Eduard Franz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 31, 1902
- Died
- February 10, 1983
- Birthplace
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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
Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983
as Old Man
Panic on the 5:22 1974
as Jerome Hartford
Johnny Got His Gun 1971
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
The Brotherhood of the Bell 1970
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
The President's Analyst 1967
as Ethan Allen Cocket
Cyborg 2087 1966
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
Hatari! 1962
as Doctor Sanderson
Beauty and the Beast 1962
as Orsini
Francis of Assisi 1961
as Pietro Bernardone
- The Fiercest Heart
The Fiercest Heart 1961
as Hugo Baumon
The Story of Ruth 1960
as Jehoam
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake 1959
as Jonathan Drake
The Jazz Singer 1959
as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
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
Man Afraid 1957
as Carl Simmons
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 Last Command 1955
as Lorenzo de Quesada
White Feather 1955
as Chief Broken Hand
Sign of the Pagan 1954
as Astrologer
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
- Three Lives
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
Everything I Have Is Yours 1952
as Phil Meisner
Because You're Mine 1952
as Albert Parkson Foster
One Minute to Zero 1952
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Shadow in the Sky 1952
as The Doctor
The Unknown Man 1951
as Andrew Jason Layford
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 1951
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
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
The du Pont Story 1950
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Emergency Wedding 1950
as Dr. Heimer
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
Hollow Triumph 1948
as Frederick Muller
The Iron Curtain 1948
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
Credits from TMDB.