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Eduard Franz
Actor
Died February 10, 1983 (80 years)
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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.
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
| 1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie · as Old Man (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1978 | Vega$ (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1976 | The Bionic Woman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1974 | The Sex Symbol · as Otto Litsky (foreign theatrical version) |
| 1972 | The Rookies (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | The Waltons (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun · as Col. / Gen. Tillery |
| 1968 | It Takes a Thief (TV Series) · as Mr. Johnson |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Thomas Barlow |
| 1967 | The Invaders (TV Series) · as Premier Thor Halvorsen |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | The President's Analyst · as Ethan Allen Cocket |
| 1966 | Cyborg 2087 · as Prof. Sigmund Marx |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Rudolph Klahr |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Edward Roland |
| 1963 | Breaking Point (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1962 | Hatari! · as Doctor Sanderson |
| 1962 | Beauty and the Beast · as Orsini |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Two Hawks |
| 1961 | The Fiercest Heart · as Hugo Baumon |
| 1960 | The Story of Ruth · as Jehoam |
| 1960 | The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV Series) · as Dr. Paul Aldrich |
| 1959 | The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake · as Jonathan Drake |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Mayor Arnold Opel |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Deputy (TV Series) · as Wilk - Guitar Player |
| 1958 | Day of the Badman · as Andrew Owens |
| 1958 | Cimarron City (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series) · as Bayard Cole |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun (TV Series) · as David Marcus |
| 1957 | Zorro (1957) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Dr. Rand |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments · as Jethro |
| 1956 | The Burning Hills · as Jacob Lantz |
| 1955 | The Last Command · as Lorenzo de Quesada |
| 1955 | The Indian Fighter · as Red Cloud |
| 1955 | Lady Godiva of Coventry · as King Edward |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Amos Cartwright |
| 1954 | Living It Up · as Dr. Nassau (uncredited) |
| 1954 | Broken Lance · as Two Moons |
| 1954 | Beachhead · as Bouchard, French Planter |
| 1954 | Sign of the Pagan · as Astrologer |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Dr. James Lifford |
| 1953 | Dream Wife · as Khan |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as David |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Rev. Travers |
| 1952 | Because You're Mine · as Albert Parkson Foster |
| 1952 | One Minute to Zero · as Dr. Gustav Engstrand |
| 1952 | The Jazz Singer · as David Golding |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Rabbi Eli Lipner |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Samuel Morse |
| 1951 | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel · as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg |
| 1951 | The Great Caruso · as Giulio Gatti-Casazza |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Justice Brandeis |
| 1951 | The Thing from Another World · as Dr. Stern |
| 1950 | Francis · as Colonel Plepper |
| 1950 | The Magnificent Yankee · as Judge Louis Brandeis |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Emil |
| 1950 | Treasury Men in Action (TV Series) · as Ed Emery |
| 1949 | Madame Bovary · as Rouault |
| 1949 | Outpost in Morocco · as Emir of Bel-Rashad |
| 1949 | Oh, You Beautiful Doll · as Gottfried Steiner |
| 1948 | Hollow Triumph · as Frederick Muller |
| 1948 | Wake of the Red Witch · as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven |