Character Actor Steve Franken Dies at 80
His film résumé includes a memorable slapstick turn as a drunken servant opposite Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards’The Party (1968) and roles in The Americanization of Emily(1964), Panic in the City (1968), Which Way to the Front?(1970), Westworld (1973), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud(1975), The Missouri Breaks (1976), The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Nurse Betty(2000), Angels & Demons (2009) and Reach, a movie not yet released.
On Dobie Gillis, which ran from 1959-63 on CBS, Franken played Chatsworth Osborne Jr., a millionaire dilettante who spars with Dobie (Hickman) and beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Chatsworth is introduced in the show’s first season as a cousin to Warren Beatty’s character, Milton Armitage. (Beatty left the series after one season.)