Vale: Steve Franken
US character actor Steve Franken, best known for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Bewitched and The Party has died, aged 80.
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US character actor Steve Franken, best known for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Bewitched and The Party has died, aged 80.
Franken’s career spanned almost 60 years with more than 150 film and TV appearances. He played played millionaire ‘Chatsworth Osborne Jr.’ on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis from 1959-1963 and had characters in seven episodes of Bewitched.
He also appeared on Love, American Style five times and had guest shots in other series including Petticoat Junction, My Favorite Martian, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, The Patty Duke Show, McHale’s Navy, That Girl, The Mod Squad, Quincy ME, The Love Boat, CHiPs, Simon and Simon, Adam-12, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Charlie’s Angels, Diff’rent Strokes, Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, Hotel, Seinfeld, ER, Murphy Brown, and The King of Queens.
Film roles included the the increasingly inebriated waiter on The Party, plus The Americanization of Emily, Panic in the City, Which Way to the Front?, Westworld, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The Missouri Breaks, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, Curse of the Pink Panther , Nurse Betty, Angels & Demons and Reach, not yet released.
Franken died of cancer in Los Angeles.
Source: Hollywood Reporter, IMDb
- Tagged with Adam-12, Barney Miller, Bewitched, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs, Diff'rent Strokes, ER, Hill Street Blues, Hotel, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Love American Style, McHale's Navy, Murphy Brown, My Favorite Martian, Petticoat Junction, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Quincy ME, Seinfeld, Simon and Simon, That Girl, The King of Queens, The Love Boat, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Mod Squad, The Patty Duke Show
4 Responses
He was unforgettable as that waiter in The Party.
Vale Steve Franken R.I.P. A great comic face and what a great CV!
I remember his Chatsworth Osborne Jr character from Dobie Gillis very well. He was great in that show.
What a great role he had in the party – one of the highlights of a classic movie. Also remember him in Bewitched,from memory he played a dorky warlock in one role. Don’t remember him from king of queens though?