Arthur Sofield Franz (February 29, 1920 – June 17, 2006) was an American
B-movie and
television actor, whose most notable feature film role was as
Lieutenant, Junior Grade, H. Paynter Jr. in
The Caine Mutiny (1954). He also appeared in
Roseanna McCoy (1949),
Eight Iron Men (1952),
Invaders From Mars (1953),
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), and
The Unholy Wife (1957), among many others. In
The Sniper (1952), he played a rare lead in the film's title role as a tormented killer; earlier, he co-starred with
John Wayne in the WWII film
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and with
Ronald Reagan in
Hellcats of the Navy (1957).