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Eduard Franz

Eduard Franz

Birthday: 1902-10-31 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1967
The President's Analyst

as    Ethan Allen Cocket

1962
Hatari!

as    Doctor Sanderson

1961
The Fiercest Heart

as    Hugo Baumon

1961
Francis of Assisi

as    Pietro Bernardone

1960
The Story of Ruth

as    Jehoam

1959
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

as    Jonathan Drake

1958
The Last of the Fast Guns

as    Padre Jose

1956
The Burning Hills

as    Jacob Lantz

1955
White Feather

as    Chief Broken Hand

1955
Lady Godiva of Coventry

as    King Edward

1955
The Indian Fighter

as    Red Cloud

1954
Broken Lance

as    Two Moons

1953
The Jazz Singer

as    David Golding

1953
Latin Lovers

as    Dr. Lionel Y. Newman

1953
Dream Wife

as    Khan

1952
Because You're Mine

as    Albert Parkson Foster

1952
One Minute to Zero

as    Dr. Gustav Engstrand

1951
The Unknown Man

as    Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford

1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

as    Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg

1951
The Thing from Another World

as    Dr. Stern

1951
The Great Caruso

as    Giulio Gatti-Casazza

1950
Francis

as    Colonel Plepper

1950
The Vicious Years

as    Emilio Rossi

1950
Whirlpool

as    Martin Avery

1949
Outpost in Morocco

as    Emir of Bel-Rashad

1948
Hollow Triumph

as    Frederick Muller

1948
Wake of the Red Witch

as    Harmenszoon Van Schreeven

1948
The Iron Curtain

as    Maj. Semyon Kulin