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