1. Stephen Robert Franken was an American actor who worked in film and television for over fifty years.
16 Facts About Steve Franken
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Steve Franken appeared as a recurring guest in numerous episodes from 1960 to 1963.
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Steve Franken attributed the character's look of pained condescension to an ulcer he had suffered since the age of 14 when his mother had died.
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Steve Franken played the lead guest-starring role in the 1961 episode "The Case of Willie Betterley" in Lock Up.
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Steve Franken appeared as Jerry Allen in two episodes of Mr Novak.
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Steve Franken appeared in 1964 on Petticoat Junction as the son of the villain, Homer Bedloe in "Bedloe and Son".
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Steve Franken appeared in the famous 1963 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" as Christopher Barton.
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Immediately after Dobie Gillis was cancelled, Steve Franken was cast as Lieutenant Samwell "Sanpan" Panosian in the Gary Lockwood series The Lieutenant episode "To Take Up Serpents", the first television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Steve Franken appeared as the drunken waiter Levinson in the 1968 Blake Edwards film The Party, alongside Peter Sellers.
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Steve Franken appeared on Barney Miller in 1975 and again in 1981.
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Steve Franken appeared with Peter Sellers in 1980's The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu.
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Steve Franken acted and directed in various episodes of Insight.
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Steve Franken appeared in small roles in such contemporary television series as Murphy Brown, The King of Queens and Seinfeld.
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Steve Franken died on August 24,2012, at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, California, of complications from cancer, aged 80.
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Steve Franken had three daughters, two from his first marriage to Julia Carter, and one from his second marriage to Jean Garrett.
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Steve Franken was the second cousin of actor and politician Al Franken.