Eduard Franz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 31, 1902
- Died
- February 10, 1983 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Movie · as Old Man
Hart to Hart
TV · 2 eps
Vega$
TV · 1 ep
The Bionic Woman
TV · 1 ep
Panic on the 5:22
Movie · as Jerome Hartford
Adam's Rib
TV · as Whittaker · 1 ep
The Rookies
TV · 1 ep
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · 1 ep
The Waltons
TV · 2 eps
ABC Afterschool Special
TV · as Grandpa · 1 ep
Assignment: Vienna
TV · as Professor Hayes · 1 ep
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie · as Col. / Gen. Tillery
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Movie · as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Thomas Barlow, Professor MacKinnon · 1 ep
Medical Center
TV · 1 ep
The President's Analyst
Movie · as Ethan Allen Cocket
Mannix
TV · 1 ep
The Invaders
TV · as Premier Thor Halvorsen · 2 eps
Cyborg 2087
Movie · as Prof. Sigmund Marx
The F.B.I.
TV · as Dr. Keeler, Rudolph Klahr · 1 ep
The Fugitive
TV · as Edward Roland · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · 1 ep
Breaking Point
TV · 30 eps
Hatari!
Movie · as Doctor Sanderson
Beauty and the Beast
Movie · as Orsini
The Virginian
TV · as Two Hawks · 1 ep
Stoney Burke
TV · 1 ep
Francis of Assisi
Movie · as Pietro Bernardone
The Fiercest Heart
Movie · as Hugo Baumon
Ben Casey
TV · 2 eps
The Story of Ruth
Movie · as Jehoam
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV · as Dr. Paul Aldrich · 1 ep
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
TV · as Mr. Balzar · 1 ep
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Movie · as Jonathan Drake
The Jazz Singer
Movie · as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
Rawhide
TV · as Mayor Arnold Opel · 1 ep
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV · as Jules Silberg · 1 ep
Startime
TV · as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz · 1 ep
The Last of the Fast Guns
Movie · as Padre Jose
Day of the Badman
Movie · as Andrew Owens
A Certain Smile
Movie · as Monsieur Vallon
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Isaac Rankin, Bayard Cole · 1 ep
Cimarron City
TV · 1 ep
Collector’s Item
Movie · as Mr. Peasley
Man Afraid
Movie · as Carl Simmons
Not One Shall Die
Movie · as Mr. Selig
Zorro
TV · 5 eps
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 1 ep
Panic!
TV · 1 ep
DuPont Show of the Month
TV · as Dunn · 1 ep
The Ten Commandments
Movie · as Jethro
The Burning Hills
Movie · as Jacob Lantz
Three for Jamie Dawn
Movie · as Anton Karek
Man on the Ledge
Movie · as Dr. Benson
The Indian Fighter
Movie · as Red Cloud
White Feather
Movie · as Chief Broken Hand
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Movie · as King Edward
The Last Command
Movie · as Lorenzo de Quesada
Gunsmoke
TV · as Amos Cartwright, Judge John Kendall · 1 ep
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · 2 eps
Broken Lance
Movie · as Two Moons
Beachhead
Movie · as Bouchard, French Planter
The Big Moment
Movie · as Dr. Berg
Sign of the Pagan
Movie · as Astrologer
Living It Up
Movie · as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
Climax!
TV · as Dr. James Lifford, Dr. Skinner · 1 ep
Dream Wife
Movie · as Khan
Latin Lovers
Movie · as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
The Jazz Singer
Movie · as David Golding
Sins of Jezebel
Movie · as Ahab
Three Lives
Movie · as Rabbi
General Electric Theater
TV · as David, R.S. Thomasek · 2 eps
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Rev. Travers · 1 ep
Shadow in the Sky
Movie · as The Doctor
One Minute to Zero
Movie · as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Everything I Have Is Yours
Movie · as Phil Meisner
Because You're Mine
Movie · as Albert Parkson Foster
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Samuel Morse · 1 ep
The Thing from Another World
Movie · as Dr. Stern
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Movie · as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
The Unknown Man
Movie · as Andrew Jason Layford
The Great Caruso
Movie · as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Justice Brandeis · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Prof. Randall, John Castleberry · 2 eps
Whirlpool
Movie · as Martin Avery
The Magnificent Yankee
Movie · as Louis Brandeis
The Vicious Years
Movie · as Emilio Rossi
Emergency Wedding
Movie · as Dr. Heimer
The Goldbergs
Movie · as Alexander Abel
The du Pont Story
Movie · as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Francis
Movie · as Colonel Plepper
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Emil, Father Pierre · 1 ep
Treasury Men in Action
TV · as Ed Emery · 1 ep
Madame Bovary
Movie · as Rouault
Outpost in Morocco
Movie · as Emir of Bel-Rashad
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Movie · as Gottfried Steiner
Hollow Triumph
Movie · as Frederick Muller
The Iron Curtain
Movie · as Maj. Semyon Kulin
Wake of the Red Witch
Movie · as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
Ford Theatre
TV · 1 ep