Eduard Franz
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
Photos
Films (58)
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Old Man
Panic on the 5:22
1974 · Jerome Hartford
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Col. / Gen. Tillery
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970 · Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
The President's Analyst
1967 · Ethan Allen Cocket
Cyborg 2087
1966 · Prof. Sigmund Marx
Hatari!
1962 · Doctor Sanderson
Beauty and the Beast
1962 · Orsini
Francis of Assisi
1961 · Pietro Bernardone
The Fiercest Heart
1961 · Hugo Baumon
The Story of Ruth
1960 · Jehoam
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959 · Jonathan Drake
The Jazz Singer
1959 · Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
A Certain Smile
1958 · Monsieur Vallon
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958 · Padre Jose
Day of the Badman
1958 · Andrew Owens
Collector’s Item
1957 · Mr. Peasley
Man Afraid
1957 · Carl Simmons
Not One Shall Die
1957 · Mr. Selig
The Ten Commandments
1956 · Jethro
The Burning Hills
1956 · Jacob Lantz
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956 · Anton Karek
Man on the Ledge
1955 · Dr. Benson
The Indian Fighter
1955 · Red Cloud
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955 · King Edward
The Last Command
1955 · Lorenzo de Quesada
White Feather
1955 · Chief Broken Hand
Sign of the Pagan
1954 · Astrologer
Broken Lance
1954 · Two Moons
Living It Up
1954 · Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
The Big Moment
1954 · Dr. Berg
Beachhead
1954 · Bouchard, French Planter
Three Lives
1953 · Rabbi
Sins of Jezebel
1953 · Ahab
Latin Lovers
1953 · Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
Dream Wife
1953 · Khan
The Jazz Singer
1953 · David Golding
Everything I Have Is Yours
1952 · Phil Meisner
Because You're Mine
1952 · Albert Parkson Foster
One Minute to Zero
1952 · Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Shadow in the Sky
1952 · The Doctor
The Unknown Man
1951 · Andrew Jason Layford
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
The Great Caruso
1951 · Giulio Gatti-Casazza
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Dr. Stern
The Goldbergs
1950 · Alexander Abel
The Magnificent Yankee
1950 · Louis Brandeis
The du Pont Story
1950 · Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Emergency Wedding
1950 · Dr. Heimer
The Vicious Years
1950 · Emilio Rossi
Francis
1950 · Colonel Plepper
Whirlpool
1950 · Martin Avery
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1949 · Gottfried Steiner
Madame Bovary
1949 · Rouault
Outpost in Morocco
1949 · Emir of Bel-Rashad
Wake of the Red Witch
1948 · Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
Hollow Triumph
1948 · Frederick Muller
The Iron Curtain
1948 · Maj. Semyon Kulin
Séries (42)
Hart to Hart
1979
Vega$
1978
The Bionic Woman
1976
Adam's Rib
1973 · Whittaker
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · Grandpa
Assignment: Vienna
1972 · Professor Hayes
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Waltons
1972
The Rookies
1972
Medical Center
1969
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Thomas Barlow, Professor MacKinnon
Mannix
1967
The Invaders
1967 · Premier Thor Halvorsen
The F.B.I.
1965 · Dr. Keeler, Rudolph Klahr
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Fugitive
1963 · Edward Roland
Breaking Point
1963
Stoney Burke
1962
The Virginian
1962 · Two Hawks
Ben Casey
1961
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · Mr. Balzar
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · Dr. Paul Aldrich
Startime
1959 · Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · Jules Silberg
Rawhide
1959 · Mayor Arnold Opel
Cimarron City
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Isaac Rankin, Bayard Cole
Zorro
1957
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · Dunn
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Panic!
1957
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Amos Cartwright, Judge John Kendall
Climax!
1954 · Dr. James Lifford, Dr. Skinner
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Rev. Travers
General Electric Theater
1953 · David, R.S. Thomasek
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Samuel Morse
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Justice Brandeis
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Prof. Randall, John Castleberry
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Emil, Father Pierre
Treasury Men in Action
1950 · Ed Emery
Ford Theatre
1948