James Grover Franciscus (January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991) was an American actor, known for his roles in feature films and in four television series: Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, and Longstreet.
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James Franciscus Biography / Wiki
| Name | James Franciscus |
| Also Know | James Grover Franciscus, James Francicus, Jim Franciscus |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Clayton, Missouri, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1934-01-31 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 57 |
| Deathday | 1991-07-08 |
James Franciscus Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Brent | 1970-04-23 | The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission discovers a planet ruled by apes, and an underground city run by telepathic humans…. |
| The Last Shark | Peter Benton | 1981-04-02 | When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to a… |
| The Valley of Gwangi | Tuck | 1969-07-24 | A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an exp… |
| Concorde Affair | Moses Brody | 1979-03-23 | A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline’s plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have th… |
| Youngblood Hawke | Youngblood Hawke | 1964-11-04 | An unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women (Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page)…. |
| Night Slaves | Clay Howard | 1970-09-29 | A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of town every night… he seems to be the only one un… |
| The Trial of Chaplain Jensen | Chaplain Andrew Jensen | 1975-02-11 | Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery…. |
| Longstreet | Mike Longstreet | 1971-02-23 | The pilot for the 1971 – 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an e… |
| Great Transport | John Mason | 1983-07-04 | This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodin… |
| Shadow Over Elveron | Dr. Matthew Tregaskis | 1968-03-05 | A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, th… |
| Under the Law: The Hitchhike | 1973-01-01 | After receiving an anonymous phone call, the cops pick up a young woman who is wandering around alone in the desert. She tells them that she was given… | |
| Hell Boats | Lt. Comdr. Jeffords, R.N.V.R. | 1970-03-20 | A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more spe… |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | 1973-10-23 | Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doe… |
| The Dream Makers | Sammy Stone | 1975-01-07 | A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal…. |
| Puzzle | Harry Scott | 1978-12-05 | Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue…. |
| The Cat o’ Nine Tails | Carlo Giordani | 1971-02-12 | A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in se… |
| The 500 Pound Jerk | Gil Davenport | 1973-01-02 | An advertising man’s dream of turning a huge hillbilly into an Olympic weightlifting champion is set back when the hillbilly falls for a Russian gymna… |
| Trial Run | Louis Coleman | 1969-01-18 | A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burden… |
| The Amazing Dobermans | Lucky | 1976-11-24 | An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Dept. agent stop a racketeer and his gang…. |
| The Outsider | Pvt. James B. Sorenson | 1961-12-27 | Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, w… |
| I Passed for White | Rick Leyton | 1960-03-18 | A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family…. |
| Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 1981-01-01 | Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into… |
| Aloha Means Goodbye | Dr. Lawrence Maddox | 1974-10-11 | A young woman who is battling a rare blood disease must also fight against a greedy doctor who needs a heart-transplant donor, and has her in mind…. |
| Four Boys and a Gun | Johnny Doyle | 1957-01-11 | The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn… |
| The Mugger | Eddie Baxter | 1958-11-01 | A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse…. |
| One of My Wives Is Missing | Daniel Corban | 1976-03-05 | Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban (James Franciscus) shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared…. |
| Marooned | Clayton Stone | 1969-12-11 | After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won’t activate. Af… |
| When Time Ran Out… | Bob Spangler | 1980-03-28 | An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property’s developer and a drilling fo… |
| Nightkill | Steve Fulton | 1980-12-18 | The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to e… |
| Good Guys Wear Black | Conrad Morgan | 1978-06-01 | The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is o… |
| Snow Treasure | 2nd Lt. H. Kalasch | 1968-10-04 | It is 1940 in Norway, a neutral, peace-loving country that is invaded by Nazi Germany. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian children like be… |
| Killer Fish | Paul Diller | 1979-12-07 | Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold…. |
| The Greek Tycoon | President James Cassidy | 1978-05-12 | A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president…. |
| Miracle of the White Stallions | Maj. Hoffman | 1963-03-29 | In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But … |
| City on Fire | Jimbo | 1979-07-11 | An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city…. |
| Secrets of Three Hungry Wives | Mark Powers | 1978-10-09 | When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game o… |
| Butterfly | Moke Blue | 1982-02-05 | Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative… |
| The Pirate | Dick Carriage | 1978-11-21 | An Israeli man, raised by a wealthy and powerful Arab, is put in charge of his country’s vast oil fortunes. He comes into conflict with a fanatical te… |
| Secret Weapons | Victor Khudenko | 1985-03-03 | Soviet high school girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information…. |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Brent (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1971-05-20 | The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans… |
| La Classe américaine | Professor Hammond (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 | George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of… |
James Franciscus Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Heidi | Producer | 1968-11-17 | Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heid… |
| Jane Eyre | Producer | 1970-12-01 | Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many s… |
| 29th Street | Associate Producer | 1991-11-01 | After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police st… |
| Kidnapped | Producer | 1971-12-22 | Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he canno… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| 29th Street | Story | 1991-11-01 | After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police st… |
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