Eduard Franz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eduard Franz (born Eduard Franz Schmidt; October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1987) was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Koster's The Story of Ruth (1960). By 1936, Franz was a player on the national stage, performing from coast to coast. He became a leading Broadway actor for nearly 30 years, in such plays as First Stop to Heaven and Embezzled Heaven and Conversation At Midnight. He made his film debut in a bit part, in 1947, in Killer at Large, but followed that brief appearance the next year with a memorable role in the motion picture The Scar (also titled Hollow Triumph). His fourth movie saw him acting with John Wayne in Wake of the Red Witch, in 1948. He portrayed Chief Broken Hand in White Feather. He played such intellectuals as Dr. Stern in The Thing from Another World (1951), a university professor in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and Justice Louis Brandeis in The Magnificent Yankee (1950), a role he reprised in the 1965 television adaptation. He appeared in a 1957 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel Beyond This Place, which was directed by Sidney Lumet. Franz performed as well in two separate remakes of Al Jolson's 1927 cinema classic The Jazz Singer, each time playing the key role of the aged and ailing synagogue cantor upset by his son's decision to pursue a secular show-business career rather than continue the family tradition and follow in his father's religious footsteps. Those remakes were the 1952 film version of the story starring Danny Thomas and the 1959 television version starring Jerry Lewis. Franz performed in a number of television series, including Gunsmoke; Have Gun - Will Travel; The Law and Mr. Jones; The Barbara Stanwyck Show and Cimarron City. Franz was cast as psychiatric clinic director Dr. Edward Raymer in 30 episodes of the weekly ABC medical drama Breaking Point

Known For: Acting

Born: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1902-10-31

Died: 1983-02-10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Iron Curtain	Maj. Semyon Kulin	58
2	1948	Hollow Triumph	Frederick Muller	65
3	1948	Wake of the Red Witch	Harmenszoon Van Schreeven	56
4	1949	Outpost in Morocco	Emir of Bel-Rashad	48
5	1949	Madame Bovary	Rouault	68
6	1949	Oh, You Beautiful Doll	Gottfried Steiner	47
7	1950	Whirlpool	Martin Avery	65
8	1950	Francis	Colonel Plepper	55
9	1950	The Vicious Years	Emilio Rossi	55
10	1950	Emergency Wedding	Dr. Heimer	55
11	1950	The Du Pont Story	Eleuthère Irénée du Pont	0
12	1950	The Magnificent Yankee	Louis Brandeis	54
13	1950	The Goldbergs	Alexander Abel	70
14	1951	The Thing from Another World	Dr. Stern	67
15	1951	The Great Caruso	Giulio Gatti-Casazza	57
16	1951	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel	Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg	67
17	1951	The Unknown Man	Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford	48
18	1952	Shadow in the Sky	The Doctor	66
19	1952	One Minute to Zero	Dr. Gustav Engstrand	58
20	1952	Because You're Mine	Albert Parkson Foster	67
21	1952	Everything I Have Is Yours	Phil Meisner	58
22	1953	The Jazz Singer	David Golding	55
23	1953	Dream Wife	Khan	55
24	1953	Latin Lovers	Dr. Lionel Y. Newman	46
25	1953	Sins of Jezebel	Ahab	45
26	1953	Three Lives	Rabbi	0
27	1954	Beachhead	Bouchard, French Planter	54
28	1954	The Big Moment	Dr. Berg	0
29	1954	Living It Up	Dr. Nassau (uncredited)	64
30	1954	Broken Lance	Two Moons	64
31	1954	Sign of the Pagan	Astrologer	52
32	1955	White Feather	Chief Broken Hand	66
33	1955	The Last Command	Lorenzo de Quesada	64
34	1955	Lady Godiva of Coventry	King Edward	55
35	1955	The Indian Fighter	Red Cloud	63
36	1955	Man on the Ledge	Dr. Benson	0
37	1956	Three for Jamie Dawn	Anton Karek	50
38	1956	The Burning Hills	Jacob Lantz	60
39	1956	The Ten Commandments	Jethro	78
40	1957	Not One Shall Die	Mr. Selig	0
41	1957	Man Afraid	Carl Simmons	58
42	1957	Collector’s Item	Mr. Peasley	0
43	1958	Day of the Badman	Andrew Owens	65
44	1958	The Last of the Fast Guns	Padre Jose	52
45	1958	A Certain Smile	Monsieur Vallon	58
46	1959	The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake	Jonathan Drake	59
47	1960	The Story of Ruth	Jehoam	73
48	1961	The Fiercest Heart	Hugo Baumon	50
49	1961	Francis of Assisi	Pietro Bernardone	76
50	1962	Beauty and the Beast	Orsini	42
51	1962	Hatari!	Doctor Sanderson	67
52	1966	Cyborg 2087	Prof. Sigmund Marx	58
53	1967	The President's Analyst	Ethan Allen Cocket	58
54	1970	The Brotherhood of the Bell	Dr. Konstantin Horvathy	54
55	1971	Johnny Got His Gun	Col. / Gen. Tillery	75
56	1974	Panic on the 5:22	Jerome Hartford	53
57	1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Old Man	65

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Ford Theatre		0
2	1950	Treasury Men in Action	Ed Emery	55
3	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Emil	63
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Father Pierre	63
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Prof. Randall	73
7	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	John Castleberry	73
8	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Justice Brandeis	86
9	1952	Cavalcade of America	Samuel Morse	35
10	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
11	1953	General Electric Theater	David	63
12	1953	General Electric Theater	R.S. Thomasek	63
13	1953	Letter to Loretta	Rev. Travers	65
14	1954	Climax!	Dr. James Lifford	33
15	1954	Climax!	Dr. Skinner	33
16	1955	Gunsmoke	Amos Cartwright	66
17	1955	Gunsmoke	Judge John Kendall	66
18	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
19	1957	Panic!		0
20	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
21	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Dunn	68
22	1957	Zorro		75
23	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Isaac Rankin	69
24	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Bayard Cole	69
25	1958	Cimarron City		50
26	1959	Rawhide	Mayor Arnold Opel	72
27	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Jules Silberg	63
28	1959	Startime		60
29	1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Dr. Paul Aldrich	62
30	1960	The Case of the Dangerous Robin	Mr. Balzar	0
31	1961	Ben Casey		56
32	1962	The Virginian	Two Hawks	65
33	1962	Stoney Burke		57
34	1963	Breaking Point		73
35	1963	The Fugitive	Edward Roland	72
36	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
37	1965	The F.B.I.	Dr. Keeler	55
38	1965	The F.B.I.	Rudolph Klahr	55
39	1967	The Invaders	Premier Thor Halvorsen	68
40	1967	Mannix		67
41	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Thomas Barlow	71
42	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Professor MacKinnon	71
43	1969	Medical Center		61
44	1972	The Rookies		68
45	1972	The Waltons		71
46	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
47	1972	Assignment: Vienna	Professor Hayes	0
48	1972	ABC Afterschool Special	Grandpa	64
49	1973	Adam's Rib	Whittaker	50
50	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
51	1978	Vega$		70
52	1979	Hart to Hart		68

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