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Roles Cardinal Colbert
Rating66% 3.349983.349983.349983.349983.34998
Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio (Carmen Argenziano) and Dr. Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) initiates the Large Hadron Collider and creates three vials of antimatter particles larger than any that have ever been produced before. Almost immediately, Father Silvano is killed and one of the vials of antimatter goes missing. At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church is mourning the sudden death of Pope Pius XVI in Rome and prepares for the papal conclave to elect the next Pope. The Camerlengo Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor) assumes temporary control of the Vatican. The Illuminati kidnap four of the 'preferiti' (the favourite cardinals to be elected pope) before the conclave enters seclusion and threaten to kill one candidate every hour and destroy all of Vatican City at midnight, using the missing vial of antimatter as a bomb. The Vatican summons symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) from Harvard University and Vittoria from CERN to help them save the four preferiti and locate the vial.
Point of Entry, 1h29
Directed by Stephen Bridgewater
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Holly Marie Combs, Patrick Muldoon, Roark Critchlow, Max Burkholder, Richard Roundtree, Traci Lords
Roles Percy
Rating48% 2.413362.413362.413362.413362.41336
Richard et Kathy ont décidé de changer de vie. Ils déménagent dans l'Arizona avec leur fils Sam dans une belle et grande maison. Et tous ont récemment subi un traumatisme : Kathy a été agressée à son domicile. Peu à peu, Kathy se reconstruit et parvient à trouver un travail auprès d'un auteur célèbre, Caleb Theroux. Parallèlement, Miles Porter, un inspecteur de la police, est à la recherche d'un meurtrier qui a laissé un livre étrange à côté du corps de la victime.
The Trumpet of the Swan, 1h15
Directed by Richard Rich
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films about birds, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jason Alexander, Mary Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon, Seth Green, Carol Burnett, Joe Mantegna
Roles Bud
Rating50% 2.517422.517422.517422.517422.51742
Based on E. B. White's popular children's book of the same name, it tells the story of a young trumpeter swan who is born with muteness and is vying for the attention of a beautiful pen. He overcomes this by learning to play the trumpet.
Crash Point Zero, 1h33
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Treat Williams, John Beck, Julie St. Claire, Hannes Jaenicke, Susan Blakely, Ava Fabian
Roles Stuart Elliott
Rating34% 1.738731.738731.738731.738731.73873
In the heart of Siberia, Dr. Maurice Hunter, a famous amateur archeologist, his daughter Nadia, and their group of guides are taking part in an expedition to locate a fabled death ray created by inventor Nikola Tesla. The team eventually finds the death ray hidden in a mountain cave. The guides are being paid to kill the Hunters and steal the death ray. Before they can murder the pair, however, Dr. Hunter activates the death ray.
Agent Red
Agent Red (2000)
, 1h35
Directed by Jim Wynorski, Damian Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Dolph Lundgren, Alexander Kuznetsov, Dr. Stephen Macht, Natalie Radford, Randolph Mantooth, Andrew Stevens
Roles General Socka
Rating34% 1.7247951.7247951.7247951.7247951.724795
Le capitaine Matt Hendricks et le Dr Linda Christian sont enfermés dans un sous-marin avec des terroristes russes qui menacent de lancer un virus chimique sur le territoire américain.
Nurse Betty, 1h35
Directed by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Tia Texada
Roles Administrator
Rating62% 3.1483853.1483853.1483853.1483853.148385
In a small Kansas town, Betty (Renée Zellweger), a kind and considerate diner waitress, is a fan of the soap opera A Reason to Love. She has no idea that her husband, Del (Aaron Eckhart), a car salesman, is having an affair with his secretary and that he intends to leave Betty to pursue a relationship with the secretary. She also doesn't know that her husband supplements his income by selling drugs out of the car dealership. When she calls to leave a message about borrowing a Buick LeSabre for her birthday, her husband tells Betty to take a different car, as the LeSabre (unknown to Betty) has stolen drugs hidden in the trunk.
The Omega Code, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Ironside, Devon Odessa, Jan Tříska
Roles Jeffries
Rating35% 1.758851.758851.758851.758851.75885
In Jerusalem, a rabbi named Rostenburg is using software he designed to decode seventy eschatological prophecies hidden within the Torah. Rostenburg handwrote each one he found in a journal, to be entered into the program for deciphering. The program deciphers a prophecy which says that he is about to die; immediately, he tears the page containing the final code from his journal, hiding it in his shirt pocket. He is then shot and killed by an assassin, who takes his journal and the optical disc containing the decoding program. After the assassin leaves, two mysterious men (later revealed to be two prophets) retrieve the journal page Rostenburg had hidden.
The Pandora Project, 1h29
Directed by John Terlesky, Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Daniel Baldwin, Erika Eleniak, Richard Tyson, Tony Todd, Jeff Yagher, Nikki Fritz
Roles Sam Davis
Rating36% 1.829131.829131.829131.829131.82913
Un escadron d'hélicoptères se dirige vers une base américaine secrète dans le désert africain. Dérober Pandora, un dispositif militaire très puissant, est le seul objectif de Bill Stenwick. Mais un homme ose se mettre en travers de sa route...
Munchie Strikes Back, 1h34
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Lesley-Anne Down, Andrew Stevens, Howard Hesseman, John Byner, Angus Scrimm, Steve Franken
Roles Professor Graves
Rating33% 1.658591.658591.658591.658591.65859
Because of the repercussions left from his last adventure, Munchie must appear before a celestial court presided over by Kronus (Angus Scrimm). The tribunal proceeds to blame Munchie for a number of historical calamities, including the sinking of Atlantis, the crash of the Hindenburg, the cataclysm of Vesuvius, the meltdown of Chernobyl. As punishment, he is sentenced to help single mom Linda McClelland (Lesley-Anne Down). Linda's son Chris (Trenton Knight) is the only one who can see Munchie, and Munchie and he become best buddies. Chris is the pitcher of a Little League team, and is being bullied by Brett Carlisle (Corey Mendelsohn), who is his rival in baseball as well as for the attentions of the girl-next-door Jennifer (Natanya Ross). While out of town on a business trip, Linda's boss makes improper advances to her. When she refuses his advances, he fires her. This creates financial hardship on the family. Munchie intervenes in their lives, making it so Chris has a perfect game and impresses Jennifer, and Linda finds a bag of money to prevent eviction. Munchie appears back before the tribunal, who assign his next punishment... to help Bill Clinton.
Never Forget, 1h34
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors Leonard Nimoy, Dabney Coleman, Blythe Danner, Paul Hampton, Jason Presson, Benji Gregory
Roles Dan Greenspan
Rating66% 3.3341353.3341353.3341353.3341353.334135
Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and she is a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts. When challenged by a hate group to prove that Jews were actually gassed at Auschwitz, Mel Mermelstein rises to the occasion with the support of his wife and children, in spite of the dangers to himself, his business, and his family. William John Cox (Dabney Coleman) provides legal help (pro bono) as a lawyer, originally a Roman Catholic from Texas.
Transylvania Twist, 1h30
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Teri Copley, Howard Morris, Jay Robinson, Angus Scrimm, Robert Vaughn, Monique Gabrielle
Roles Hans Hupp
Rating53% 2.6570552.6570552.6570552.6570552.657055
The film opens with two short sequences before the main story line begins, first a prologue, and then a mock television advertisement. In the prologue, a seemingly helpless young woman is pursued by Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, and Freddy Krueger; she is then chased into a cave and reappears a few seconds later with an item from each of the three. She then faces the camera and laughs (showing her fangs) and says, "Amateurs!" The advertisement sequence is for a "mortuary, crematory, cemetery" called "Death City" where a salesman tries selling viewers "new and used coffins", with the help of his assistant Lovely Rita.
Freeway
Freeway (1988)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer, Michael Callan, Clint Howard
Roles Lawyer
Rating50% 2.5128652.5128652.5128652.5128652.512865
Sarah 'Sunny' Harper becomes a witness to the work of a spree killer, shooting people on the freeway. First protected by a former cop named Frank Quinn, she later joins him trying to find the killer.
Can't Buy Me Love, 1h34
Directed by Steve Rash
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Teen movie
Actors Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Tina Caspary, Seth Green, Max Perlich
Roles Moda Clerk
Rating68% 3.4008053.4008053.4008053.4008053.400805
Ronald Miller (Dempsey) is a typical high school nerd living in Arizona. He has spent all summer mowing lawns to save up for a telescope. However, at an opportune moment he makes a deal with popular cheerleader Cynthia "Cindy" Mancini (Peterson) to "rent" her for $1,000. Cindy borrows a suede outfit that belongs to her mother, without her permission, and needs to replace it quickly after Quint (Cort McGown) accidentally spills red wine on Cindy at a party. Having few options except telling her Mom the truth, she reluctantly agrees to help him look "cool" by pretending to be his girlfriend for a month, even though she already has a boyfriend named Bobby who is away at his freshman year at the University of Iowa. Both agree never to reveal their financial arrangement.
Curse of the Pink Panther, 1h49
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Robert Loggia
Roles Harvey Hamilcard III
Rating43% 2.1571452.1571452.1571452.1571452.157145
While investigating the theft of the Pink Panther diamond (in the previous film Trail of the Pink Panther), Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), hailed as France's greatest detective, disappeared at sea during a plane crash. His former superior, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is pressured to oversee Operation Paragon and utilize Interpol's fictitious Huxley Huxley 600 computer Aldous to find the world's greatest detective to solve the crime.