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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
Filmography
all 99
Movies 57
TV Shows 42
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Hart to Hart (1979)
Vega$ (1978)
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Panic on the 5:22 (1974)
Adam's Rib (1973)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
Assignment: Vienna (1972)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
The Waltons (1972)
The Rookies (1972)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)
Medical Center (1969)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
The President's Analyst (1967)
Mannix (1967)
The Invaders (1967)
Cyborg 2087 (1966)
The F.B.I. (1965)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
Breaking Point (1963)
Stoney Burke (1962)
The Virginian (1962)
Hatari! (1962)
Beauty and the Beast (1962)
Ben Casey (1961)
Francis of Assisi (1961)
The Fiercest Heart (1961)
The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960)
The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
The Story of Ruth (1960)
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Startime (1959)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)
Rawhide (1959)
Cimarron City (1958)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
A Certain Smile (1958)
The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
Day of the Badman (1958)
Collector’s Item (1957)
Zorro (1957)
DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
Man Afraid (1957)
Panic! (1957)
Not One Shall Die (1957)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Burning Hills (1956)
Three for Jamie Dawn (1956)
Man on the Ledge (1955)
The Indian Fighter (1955)
Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)
The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955)
Gunsmoke (1955)
The Last Command (1955)
White Feather (1955)
Sign of the Pagan (1954)
Climax! (1954)
Broken Lance (1954)
Living It Up (1954)
The Big Moment (1954)
Beachhead (1954)
Letter to Loretta (1953)
Three Lives (1953)
Sins of Jezebel (1953)
Latin Lovers (1953)
Dream Wife (1953)
The Jazz Singer (1953)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
Cavalcade of America (1952)
Because You're Mine (1952)
One Minute to Zero (1952)
Shadow in the Sky (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Unknown Man (1951)
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
The Great Caruso (1951)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Goldbergs (1950)
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
The Du Pont Story (1950)
Emergency Wedding (1950)
Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Treasury Men in Action (1950)
The Vicious Years (1950)
Francis (1950)
Whirlpool (1950)
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Outpost in Morocco (1949)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Ford Theatre (1948)
Hollow Triumph (1948)
The Iron Curtain (1948)
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GenderMale
Birthday1902-10-31
Deathday1983-02-10 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceMilwaukee, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsEduard Franz Schmidt
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