Job TV, stage, and film actor
Years active 1955-2006
Top Roles Jeff Dillon, Tony Armotti, Bene, Vic Rossiter, Polo Pope
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Film Adaptation, Action, Adventure, Romance
Top TopicsBook-Based, Based on Play, Remake
Top Collaborators , , (Producer), (Director)
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Anthony Franciosa Overview:

Actor, Anthony Franciosa, was born Anthony Papaleo on Oct 25, 1928 in New York City, NY. Franciosa died at the age of 77 on Jan 19, 2006 in Los Angeles, CA .

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Although Franciosa was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1957Best ActorA Hatful of Rain (1957)PoloNominated
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Anthony Franciosa Quotes:

Tony Armotti: I spotted you the minute you opened your mouth.
Anne Leeds: I may have some sort of New England accent, if that's what you mean, but I can't help it any more than you can help your New York accent.
Tony Armotti: What New York accent?

Ralph Baitz: The human heart could never pass the drunk test. Take a human heart out of a human body, put legs on it and tell it to walk a straight line, and it couldn't. The heart could never pass a drunk test.

Tony Armotti: Do you know anything about the guy?
Anne Leeds: I know he's one of your best friends.
Tony Armotti: Well, if you had any sense, that should be enough.

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Best Actor Oscar 1957
WINNER
Alec Guinness
(as Colonel Nicholson)
in The Bridge on the River Kwai
Nominee
Marlon Brando
(as Major Lloyd Gruver)
in Sayonara
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(as Polo)
in A Hatful of Rain
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Charles Laughton
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in Witness for the Prosecution
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Anthony Franciosa Facts
His third ex-wife, Judy Balaban, is author of the book, "The Bridesmaids", about her friend, Grace Kelly. She served as a bridesmaid in the princess's wedding. Judy and Tony had a daughter, Nina Franciosa, together.
Troubled characters made him a Hollywood star in the 1950s and 60s but combative behavior on movie sets hampered his career. In 1957 he served 10 days in the Los Angeles County jail for slugging a press photographer.
Starred in the first TV-movie produced as a TV series pilot to be picked up as a regular series, the two-hour TV-movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) (TV), which was produced by Universal for N.B.C. Universal and N.B.C. were the same entities that pioneered the made-for-TV movie (with 1964's See How They Run (1964) (TV), the first full-length film produced especially for home television). The series, "The Name of the Game" (1968), debuted in 1968 with three leads: Franciosa, Gene Barry and Robert Stack. Franciosa subsequently was fired from the show and, instead of being replaced by one actor, was replaced by a series of actors filling in on his rotation including Robert Culp, Peter Falk, Darren McGavin and Robert Wagner.
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