Other works

TV commercial for Recording Artists, Actors And Athletes Against Drunk Driving (1999)

TV commercial for Cadillac Seville automobiles (1997)

TV commercial for Diet Pepsi ("this is diet?") (1997)

Print advertising for Milk (with Jimmy Smits) ("moustache") (1998)

(2000) Played Earl in The Dixie Chicks' video "Goodbye Earl" with Jane Krakowski playing abused wife, Wanda and Lauren Holly playing her best friend, Mary Ann.

Was one of the authors of the play "Bleacher Bums" premiered by Chicago's Organic Theater Company in 1977 and performed in New York the following year, with Franz creating in it the role of Zig.

TV commercial for Nextel Communications (2002)

Faith Hill, Britney Spears and *NSYNC was in Franz's group who read selections from Pope John II's private prayer/poem books for a CD that serves as a companion piece to "The Private Prayer Books of Pope John Paul II".

Radio commercial for Shady Brook Farms turkey (voice)

Radio commercial for Lexus (voice)

Recorded the audiobook for Steven Bochco's first novel, "Death by Hollywood". (2003)

(1976) He acted in the play, "Switch Bitch," at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois with Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Cordis Fejer, Richard Fire, William J. Norris, directed by Stuart Gordon.

(1977) He acted in the play, "Cops," at the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois, with Ian Williams. James Maronek was scenic designer.

(1998) Music video for "David Duchovny" by Bree Sharp - Himself

(August 3, 1977) He acted in Dennis Paoli and Joe Mantegna's play, "Bleacher Bums," in an Organic Theater Company production at the Leo Lerner Theater in Uptown, Chicago, Illinois with Joe Mantegna, Michael Saad, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Ian Williams, Richard Fire, Keith Szarabajka, and Roberta Custer in the cast. Stuart Gordon was director.