Editing Anthony Franciosa (section)

===Later career===
Franciosa starred in the [[Aaron Spelling]]-produced series ''[[Finder of Lost Loves]]'' (1984–85). He could be seen in ''[[Stagecoach (1986 film)|Stagecoach]]'' (1986) and episodes of ''Hotel'', ''The Love Boat'', and ''[[Jake and the Fatman]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Bob |date=January 21, 2006 |title=Hollywood bad boy Anthony Franciosa, 77 |work=The Record}}</ref> In the 1985 revival of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'', he appeared in the third-season episode "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich", playing a gangster who is revealed to be the ultimate demon. Later performances included ''[[Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife]]'' (1987), ''[[Death House]]'' (1988), Fashion Crime (1989), ''Ghost Writer'' (1989), ''[[Backstreet Dreams (film)|Backstreet Dreams]]'' (1990), and Double Threat (1992). In 1990–91, he portrayed Colonel Doctor Otternschlag in the U.S. national tour of the musical ''Grand Hotel'' at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and other national tour locations.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Lloyd |date=December 7, 1990 |title=THEATER |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/12/07/theater/bfffc8d0-9077-4489-a4a0-2da98e0386f6/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 21, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Winifred |date=February 25, 1991 |title=Anthony Franciosa, the matinee idol under the makeup |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-02-25-1991056142-story.html |work=[[The Baltimore Sun|The Evening Sun]] |access-date=May 22, 2019}}</ref>

His final film was ''[[City Hall (1996 film)|City Hall]]'', a 1996 drama starring [[Al Pacino]] and [[John Cusack]], in which he portrayed a crime boss.<ref>{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |date=February 16, 1996 |title=FILM REVIEW;Dangerous Dealings In the Heart of New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/16/movies/film-review-dangerous-dealings-in-the-heart-of-new-york.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 22, 2019}}</ref>

In his autobiography ''The Garner Files'', actor [[James Garner]] stated that Franciosa, on the set of ''A Man Could Get Killed'', constantly abused the stunt crew by not pulling punches in fight scenes, resulting in a physical confrontation with Garner.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Garner Files | first1=James | last1=Garner | first2=Jon | author-link1=James Garner | last2=Winokur | publisher=Simon & Schuster | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-4516-4260-5 | page=255}}</ref>