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