1902-10-31 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
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Twilight Zone: The Movie | Old Man | 1983-06-24 |
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Panic on the 5:22 | Jerome Hartford | 1974-11-20 |
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Johnny Got His Gun | Col. / Gen. Tillery | 1971-08-04 |
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The Brotherhood of the Bell | Dr. Konstantin Horvathy | 1970-09-17 |
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The President's Analyst | Ethan Allen Cocket | 1967-12-21 |
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Cyborg 2087 | Prof. Sigmund Marx | 1966-10-01 |
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Hatari! | Doctor Sanderson | 1962-06-19 |
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Beauty and the Beast | Orsini | 1962-03-01 |
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Francis of Assisi | Pietro Bernardone | 1961-07-12 |
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The Fiercest Heart | Hugo Baumon | 1961-04-30 |
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The Story of Ruth | Jehoam | 1960-06-17 |
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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake | Jonathan Drake | 1959-11-13 |
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Day of the Badman | Andrew Owens | 1958-01-29 |
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A Certain Smile | Monsieur Vallon | 1958-07-31 |
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The Last of the Fast Guns | Padre Jose | 1958-07-01 |
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Not One Shall Die | Mr. Selig | 1957-01-01 |
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Man Afraid | Carl Simmons | 1957-04-04 |
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Collector’s Item | Mr. Peasley | 1957-12-01 |
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The Burning Hills | Jacob Lantz | 1956-09-01 |
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Three for Jamie Dawn | Anton Karek | 1956-07-08 |
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The Ten Commandments | Jethro | 1956-10-05 |
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Lady Godiva of Coventry | King Edward | 1955-11-02 |
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The Last Command | Lorenzo de Quesada | 1955-08-03 |
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Man on the Ledge | Dr. Benson | 1955-12-28 |
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White Feather | Chief Broken Hand | 1955-02-16 |
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The Indian Fighter | Red Cloud | 1955-12-21 |
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The Big Moment | Dr. Berg | 1954-03-07 |
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Beachhead | Bouchard, French Planter | 1954-02-05 |
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Living It Up | Dr. Nassau (uncredited) | 1954-07-15 |
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Sign of the Pagan | Astrologer | 1954-11-24 |
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Broken Lance | Two Moons | 1954-09-25 |
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Sins of Jezebel | Ahab | 1953-09-04 |
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Dream Wife | Khan | 1953-06-19 |
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The Jazz Singer | David Golding | 1953-02-14 |
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Latin Lovers | Dr. Lionel Y. Newman | 1953-08-12 |
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Three Lives | Rabbi | 1953-09-17 |
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Because You're Mine | Albert Parkson Foster | 1952-10-01 |
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One Minute to Zero | Dr. Gustav Engstrand | 1952-09-19 |
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Everything I Have Is Yours | Phil Meisner | 1952-10-31 |
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Shadow in the Sky | The Doctor | 1952-07-18 |
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The Unknown Man | Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford | 1951-11-09 |
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg | 1951-10-16 |
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The Thing from Another World | Dr. Stern | 1951-04-05 |
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The Great Caruso | Giulio Gatti-Casazza | 1951-04-16 |
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The Goldbergs | Alexander Abel | 1950-12-23 |
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Francis | Colonel Plepper | 1950-02-08 |
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Emergency Wedding | Dr. Heimer | 1950-11-15 |
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The Magnificent Yankee | Louis Brandeis | 1950-12-20 |
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The Vicious Years | Emilio Rossi | 1950-03-10 |
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Whirlpool | Martin Avery | 1950-01-13 |
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The Du Pont Story | Eleuthère Irénée du Pont | 1950-12-15 |
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Oh, You Beautiful Doll | Gottfried Steiner | 1949-11-11 |
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Madame Bovary | Rouault | 1949-08-25 |
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Outpost in Morocco | Emir of Bel-Rashad | 1949-05-02 |
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Wake of the Red Witch | Harmenszoon Van Schreeven | 1948-12-30 |
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Hollow Triumph | Frederick Muller | 1948-08-18 |
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The Iron Curtain | Maj. Semyon Kulin | 1948-06-16 |
