Eduard Franz
58 movies · 41 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 31, 1902
- Died
- Feb 10, 1983 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Also known as
- Eduard Franz Schmidt · ادوارد فرانتس
Biography
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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.
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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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Known for
Eduard Franz: movies and TV shows
Acting (99)
- 1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Old Man
- 1979
- 1978
- 1976
- 1974 Panic on the 5:22
as Jerome Hartford
- 1973
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972
- 1971 Johnny Got His Gun
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
- 1970 The Brotherhood of the Bell
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
- 1969
- 1969
- 1967 The President's Analyst
as Ethan Allen Cocket
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966 Cyborg 2087
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
- 1965
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 Hatari!
as Doctor Sanderson
- 1962 Beauty and the Beast
as Orsini
- 1961
- 1961 Francis of Assisi
as Pietro Bernardone
- 1961 The Fiercest Heart
as Hugo Baumon
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 The Story of Ruth
as Jehoam
- 1959 The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
as Jonathan Drake
- 1959 The Jazz Singer
as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 A Certain Smile
as Monsieur Vallon
- 1958 The Last of the Fast Guns
as Padre Jose
- 1958 Day of the Badman
as Andrew Owens
- 1957 Collector’s Item
as Mr. Peasley
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Man Afraid
as Carl Simmons
- 1957
- 1957 Not One Shall Die
as Mr. Selig
- 1956 The Ten Commandments
as Jethro
- 1956 The Burning Hills
as Jacob Lantz
- 1956 Three for Jamie Dawn
as Anton Karek
- 1955 Man on the Ledge
as Dr. Benson
- 1955 The Indian Fighter
as Red Cloud
- 1955 Lady Godiva of Coventry
as King Edward
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 The Last Command
as Lorenzo de Quesada
- 1955 White Feather
as Chief Broken Hand
- 1954 Sign of the Pagan
as Astrologer
- 1954
- 1954 Broken Lance
as Two Moons
- 1954 Living It Up
as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
- 1954 The Big Moment
as Dr. Berg
- 1954 Beachhead
as Bouchard, French Planter
- 1953
- 1953 Three Lives
as Rabbi
- 1953 Sins of Jezebel
as Ahab
- 1953 Latin Lovers
as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
- 1953 Dream Wife
as Khan
- 1953 The Jazz Singer
as David Golding
- 1953
- 1952 Everything I Have Is Yours
as Phil Meisner
- 1952 Because You're Mine
as Albert Parkson Foster
- 1952
- 1952 One Minute to Zero
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
- 1952 Shadow in the Sky
as The Doctor
- 1951
- 1951 The Unknown Man
as Andrew Jason Layford
- 1951 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
- 1951
- 1951 The Great Caruso
as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
- 1951 The Thing from Another World
as Dr. Stern
- 1950 The Goldbergs
as Alexander Abel
- 1950 The Magnificent Yankee
as Louis Brandeis
- 1950 The du Pont Story
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
- 1950 Emergency Wedding
as Dr. Heimer
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950 The Vicious Years
as Emilio Rossi
- 1950 Francis
as Colonel Plepper
- 1950 Whirlpool
as Martin Avery
- 1949 Oh, You Beautiful Doll
as Gottfried Steiner
- 1949 Madame Bovary
as Rouault
- 1949 Outpost in Morocco
as Emir of Bel-Rashad
- 1948 Wake of the Red Witch
as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
- 1948
- 1948 Hollow Triumph
as Frederick Muller
- 1948 The Iron Curtain
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode