Acting · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA · Born October 31, 1902
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
MovieTwilight Zone: The Movie
1983
as Old Man
TVHart to Hart
1979
TVVega$
1978
TVThe Bionic Woman
1976
MoviePanic on the 5:22
1974
as Jerome Hartford
TVAdam's Rib
1973
as Whittaker
TVABC Afterschool Special
1972
as Grandpa
TVAssignment: Vienna
1972
as Professor Hayes
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
TVThe Waltons
1972
TVThe Rookies
1972
MovieJohnny Got His Gun
1971
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
MovieThe Brotherhood of the Bell
1970
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
TVMedical Center
1969
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Thomas Barlow
MovieThe President's Analyst
1967
as Ethan Allen Cocket
TVMannix
1967
TVThe Invaders
1967
as Premier Thor Halvorsen
MovieCyborg 2087
1966
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Dr. Keeler
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TVThe Fugitive
1963
as Edward Roland
TVBreaking Point
1963
TVStoney Burke
1962
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Two Hawks
MovieHatari!
1962
as Doctor Sanderson
MovieBeauty and the Beast
1962
as Orsini
TVBen Casey
1961
MovieFrancis of Assisi
1961
as Pietro Bernardone
The Fiercest Heart
1961
as Hugo Baumon
TVThe Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960
as Mr. Balzar
TVThe Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Dr. Paul Aldrich
MovieThe Story of Ruth
1960
as Jehoam
MovieThe Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959
as Jonathan Drake
MovieThe Jazz Singer
1959
as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
TVStartime
1959
as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
TVThe DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
as Jules Silberg
TVRawhide
1959
as Mayor Arnold Opel
TVCimarron City
1958
TVWanted: Dead or Alive
1958
as Isaac Rankin
MovieA Certain Smile
1958
as Monsieur Vallon
MovieThe Last of the Fast Guns
1958
as Padre Jose
MovieDay of the Badman
1958
as Andrew Owens
MovieCollector’s Item
1957
as Mr. Peasley
TVZorro
1957
TVDuPont Show of the Month
1957
as Dunn
TVHave Gun, Will Travel
1957
MovieMan Afraid
1957
as Carl Simmons
TVPanic!
1957
MovieNot One Shall Die
1957
as Mr. Selig
MovieThe Ten Commandments
1956
as Jethro
MovieThe Burning Hills
1956
as Jacob Lantz
MovieThree for Jamie Dawn
1956
as Anton Karek
MovieMan on the Ledge
1955
as Dr. Benson
MovieThe Indian Fighter
1955
as Red Cloud
MovieLady Godiva of Coventry
1955
as King Edward
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Amos Cartwright
MovieThe Last Command
1955
as Lorenzo de Quesada
MovieWhite Feather
1955
as Chief Broken Hand
MovieSign of the Pagan
1954
as Astrologer
TVClimax!
1954
as Dr. James Lifford
MovieBroken Lance
1954
as Two Moons
MovieLiving It Up
1954
as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
MovieThe Big Moment
1954
as Dr. Berg
MovieBeachhead
1954
as Bouchard, French Planter
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
as Rev. Travers
Three Lives
1953
as Rabbi
MovieSins of Jezebel
1953
as Ahab
MovieLatin Lovers
1953
as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
MovieDream Wife
1953
as Khan
MovieThe Jazz Singer
1953
as David Golding
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as David
MovieEverything I Have Is Yours
1952
as Phil Meisner
MovieBecause You're Mine
1952
as Albert Parkson Foster
TVCavalcade of America
1952
as Samuel Morse
MovieOne Minute to Zero
1952
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
MovieShadow in the Sky
1952
as The Doctor
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Justice Brandeis
MovieThe Unknown Man
1951
as Andrew Jason Layford
MovieThe Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
MovieThe Great Caruso
1951
as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
MovieThe Thing from Another World
1951
as Dr. Stern
MovieThe Goldbergs
1950
as Alexander Abel
MovieThe Magnificent Yankee
1950
as Louis Brandeis
The du Pont Story
1950
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
MovieEmergency Wedding
1950
as Dr. Heimer
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Emil
TVTreasury Men in Action
1950
as Ed Emery
MovieThe Vicious Years
1950
as Emilio Rossi
MovieFrancis
1950
as Colonel Plepper
MovieWhirlpool
1950
as Martin Avery
MovieOh, You Beautiful Doll
1949
as Gottfried Steiner
MovieMadame Bovary
1949
as Rouault
MovieOutpost in Morocco
1949
as Emir of Bel-Rashad
MovieWake of the Red Witch
1948
as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
Ford Theatre
1948
MovieHollow Triumph
1948
as Frederick Muller
MovieThe Iron Curtain
1948
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
