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