Eduard Franz [94070]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 1.0981
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: 1902-10-31
Deathday: 1983-02-10
Age: 80 years
Movies: 57
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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

Twilight Zone: T
1983-06-24
Panic on the 5:2
1974-11-20
Johnny Got His G
1971-08-04
The Brotherhood
1970-09-17
The President's
1967-12-21
Cyborg 2087
1966-10-01
Hatari!
1962-06-19
Beauty and the B
1962-03-01
Francis of Assis
1961-07-12
The Fiercest Hea
1961-04-30
The Story of Rut
1960-06-17
The Four Skulls
1959-11-13
A Certain Smile
1958-07-31
The Last of the
1958-07-01
Day of the Badma
1958-01-29
Collector’s It
1957-12-01
Man Afraid
1957-04-04
Not One Shall Di
1957-01-01
The Ten Commandm
1956-10-05
The Burning Hill
1956-09-01
Three for Jamie
1956-07-08
Man on the Ledge
1955-12-28
The Indian Fight
1955-12-21
Lady Godiva of C
1955-11-02
The Last Command
1955-08-03
White Feather
1955-02-16
Sign of the Paga
1954-11-24
Broken Lance
1954-09-25
Living It Up
1954-07-15
The Big Moment
1954-03-07
Beachhead
1954-02-05
Three Lives
1953-09-17
Sins of Jezebel
1953-09-04
Latin Lovers
1953-08-12
Dream Wife
1953-06-19
The Jazz Singer
1953-02-14
Everything I Hav
1952-10-31
Because You're M
1952-10-01
One Minute to Ze
1952-09-19
Shadow in the Sk
1952-07-18
The Unknown Man
1951-11-09
The Desert Fox:
1951-10-16
The Great Caruso
1951-04-16
The Thing from A
1951-04-05
The Goldbergs
1950-12-23
The Magnificent
1950-12-20
The Du Pont Stor
1950-12-15
Emergency Weddin
1950-11-15
The Vicious Year
1950-03-10
Francis
1950-02-08
Whirlpool
1950-01-13
Oh, You Beautifu
1949-11-11
Madame Bovary
1949-08-25
Outpost in Moroc
1949-05-02
Wake of the Red
1948-12-30
Hollow Triumph
1948-08-18
The Iron Curtain
1948-06-16