From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEduard 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. DeMilles The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Kosters 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. Cronins novel Beyond This Place, which was directed by Sidney Lumet.Franz performed as well in two separate remakes of Al Jolsons 1927 cinema classic The Jazz Singer, each time playing the key role of the aged and ailing synagogue cantor upset by his sons decision to pursue a secular show-business career rather than continue the family tradition and follow in his fathers 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
Dr. Benson
Film 1955
Doctor Sanderson
Film 1962
Maj. Semyon Kulin
Film 1948
Martin Avery
Film 1950
Bouchard, French Planter
Film 1954
Khan
Film 1953
Red Cloud
Film 1955
Jonathan Drake
Film 1959
Louis Brandeis
Film 1950
Pietro Bernardone
Film 1961
Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Film 1951
Jacob Lantz
Film 1956
Mr. Peasley
Film 1957
King Edward
Film 1955
Carl Simmons
Film 1957
The Doctor
Film 1952
Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Film 1952
Phil Meisner
Film 1952
Emir of Bel-Rashad
Film 1949
Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
Film 1953
David Golding
Film 1953
Gottfried Steiner
Film 1949
Ahab
Film 1953
Anton Karek
Film 1956
Emilio Rossi
Film 1950
Dr. Berg
Film 1954
Dr. Heimer
Film 1950
Alexander Abel
Film 1950
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Film 1950
Astrologer
Film 1954
Lorenzo de Quesada
Film 1955
Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
Film 1954
Hugo Baumon
Film 1961
Monsieur Vallon
Film 1958
Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
Film 1970
Jerome Hartford
Film 1974
Rabbi
Film 1953
Tv 1972
Tv 1976
Thomas Barlow
Tv 1968
Tv 1972
Tv 1967
Tv 1969
Amos Cartwright
Tv 1955
Tv 1979
Tv 1957
Justice Brandeis
Tv 1951
Tv 1972
Mayor Arnold Opel
Tv 1959
Tv 1978
Tv 1957
Edward Roland
Tv 1963
Two Hawks
Tv 1962
Emil
Tv 1950
Tv 1951
Dr. James Lifford
Tv 1954
Tv 1963
Tv 1955
Tv 1948
Isaac Rankin
Tv 1958
Tv 1961
Tv 1958
Samuel Morse
Tv 1952
Tv 1962
Tv 1963
Ed Emery
Tv 1950
Tv 1957
Jules Silberg
Tv 1959
Rev. Travers
Tv 1953
Tv 1959
Dr. Paul Aldrich
Tv 1960
Judge John Kendall
Tv 1955
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Prof. Randall
Tv 1951
John Castleberry
Tv 1951
Father Pierre
Tv 1950
Professor Hayes
Tv 1972
Bayard Cole
Tv 1958
Professor MacKinnon
Tv 1968
Mr. Balzar
Tv 1960
Dr. Skinner
Tv 1954
Premier Thor Halvorsen
Tv 1967