Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Movie
as Old Man
Eduard Franz
1902-10-31
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Milwaukee, 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 Point
Filmography
Hart to Hart
1979 · TV Show
Vega$
1978 · TV Show
The Bionic Woman
1976 · TV Show
Panic on the 5:22
1974 · Movie
as Jerome Hartford
Adam's Rib
1973 · TV Show
as Whittaker
The Rookies
1972 · TV Show
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · TV Show
The Waltons
1972 · TV Show
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · TV Show
as Grandpa
Assignment: Vienna
1972 · TV Show
as Professor Hayes
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Movie
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970 · Movie
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
Medical Center
1969 · TV Show
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · TV Show
as Thomas Barlow, Professor MacKinnon
The President's Analyst
1967 · Movie
as Ethan Allen Cocket
Mannix
1967 · TV Show
The Invaders
1967 · TV Show
as Premier Thor Halvorsen
Cyborg 2087
1966 · Movie
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
The F.B.I.
1965 · TV Show
as Dr. Keeler, Rudolph Klahr
The Fugitive
1963 · TV Show
as Edward Roland
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · TV Show
Breaking Point
1963 · TV Show
Hatari!
1962 · Movie
as Doctor Sanderson
Beauty and the Beast
1962 · Movie
as Orsini
The Virginian
1962 · TV Show
as Two Hawks
Stoney Burke
1962 · TV Show
Francis of Assisi
1961 · Movie
as Pietro Bernardone
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The Fiercest Heart
1961 · Movie
as Hugo Baumon
Ben Casey
1961 · TV Show
The Story of Ruth
1960 · Movie
as Jehoam
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960 · TV Show
as Dr. Paul Aldrich
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · TV Show
as Mr. Balzar
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959 · Movie
as Jonathan Drake
The Jazz Singer
1959 · Movie
as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
Rawhide
1959 · TV Show
as Mayor Arnold Opel
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959 · TV Show
as Jules Silberg
Startime
1959 · TV Show
as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958 · Movie
as Padre Jose
Day of the Badman
1958 · Movie
as Andrew Owens
A Certain Smile
1958 · Movie
as Monsieur Vallon
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · TV Show
as Isaac Rankin, Bayard Cole
Cimarron City
1958 · TV Show
Collector’s Item
1957 · Movie
as Mr. Peasley
Man Afraid
1957 · Movie
as Carl Simmons
Not One Shall Die
1957 · Movie
as Mr. Selig
Zorro
1957 · TV Show
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · TV Show
Panic!
1957 · TV Show
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · TV Show
as Dunn
The Ten Commandments
1956 · Movie
as Jethro
The Burning Hills
1956 · Movie
as Jacob Lantz
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956 · Movie
as Anton Karek
Man on the Ledge
1955 · Movie
as Dr. Benson
The Indian Fighter
1955 · Movie
as Red Cloud
White Feather
1955 · Movie
as Chief Broken Hand
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955 · Movie
as King Edward
The Last Command
1955 · Movie
as Lorenzo de Quesada
Gunsmoke
1955 · TV Show
as Amos Cartwright, Judge John Kendall
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · TV Show
Broken Lance
1954 · Movie
as Two Moons
Beachhead
1954 · Movie
as Bouchard, French Planter
The Big Moment
1954 · Movie
as Dr. Berg
Sign of the Pagan
1954 · Movie
as Astrologer
Living It Up
1954 · Movie
as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
Climax!
1954 · TV Show
as Dr. James Lifford, Dr. Skinner
Dream Wife
1953 · Movie
as Khan
Latin Lovers
1953 · Movie
as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
The Jazz Singer
1953 · Movie
as David Golding
Sins of Jezebel
1953 · Movie
as Ahab
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Three Lives
1953 · Movie
as Rabbi
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV Show
as David, R.S. Thomasek
Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV Show
as Rev. Travers
Shadow in the Sky
1952 · Movie
as The Doctor
One Minute to Zero
1952 · Movie
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Everything I Have Is Yours
1952 · Movie
as Phil Meisner
Because You're Mine
1952 · Movie
as Albert Parkson Foster
Cavalcade of America
1952 · TV Show
as Samuel Morse
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Movie
as Dr. Stern
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · Movie
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
The Unknown Man
1951 · Movie
as Andrew Jason Layford
The Great Caruso
1951 · Movie
as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · TV Show
as Justice Brandeis
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · TV Show
as Prof. Randall, John Castleberry
Whirlpool
1950 · Movie
as Martin Avery
The Magnificent Yankee
1950 · Movie
as Louis Brandeis
The Vicious Years
1950 · Movie
as Emilio Rossi
Emergency Wedding
1950 · Movie
as Dr. Heimer
The Goldbergs
1950 · Movie
as Alexander Abel
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The du Pont Story
1950 · Movie
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Francis
1950 · Movie
as Colonel Plepper
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Lux Video Theatre
1950 · TV Show
as Emil, Father Pierre
Treasury Men in Action
1950 · TV Show
as Ed Emery
Madame Bovary
1949 · Movie
as Rouault
Outpost in Morocco
1949 · Movie
as Emir of Bel-Rashad
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1949 · Movie
as Gottfried Steiner
Hollow Triumph
1948 · Movie
as Frederick Muller
The Iron Curtain
1948 · Movie
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
Wake of the Red Witch
1948 · Movie
as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
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Ford Theatre
1948 · TV Show
