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All All. Sign In. Anthony Franciosa Actor. Play trailer Tenebrae The son of a construction worker and seamstress who divorced when he was a year old, he seldom saw his father after this and neither man really got to know the other. After graduating high school, during a visit to a YMCA to take a free dance lesson, Franciosa came across an audition for a play.

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Intrigued, he auditioned and was offered a part. Franciosa began acting professionally, taking his mother's maiden name as his stage name, and had his breakthrough in Calder Willingham 's play "End as a Man" , which opened off-Broadway at the Theatre de Lys on September 15, and transferred to Broadway on October 14 after 32 performances.

It was directed by Jack Garfein and co-starred Ben Gazzara who won a Theatre World Award and would appear in the movie version , both of whom were associated with the Actors Studio, as was Franciosa. His first wife, Beatrice Bakalyar, was a writer.

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In , he first appeared in the role that would make him famous: "Polo Pope", the brother of a heroin addict, in an Actors Studio workshop production of Michael V. Gazzo 's A Hatful of Rain Franciosa won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in for "Hatful" and, with his good looks, was a very hot commodity in Hollywood. Franciosa's career began to run out of momentum almost as quickly as it had started, as he rapidly developed a reputation as a combative personality, earning him a reputation as "difficult".

Although he starred in George Roy Hill 's adaptation of Tennessee Williams ' Period of Adjustment , by he was reduced to appearing in a TV series, Valentine's Day , which lasted a single season.