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person_profile-Eduard Franz

Eduard Franz Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Eduard Franz

Date of Birth:

Oct 31, 1902

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 10, 1983

Biography of

Eduard Franz

    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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Filmography of

Eduard Franz

Found 53 Movies in total

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Old Man (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") ( Actor )

... 1983

... 1975

Panic on the 5:22

Jerome Hartford ( Actor )

... 1974

Johnny Got His Gun

Col. / Gen. Tillery ( Actor )

... 1971

The Brotherhood of the Bell

Dr. Konstantin Horvathy ( Actor )

... 1970

The President's Analyst

Ethan Allen Cocket ( Actor )

... 1967

Cyborg 2087

Prof. Sigmund Marx ( Actor )

... 1966

Hatari!

Doctor Sanderson ( Actor )

... 1962

Beauty and the Beast

Orsini ( Actor )

... 1962

Francis of Assisi

Pietro Bernardone ( Actor )

... 1961

The Story of Ruth

Jehoam ( Actor )

... 1960

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Jonathan Drake ( Actor )

... 1959

A Certain Smile

Monsieur Vallon ( Actor )

... 1958

The Last of the Fast Guns

Padre Jose ( Actor )

... 1958

Day of the Badman

Andrew Owens ( Actor )

... 1958

Man Afraid

Carl Simmons ( Actor )

... 1957

The Ten Commandments

Jethro ( Actor )

... 1956

The Burning Hills

Jacob Lantz ( Actor )

... 1956

Three for Jamie Dawn

Anton Karek ( Actor )

... 1956

Man on the Ledge

Dr. Benson ( Actor )

... 1955

The Indian Fighter

Red Cloud ( Actor )

... 1955

Lady Godiva of Coventry

King Edward ( Actor )

... 1955

The Last Command

Lorenzo de Quesada ( Actor )

... 1955

White Feather

Chief Broken Hand ( Actor )

... 1955

Sign of the Pagan

Astrologer ( Actor )

... 1954

Broken Lance

Two Moons ( Actor )

... 1954

Living It Up

Dr. Nassau (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

Beachhead

Bouchard, French Planter ( Actor )

... 1954

Sins of Jezebel

Ahab ( Actor )

... 1953

Latin Lovers

Dr. Lionel Y. Newman ( Actor )

... 1953

Dream Wife

Khan ( Actor )

... 1953

The Jazz Singer

David Golding ( Actor )

... 1953

Everything I Have Is Yours

Phil Meisner ( Actor )

... 1952

Because You're Mine

Albert Parkson Foster ( Actor )

... 1952

One Minute to Zero

Dr. Gustav Engstrand ( Actor )

... 1952

Shadow in the Sky

The Doctor ( Actor )

... 1952

The Unknown Man

Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford ( Actor )

... 1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg ( Actor )

... 1951

The Great Caruso

Giulio Gatti-Casazza ( Actor )

... 1951

The Thing from Another World

Dr. Stern ( Actor )

... 1951

The Goldbergs

Alexander Abel ( Actor )

... 1950

The Magnificent Yankee

Louis Brandeis ( Actor )

... 1950

Emergency Wedding

Dr. Heimer ( Actor )

... 1950

The Vicious Years

Emilio Rossi ( Actor )

... 1950

Francis

Colonel Plepper ( Actor )

... 1950

Whirlpool

Martin Avery ( Actor )

... 1950

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Gottfried Steiner ( Actor )

... 1949

Madame Bovary

Rouault ( Actor )

... 1949

Outpost in Morocco

Emir of Bel-Rashad ( Actor )

... 1949

Wake of the Red Witch

Harmenszoon Van Schreeven ( Actor )

... 1948

Hollow Triumph

Frederick Muller ( Actor )

... 1948

The Iron Curtain

Maj. Semyon Kulin ( Actor )

... 1948