Eduard Franz
Acting • Born 1902-10-31 – Died 1983-02-10
Biography
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
Filmography
110 credits
Man on the Ledge
Movie • 1955
Dr. Benson
The Thing from Another World
Movie • 1951
Dr. Stern
Hatari!
Movie • 1962
Doctor Sanderson
The Ten Commandments
Movie • 1956
Jethro
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie • 1951
Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
Hollow Triumph
Movie • 1948
Frederick Muller
The Iron Curtain
Movie • 1948
Maj. Semyon Kulin
Whirlpool
Movie • 1950
Martin Avery
Wake of the Red Witch
Movie • 1948
Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
Broken Lance
Movie • 1954
Two Moons
The Story of Ruth
Movie • 1960
Jehoam
Beachhead
Movie • 1954
Bouchard, French Planter
Madame Bovary
Movie • 1949
Rouault
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie • 1971
Col. / Gen. Tillery
The Unknown Man
Movie • 1951
Andrew Jason Layford
Dream Wife
Movie • 1953
Khan
The Indian Fighter
Movie • 1955
Red Cloud
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Movie • 1959
Jonathan Drake
The Magnificent Yankee
Movie • 1950
Louis Brandeis
Francis of Assisi
Movie • 1961
Pietro Bernardone
The Great Caruso
Movie • 1951
Giulio Gatti-Casazza
The Burning Hills
Movie • 1956
Jacob Lantz
Collector’s Item
Movie • 1957
Mr. Peasley
White Feather
Movie • 1955
Chief Broken Hand
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Movie • 1955
King Edward
Man Afraid
Movie • 1957
Carl Simmons
The Last of the Fast Guns
Movie • 1958
Padre Jose
Shadow in the Sky
Movie • 1952
The Doctor
One Minute to Zero
Movie • 1952
Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Everything I Have Is Yours
Movie • 1952
Phil Meisner
Outpost in Morocco
Movie • 1949
Emir of Bel-Rashad
Latin Lovers
Movie • 1953
Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
Beauty and the Beast
Movie • 1962
Orsini
The Jazz Singer
Movie • 1953
David Golding
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Movie • 1949
Gottfried Steiner
Sins of Jezebel
Movie • 1953
Ahab
Three for Jamie Dawn
Movie • 1956
Anton Karek
The Vicious Years
Movie • 1950
Emilio Rossi
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Movie • 1983
Old Man
The Big Moment
Movie • 1954
Dr. Berg
Emergency Wedding
Movie • 1950
Dr. Heimer
The Goldbergs
Movie • 1950
Alexander Abel
The du Pont Story
Movie • 1950
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Sign of the Pagan
Movie • 1954
Astrologer
Francis
Movie • 1950
Colonel Plepper
The Last Command
Movie • 1955
Lorenzo de Quesada
Day of the Badman
Movie • 1958
Andrew Owens
Living It Up
Movie • 1954
Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
The Fiercest Heart
Movie • 1961
Hugo Baumon
A Certain Smile
Movie • 1958
Monsieur Vallon
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Movie • 1970
Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
Panic on the 5:22
Movie • 1974
Jerome Hartford
Because You're Mine
Movie • 1952
Albert Parkson Foster
The President's Analyst
Movie • 1967
Ethan Allen Cocket
Cyborg 2087
Movie • 1966
Prof. Sigmund Marx
Three Lives
Movie • 1953
Rabbi
Not One Shall Die
Movie • 1957
Mr. Selig
The Jazz Singer
Movie • 1959
Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Dr. Keeler
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Thomas Barlow
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Mannix
TV • 1967
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Amos Cartwright
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
David
Zorro
TV • 1957
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Justice Brandeis
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Mayor Arnold Opel
Vega$
TV • 1978
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Edward Roland
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Two Hawks
Adam's Rib
TV • 1973
Whittaker
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Emil
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. James Lifford
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Ford Theatre
TV • 1948
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Isaac Rankin
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Cimarron City
TV • 1958
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Samuel Morse
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Breaking Point
TV • 1963
Treasury Men in Action
TV • 1950
Ed Emery
Panic!
TV • 1957
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Jules Silberg
ABC Afterschool Special
TV • 1972
Grandpa
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Rev. Travers
Startime
TV • 1959
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
Dr. Paul Aldrich
DuPont Show of the Month
TV • 1957
Dunn
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Rudolph Klahr
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Judge John Kendall
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
R.S. Thomasek
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Prof. Randall
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
John Castleberry
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Father Pierre
Assignment: Vienna
TV • 1972
Professor Hayes
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Bayard Cole
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Professor MacKinnon
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
TV • 1960
Mr. Balzar
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dr. Skinner
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Premier Thor Halvorsen