Anthony Franciosa Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Anthony Franciosa (October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006), usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career, was an American film, TV and stage actor. He made several feature films, including Career (1959) for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor/Drama and A Face in the Crowd (1957). In television, along with many minor parts, he played lead roles in five major TV series: the sitcom Valentine's Day (1964–65), drama The Name of the Game (1968–71), Search (1972–73), Matt Helm (1975) and Finder of Lost Loves (1984). However, he began as a successful stage actor, gaining a Tony Award nomination for the drug-addiction play A Hatful of Rain.He married four times. His last marriage—to Rita Theil—was his longest. It lasted 36 years. He had been married during 1957–1960 to Academy Award-winning actress Shelley Winters, who died five days before him.
Full Name
Anthony Franciosa
Net Worth
$4 Million
Date Of Birth
October 25, 1928
Died
January 19, 2006, Los Angeles, California, United States
Christopher Franciosa, Nina Franciosa, Marco Franciosa
Nicknames
Tony Franciosa, Franciosa, Tony
IMDB
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Drama Performance
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Movies
Tenebrae, The Long, Hot Summer, A Face in the Crowd, A Hatful of Rain, Rio Conchos, Wild Is the Wind, Period of Adjustment, This Could Be the Night, The Naked Maja, Across 110th Street, Death Wish II, Assault on a Queen, Go Naked in the World, The Pleasure Seekers, The Drowning Pool, The Story on Pa...
TV Shows
Finder of Lost Loves, Matt Helm, Search, The Name of the Game, Valentine's Day
Star Sign
Scorpio
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I went to Hollywood in the mid-'50s, and I would say I went out there a little too early. It was an incredible amount of attention, and I wasn't quite mature enough psychologically and emotionally for [it].
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According to ex-wife Judy Balaban, as recounted in her book "Bridesmaids," her father, Barney Balaban, then head of Paramount Pictures, strongly disapproved of her marriage to Franciosa. In retaliation, he initiated a private blackballing of Franciosa within the film industry, leading to a decline of A-projects being offered to Franciosa in the early 60s.
Was due to appear as American mob boss Charlie in The Long Good Friday (1980). After accepting the job and flying from Los Angeles to London to film, he was unhappy with some of the rewrites and just returned home. The part was then given to Eddie Constantine.
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His death came only five days after that of his ex-wife Shelley Winters (19 January 2006).
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Earned an acting scholarship and became an alumnus of Lee Strasberg's famed Actor's Studio, where he met future wife Shelley Winters.
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He was infamous on and off the set for his hot temper.
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Son of a construction worker and seamstress who divorced when he was a year old. He seldom saw his father after this.
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First wife Beatrice Bakalyar was a writer.
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A fervent civil rights activist, he was joined by Marlon Brando and Paul Newman in Gadsden, Alabama in 1963 for a desegregation drive.
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.
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Studied at the Actors Studio and the New School for Social Research.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1956 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "A Hatful of Rain," a role he recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version with the same name, A Hatful of Rain (1957).
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.
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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), 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), 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.
