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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
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Filmography (Movies)
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Character:Old Man
Release Date:24/06/1983
Panic on the 5:22
Character:Jerome Hartford
Release Date:20/11/1974
Johnny Got His Gun
Character:Col. / Gen. Tillery
Release Date:04/08/1971
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Character:Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
Release Date:17/09/1970
The President's Analyst
Character:Ethan Allen Cocket
Release Date:21/12/1967
Cyborg 2087
Character:Prof. Sigmund Marx
Release Date:01/10/1966
Hatari!
Character:Doctor Sanderson
Release Date:19/06/1962
Beauty and the Beast
Character:Orsini
Release Date:01/03/1962
Francis of Assisi
Character:Pietro Bernardone
Release Date:12/07/1961
The Fiercest Heart
Character:Hugo Baumon
Release Date:30/04/1961
The Story of Ruth
Character:Jehoam
Release Date:17/06/1960
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Character:Jonathan Drake
Release Date:13/11/1959
The Jazz Singer
Character:Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
Release Date:13/10/1959
A Certain Smile
Character:Monsieur Vallon
Release Date:31/07/1958
The Last of the Fast Guns
Character:Padre Jose
Release Date:01/07/1958
Day of the Badman
Character:Andrew Owens
Release Date:29/01/1958
Collector’s Item
Character:Mr. Peasley
Release Date:01/12/1957
Man Afraid
Character:Carl Simmons
Release Date:04/04/1957
Not One Shall Die
Character:Mr. Selig
Release Date:01/01/1957
The Ten Commandments
Character:Jethro
Release Date:05/10/1956
The Burning Hills
Character:Jacob Lantz
Release Date:01/09/1956
Three for Jamie Dawn
Character:Anton Karek
Release Date:08/07/1956
Man on the Ledge
Character:Dr. Benson
Release Date:28/12/1955
The Indian Fighter
Character:Red Cloud
Release Date:21/12/1955
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Character:King Edward
Release Date:02/11/1955
The Last Command
Character:Lorenzo de Quesada
Release Date:03/08/1955
White Feather
Character:Chief Broken Hand
Release Date:16/02/1955
Sign of the Pagan
Character:Astrologer
Release Date:24/11/1954
Broken Lance
Character:Two Moons
Release Date:25/09/1954
Living It Up
Character:Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
Release Date:04/08/1954
The Big Moment
Character:Dr. Berg
Release Date:07/03/1954
Beachhead
Character:Bouchard, French Planter
Release Date:05/02/1954
Three Lives
Character:Rabbi
Release Date:17/09/1953
Sins of Jezebel
Character:Ahab
Release Date:04/09/1953
Latin Lovers
Character:Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
Release Date:12/08/1953
Dream Wife
Character:Khan
Release Date:19/06/1953
The Jazz Singer
Character:David Golding
Release Date:14/02/1953
Everything I Have Is Yours
Character:Phil Meisner
Release Date:31/10/1952
Because You're Mine
Character:Albert Parkson Foster
Release Date:01/10/1952
One Minute to Zero
Character:Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Release Date:19/09/1952
Shadow in the Sky
Character:The Doctor
Release Date:18/07/1952
The Unknown Man
Character:Andrew Jason Layford
Release Date:16/11/1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Character:Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
Release Date:16/10/1951
The Great Caruso
Character:Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Release Date:16/04/1951
The Thing from Another World
Character:Dr. Stern
Release Date:05/04/1951
The Goldbergs
Character:Alexander Abel
Release Date:23/12/1950
The Magnificent Yankee
Character:Louis Brandeis
Release Date:20/12/1950
The du Pont Story
Character:Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Release Date:15/12/1950
Emergency Wedding
Character:Dr. Heimer
Release Date:15/11/1950
The Vicious Years
Character:Emilio Rossi
Release Date:10/03/1950
Francis
Character:Colonel Plepper
Release Date:08/02/1950
Whirlpool
Character:Martin Avery
Release Date:13/01/1950
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Character:Gottfried Steiner
Release Date:11/11/1949
Madame Bovary
Character:Rouault
Release Date:25/08/1949
Outpost in Morocco
Character:Emir of Bel-Rashad
Release Date:02/05/1949
Wake of the Red Witch
Character:Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
Release Date:30/12/1948
Hollow Triumph
Character:Frederick Muller
Release Date:18/08/1948
The Iron Curtain
Character:Maj. Semyon Kulin
Release Date:16/06/1948
Television Appearances
Hart to Hart
Character:
Vega$
Character:
The Bionic Woman
Character:
Adam's Rib
Character:Whittaker
ABC Afterschool Special
Character:Grandpa
Assignment: Vienna
Character:Professor Hayes
The Streets of San Francisco
Character:
The Waltons
Character:
The Rookies
Character:
Medical Center
Character:
Hawaii Five-O
Character:Thomas Barlow
Hawaii Five-O
Character:Professor MacKinnon
Mannix
Character:
The Invaders
Character:Premier Thor Halvorsen
The F.B.I.
Character:Dr. Keeler
The F.B.I.
Character:Rudolph Klahr
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character:
The Fugitive
Character:Edward Roland
Breaking Point
Character:
Stoney Burke
Character:
The Virginian
Character:Two Hawks
Ben Casey
Character:
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Character:Mr. Balzar
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character:Dr. Paul Aldrich
Startime
Character:
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character:Jules Silberg
Rawhide
Character:Mayor Arnold Opel
Cimarron City
Character:
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character:Isaac Rankin
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Character:Bayard Cole
Zorro
Character:
DuPont Show of the Month
Character:Dunn
Have Gun, Will Travel
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Panic!
Character:
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Character:
Gunsmoke
Character:Amos Cartwright
Gunsmoke
Character:Judge John Kendall
Climax!
Character:Dr. James Lifford
Climax!
Character:Dr. Skinner
Letter to Loretta
Character:Rev. Travers
General Electric Theater
Character:David
General Electric Theater
Character:R.S. Thomasek
Cavalcade of America
Character:Samuel Morse
Cavalcade of America
Character:
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Justice Brandeis
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:Prof. Randall
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:John Castleberry
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Emil
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Father Pierre
Treasury Men in Action
Character:Ed Emery
Ford Theatre
Character:
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