Stephen Robert Franken

 Stephen Robert Franken (May 27, 1932 – August 24, 2012)

He was an actor who appeared on screen and television for a half century. His first screen role was in 1958 as "Willie" in the episode "The Time of Your Life" on the CBS anthology series, Playhouse 90. Another early role was as "Bully" in the 1961 episode "The Pit" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. On Dobie Gillis, which ran from 1959-63 on CBS, Franken played Chatsworth Osborne Jr., a millionaire dilettante who spars with Dobie (Hickman) and Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Franken also had a supporting role in the 1963-64 NBC drama The Lieutenant, the first series created by Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry. He played six characters in seven episodes of ABC’s Bewitched, appeared on Love, American Style five times and had guest shots in other series including McHale’s Navy, That Girl, The Mod Squad, Adam-12, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Charlie’s Angels, Barney Miller, Hotel, Seinfeld and The King of Queens. He had film roles in The Party (1968) and roles in The Americanization of Emily (1964), Panic in the City (1968), Which Way to the Front? (1970), Westworld (1973), among other movies. Franken died on August 24, 2012, at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, California, of complications from cancer, aged 80. He was married twice, and had three daughters, two from his first marriage. Franken was cremated.