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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Beauty and the Beast | Orsini | 1962-03-01 |
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Hatari! | Doctor Sanderson | 1962-06-19 |
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The Fiercest Heart | Hugo Baumon | 1961-04-30 |
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Francis of Assisi | Pietro Bernardone | 1961-07-12 |
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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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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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Day of the Badman | Andrew Owens | 1958-01-29 |
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Collector’s Item | Mr. Peasley | 1957-12-01 |
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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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Three for Jamie Dawn | Anton Karek | 1956-07-08 |
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The Burning Hills | Jacob Lantz | 1956-09-01 |
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The Ten Commandments | Jethro | 1956-10-05 |
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The Last Command | Lorenzo de Quesada | 1955-08-03 |
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The Indian Fighter | Red Cloud | 1955-12-21 |
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Lady Godiva of Coventry | King Edward | 1955-11-02 |
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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 Big Moment | Dr. Berg | 1954-03-07 |
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Living It Up | Dr. Nassau (uncredited) | 1954-07-15 |
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Broken Lance | Two Moons | 1954-09-25 |
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Sign of the Pagan | Astrologer | 1954-11-24 |
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Beachhead | Bouchard, French Planter | 1954-02-05 |
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Sins of Jezebel | Ahab | 1953-09-04 |
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Three Lives | Rabbi | 1953-09-17 |
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Dream Wife | Khan | 1953-06-19 |
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Latin Lovers | Dr. Lionel Y. Newman | 1953-08-12 |
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The Jazz Singer | David Golding | 1953-02-14 |
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Because You're Mine | Albert Parkson Foster | 1952-10-01 |
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Shadow in the Sky | The Doctor | 1952-07-18 |
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Everything I Have Is Yours | Phil Meisner | 1952-10-31 |
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One Minute to Zero | Dr. Gustav Engstrand | 1952-09-19 |
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg | 1951-10-16 |
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The Unknown Man | Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford | 1951-11-09 |
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The Great Caruso | Giulio Gatti-Casazza | 1951-04-16 |
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The Thing from Another World | Dr. Stern | 1951-04-05 |
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Whirlpool | Martin Avery | 1950-01-13 |
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The Vicious Years | Emilio Rossi | 1950-03-10 |
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The Du Pont Story | Eleuthère Irénée du Pont | 1950-12-15 |
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The Magnificent Yankee | Louis Brandeis | 1950-12-20 |
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The Goldbergs | Alexander Abel | 1950-12-23 |
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Emergency Wedding | Dr. Heimer | 1950-11-15 |
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Francis | Colonel Plepper | 1950-02-08 |
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Outpost in Morocco | Emir of Bel-Rashad | 1949-05-02 |
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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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Hollow Triumph | Frederick Muller | 1948-08-18 |
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Wake of the Red Witch | Harmenszoon Van Schreeven | 1948-12-30 |
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The Iron Curtain | Maj. Semyon Kulin | 1948-06-16 |
