Eduard Franz
Age: 80 | From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1902-10-31 10:21:08
Death: 1983-02-10 10:21:08
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 50
TV Involvements: 24
Most Famous Work
Biography
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
Most Famous Work
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Father Pierre
Climax!
(1954) Dr. Skinner
The Fugitive
(1963) Edward Roland
Hawaii Five-O
(1968) Prof. David MacKinnon
Rawhide
(1959) Mayor Arnold Opel
The Invaders
(1967) Premier Thor Halvorsen
Cavalcade of America
(1952) Samuel Morse
The Virginian
(1962) Two HawksActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Old Man | |
| 1979 | N/A | |
| 1978 | N/A | |
| 1976 | N/A | |
| 1974 | Jerome Hartford | |
| 1973 | Whittaker | |
| 1972 | Grandpa | |
| Professor Hayes | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Col. / Gen. Tillery | |
| 1970 | Dr. Konstantin Horvathy | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| 1968 | Thomas Barlow | |
| Prof. David MacKinnon | ||
| 1967 | Ethan Allen Cocket | |
| N/A | ||
| Premier Thor Halvorsen | ||
| 1966 | Prof. Sigmund Marx | |
| 1965 | Dr. Keeler | |
| Rudolph Klahr | ||
| 1963 | N/A | |
| Edward Roland | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
| Two Hawks | ||
| Doctor Sanderson | ||
| Orsini | ||
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Pietro Bernardone | ||
| Hugo Baumon | ||
| 1960 | Dr. Paul Aldrich | |
| Jehoam | ||
| 1959 | Jonathan Drake | |
| N/A | ||
| Jules Silberg | ||
| Mayor Arnold Opel | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Isaac Rankin | ||
| Bayard Cole | ||
| Monsieur Vallon | ||
| Padre Jose | ||
| Andrew Owens | ||
| 1957 | Mr. Peasley | |
| N/A | ||
| Dunn | ||
| N/A | ||
| Carl Simmons | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mr. Selig | ||
| 1956 | Jethro | |
| Jacob Lantz | ||
| Anton Karek | ||
| 1955 | Dr. Benson | |
| Red Cloud | ||
| King Edward | ||
| N/A | ||
| Amos Cartwright | ||
| Judge John Kendall | ||
| Lorenzo de Quesada | ||
| Chief Broken Hand | ||
| 1954 | Astrologer | |
| Dr. James Lifford | ||
| Dr. Skinner | ||
| Two Moons | ||
| Dr. Nassau (uncredited) | ||
| Dr. Berg | ||
| Bouchard, French Planter | ||
| 1953 | Rev. Travers | |
| Rabbi | ||
| Ahab | ||
| Dr. Lionel Y. Newman | ||
| Khan | ||
| David Golding | ||
| David | ||
| R.S. Thomasek | ||
| 1952 | Phil Meisner | |
| Samuel Morse | ||
| N/A | ||
| Albert Parkson Foster | ||
| Dr. Gustav Engstrand | ||
| The Doctor | ||
| 1951 | Justice Brandeis | |
| Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford | ||
| Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg | ||
| N/A | ||
| Prof. Randall | ||
| John Castleberry | ||
| Giulio Gatti-Casazza | ||
| Dr. Stern | ||
| 1950 | Alexander Abel | |
| Louis Brandeis | ||
| Eleuthère Irénée du Pont | ||
| Dr. Heimer | ||
| Emil | ||
| Father Pierre | ||
| Ed Emery | ||
| Emilio Rossi | ||
| Colonel Plepper | ||
| Martin Avery | ||
| 1949 | Gottfried Steiner | |
| Rouault | ||
| Emir of Bel-Rashad | ||
| 1948 | Harmenszoon Van Schreeven | |
| N/A | ||
| Frederick Muller | ||
| Maj. Semyon Kulin | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
