Eduard Franz

Known for ActingBorn 1902-10-31Died 1983-02-10Milwaukee, 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 PointRead more

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Collector’s Item

The du Pont Story

Assignment: Vienna

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Panic!

The Goldbergs

Ford Theatre

The Ten Commandments

Francis of Assisi

Adam's Rib

Johnny Got His Gun

Zorro

Three Lives

Breaking Point

The Story of Ruth

DuPont Show of the Month

The Fugitive

The Waltons

Have Gun, Will Travel

Hawaii Five-O

Rawhide

The Bionic Woman

The Streets of San Francisco

Vega$

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Hart to Hart

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Rookies

The Invaders

Man on the Ledge

Shadow in the Sky

Day of the Badman

Mannix

Hatari!

White Feather

Stoney Burke

General Electric Theater

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Startime

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Because You're Mine

The Last Command

Gunsmoke

Madame Bovary

Panic on the 5:22

The Thing from Another World

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

ABC Afterschool Special