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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 31, 1902
Died
February 10, 1983
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
- Eduard Franz Schmidt
- ادوارد فرانتس
Eduard Franz
0.5 Popularity
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
Known For
Credits
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Old Man
1983
6.5
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Vega$
1978
7.0
The Bionic Woman
1976
6.9
Panic on the 5:22
as Jerome Hartford
1974
5.3
Adam's Rib
as Whittaker
1973
5.0
ABC Afterschool Special
as Grandpa
1972
6.4
Assignment: Vienna
as Professor Hayes
1972
0.0
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
The Waltons
1972
7.2
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Johnny Got His Gun
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
1971
7.5
The Brotherhood of the Bell
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
1970
5.5
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Thomas Barlow
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Professor MacKinnon
1968
7.1
The President's Analyst
as Ethan Allen Cocket
1967
5.7
Mannix
1967
6.7
The Invaders
as Premier Thor Halvorsen
1967
6.8
Cyborg 2087
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
1966
5.8
The F.B.I.
as Dr. Keeler
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Rudolph Klahr
1965
5.4
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as Edward Roland
1963
7.2
Breaking Point
1963
7.2
Stoney Burke
1962
5.7
The Virginian
as Two Hawks
1962
6.4
Hatari!
as Doctor Sanderson
1962
6.8
Beauty and the Beast
as Orsini
1962
4.2
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Francis of Assisi
as Pietro Bernardone
1961
7.6
🎬
The Fiercest Heart
as Hugo Baumon
1961
5.0
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
as Mr. Balzar
1960
0.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dr. Paul Aldrich
1960
6.2
The Story of Ruth
as Jehoam
1960
7.4
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
as Jonathan Drake
1959
5.9
Startime
1959
6.0
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Jules Silberg
1959
6.3
Rawhide
as Mayor Arnold Opel
1959
7.2
Cimarron City
1958
5.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Isaac Rankin
1958
6.8
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Bayard Cole
1958
6.8
A Certain Smile
as Monsieur Vallon
1958
5.8
The Last of the Fast Guns
as Padre Jose
1958
5.4
Day of the Badman
as Andrew Owens
1958
6.5
Collector’s Item
as Mr. Peasley
1957
0.0
Zorro
1957
7.5
DuPont Show of the Month
as Dunn
1957
6.8
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
Man Afraid
as Carl Simmons
1957
5.8
Panic!
1957
0.0
Not One Shall Die
as Mr. Selig
1957
0.0
The Ten Commandments
as Jethro
1956
7.8
The Burning Hills
as Jacob Lantz
1956
6.0
Three for Jamie Dawn
as Anton Karek
1956
5.0
Man on the Ledge
as Dr. Benson
1955
0.0
The Indian Fighter
as Red Cloud
1955
6.2
Lady Godiva of Coventry
as King Edward
1955
5.3
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
Gunsmoke
as Amos Cartwright
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Judge John Kendall
1955
6.6
The Last Command
as Lorenzo de Quesada
1955
6.4
White Feather
as Chief Broken Hand
1955
6.6
Sign of the Pagan
as Astrologer
1954
5.2
Climax!
as Dr. James Lifford
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Dr. Skinner
1954
3.3
Broken Lance
as Two Moons
1954
6.4
Living It Up
as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
1954
6.4
The Big Moment
as Dr. Berg
1954
0.0
Beachhead
as Bouchard, French Planter
1954
5.6
Letter to Loretta
as Rev. Travers
1953
6.5
🎬
Three Lives
as Rabbi
1953
0.0
Sins of Jezebel
as Ahab
1953
4.8
Latin Lovers
as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
1953
4.3
Dream Wife
as Khan
1953
5.3
The Jazz Singer
as David Golding
1953
5.5
General Electric Theater
as David
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as R.S. Thomasek
1953
6.4
Everything I Have Is Yours
as Phil Meisner
1952
5.8
Cavalcade of America
as Samuel Morse
1952
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
Because You're Mine
as Albert Parkson Foster
1952
6.7
One Minute to Zero
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
1952
5.8
Shadow in the Sky
as The Doctor
1952
6.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Justice Brandeis
1951
8.6
The Unknown Man
as Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford
1951
4.8
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
1951
6.7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Prof. Randall
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as John Castleberry
1951
7.2
The Great Caruso
as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
1951
5.7
The Thing from Another World
as Dr. Stern
1951
6.7
The Goldbergs
as Alexander Abel
1950
7.0
The Magnificent Yankee
as Louis Brandeis
1950
5.4
🎬
The du Pont Story
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
1950
0.0
Emergency Wedding
as Dr. Heimer
1950
5.5
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Emil
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Father Pierre
1950
6.3
Treasury Men in Action
as Ed Emery
1950
6.0
The Vicious Years
as Emilio Rossi
1950
5.5
Francis
as Colonel Plepper
1950
5.6
Whirlpool
as Martin Avery
1950
6.4
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
as Gottfried Steiner
1949
4.7
Madame Bovary
as Rouault
1949
6.7
Outpost in Morocco
as Emir of Bel-Rashad
1949
4.8
Wake of the Red Witch
as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
1948
5.6
🎬
Ford Theatre
1948
0.0
Hollow Triumph
as Frederick Muller
1948
6.6
The Iron Curtain
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
1948
5.8