Eduard Franz
Known for: Acting
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
Filmography
Series
Mannix
1967
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Thomas Barlow
1968
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Professor MacKinnon
1968
Series
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Series
The Waltons
1972
Series
Hart to Hart
1979
Series
The Fugitive
Edward Roland
1963
Series
The Virginian
Two Hawks
1962
Series
Climax!
Dr. James Lifford
1954
Series
Climax!
Dr. Skinner
1954
Series
Rawhide
Mayor Arnold Opel
1959
Series
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Series
Gunsmoke
Amos Cartwright
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Judge John Kendall
1955
Series
The F.B.I.
Dr. Keeler
1965
Series
The F.B.I.
Rudolph Klahr
1965
Series
Ben Casey
1961
Series
ABC Afterschool Special
Grandpa
1972
Series
Zorro
1957
Series
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Isaac Rankin
1958
Series
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Bayard Cole
1958
Series
Medical Center
1969
Series
The Bionic Woman
1976
Series
The Invaders
Premier Thor Halvorsen
1967
Series
The Rookies
1972
Series
Vega$
1978
Film
The Ten Commandments
Jethro
1956
Series
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Series
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Jules Silberg
1959
Series
Cavalcade of America
Samuel Morse
1952
Series
Cavalcade of America
1952
Series
Startime
Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
1959
Series
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Dr. Paul Aldrich
1960
Series
Stoney Burke
1962
Lux Video Theatre
Emil
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Father Pierre
1950
Series
Treasury Men in Action
Ed Emery
1950
Film
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Old Man
1983
Series
DuPont Show of the Month
Dunn
1957
Ford Theatre
1948
Series
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Mr. Balzar
1960
Series
Panic!
1957
Series
Breaking Point
1963
Series
Letter to Loretta
Rev. Travers
1953
Film
Hatari!
Doctor Sanderson
1962
Series
Adam's Rib
Whittaker
1973
Film
Johnny Got His Gun
Col. / Gen. Tillery
1971
Series
Cimarron City
1958
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Prof. Randall
1951
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
John Castleberry
1951
Film
The Thing from Another World
Dr. Stern
1951
Film
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
1951
Series
General Electric Theater
David
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
R.S. Thomasek
1953
Film
Wake of the Red Witch
Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
1948
Film
The Story of Ruth
Jehoam
1960
Film
Madame Bovary
Rouault
1949
Film
The Indian Fighter
Red Cloud
1955
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Justice Brandeis
1951
Film
Lady Godiva of Coventry
King Edward
1955
Film
The Burning Hills
Jacob Lantz
1956
Film
The President's Analyst
Ethan Allen Cocket
1967
Film
Dream Wife
Khan
1953
Film
The Last Command
Lorenzo de Quesada
1955
Series
Assignment: Vienna
Professor Hayes
1972
Film
Francis
Colonel Plepper
1950
Film
Whirlpool
Martin Avery
1950
Film
Living It Up
Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
1954
Film
Hollow Triumph
Frederick Muller
1948
Film
Sign of the Pagan
Astrologer
1954
Film
Broken Lance
Two Moons
1954
Film
White Feather
Chief Broken Hand
1955
Film
One Minute to Zero
Dr. Gustav Engstrand
1952
Film
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Gottfried Steiner
1949
Film
Francis of Assisi
Pietro Bernardone
1961
Film
The Great Caruso
Giulio Gatti-Casazza
1951
Film
Emergency Wedding
Dr. Heimer
1950
Film
Beauty and the Beast
Orsini
1962
Film
The Iron Curtain
Maj. Semyon Kulin
1948
Film
The Last of the Fast Guns
Padre Jose
1958
Film
Beachhead
Bouchard, French Planter
1954
Film
Day of the Badman
Andrew Owens
1958
Film
The Unknown Man
Andrew Jason Layford
1951
Film
A Certain Smile
Monsieur Vallon
1958
Film
Latin Lovers
Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
1953
Film
Shadow in the Sky
The Doctor
1952
Film
Outpost in Morocco
Emir of Bel-Rashad
1949
Film
Cyborg 2087
Prof. Sigmund Marx
1966
Three Lives
Rabbi
1953
Film
The Jazz Singer
Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
1959
Film
Man Afraid
Carl Simmons
1957
Film
Because You're Mine
Albert Parkson Foster
1952
Film
The Magnificent Yankee
Louis Brandeis
1950
Film
Panic on the 5:22
Jerome Hartford
1974
Film
The Vicious Years
Emilio Rossi
1950
Film
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
1970
Film
The Jazz Singer
David Golding
1953
Film
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Jonathan Drake
1959
Film
Man on the Ledge
Dr. Benson
1955
Film
Sins of Jezebel
Ahab
1953
Film
Not One Shall Die
Mr. Selig
1957
The Fiercest Heart
Hugo Baumon
1961
Film
Three for Jamie Dawn
Anton Karek
1956
Film
Everything I Have Is Yours
Phil Meisner
1952
Film
The Big Moment
Dr. Berg
1954
The du Pont Story
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
1950
Film
The Goldbergs
Alexander Abel
1950
Film
Collector’s Item
Mr. Peasley
1957