Acting
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
The Fugitive
1963 · TV
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · TV
The Waltons
1972 · TV
The Virginian
1962 · TV
Mannix
1967 · TV
Rawhide
1959 · TV
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV
Gunsmoke
1955 · TV
Climax!
1954 · TV
Hart to Hart
1979 · TV
The Rookies
1972 · TV
Zorro
1957 · TV
Medical Center
1969 · TV
The F.B.I.
1965 · TV
Ben Casey
1961 · TV
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · TV
The Invaders
1967 · TV
The Bionic Woman
1976 · TV
The Ten Commandments
1956 · Movie
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · TV
Vega$
1978 · TV
Stoney Burke
1962 · TV
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · TV
Startime
1959 · TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · TV
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · TV
Cavalcade of America
1952 · TV
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · TV
Panic!
1957 · TV
Breaking Point
1963 · TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie
Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV
Adam's Rib
1973 · TV
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · TV
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV
Treasury Men in Action
1950 · TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · TV
Cimarron City
1958 · TV
Hatari!
1962 · Movie
Assignment: Vienna
1972 · TV
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Movie
Broken Lance
1954 · Movie
The Story of Ruth
1960 · Movie
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Movie
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Movie
The Indian Fighter
1955 · Movie
Madame Bovary
1949 · Movie
Living It Up
1954 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast
1962 · Movie
The Burning Hills
1956 · Movie
Whirlpool
1950 · Movie
Wake of the Red Witch
1948 · Movie
Sign of the Pagan
1954 · Movie
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955 · Movie
Dream Wife
1953 · Movie
Francis
1950 · Movie
The President's Analyst
1967 · Movie
The Last Command
1955 · Movie
The Great Caruso
1951 · Movie
Cyborg 2087
1966 · Movie
Hollow Triumph
1948 · Movie
The Unknown Man
1951 · Movie
One Minute to Zero
1952 · Movie
Latin Lovers
1953 · Movie
Man Afraid
1957 · Movie
Everything I Have Is Yours
1952 · Movie
Sins of Jezebel
1953 · Movie
Beachhead
1954 · Movie
Outpost in Morocco
1949 · Movie
Man on the Ledge
1955 · Movie
Shadow in the Sky
1952 · Movie
Francis of Assisi
1961 · Movie
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970 · Movie
The Iron Curtain
1948 · Movie
White Feather
1955 · Movie
Panic on the 5:22
1974 · Movie
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958 · Movie
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956 · Movie
A Certain Smile
1958 · Movie
The Jazz Singer
1953 · Movie
Collector’s Item
1957 · Movie
The Big Moment
1954 · Movie
Emergency Wedding
1950 · Movie
Day of the Badman
1958 · Movie
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959 · Movie
Not One Shall Die
1957 · Movie
The Goldbergs
1950 · Movie
The Magnificent Yankee
1950 · Movie
Because You're Mine
1952 · Movie
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1949 · Movie
The Vicious Years
1950 · Movie
The Jazz Singer
1959 · Movie
