Eduard Franz

Actor Oct 31 (died age 80) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 1948–1983 (35 year career)

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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 y…

Known For

Film

The Ten Commandments

Jethro

Film

Johnny Got His Gun

Col. / Gen. Tillery

Film

The Thing from Another World

Dr. Stern

Film

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Old Man

Film

Hatari!

Doctor Sanderson

Film

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg

Film

Whirlpool

Martin Avery

Film

The Story of Ruth

Jehoam

Filmography

Acting (100)

Movies (58)

Twilight Zone: The Movie

as Old Man

Panic on the 5:22

as Jerome Hartford

Johnny Got His Gun

as Col. / Gen. Tillery

7.5

The Brotherhood of the Bell

1970

as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy

5.5

The President's Analyst

1967

as Ethan Allen Cocket

5.7

Cyborg 2087

1966

as Prof. Sigmund Marx

Hatari!

as Doctor Sanderson

Beauty and the Beast

as Orsini

Francis of Assisi

as Pietro Bernardone

The Fiercest Heart

as Hugo Baumon

The Story of Ruth

as Jehoam

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

1959

as Jonathan Drake

5.9

The Jazz Singer

1959

as Cantor Morris Rabinowitz

The Last of the Fast Guns

as Padre Jose

Day of the Badman

as Andrew Owens

A Certain Smile

as Monsieur Vallon

Man Afraid

as Carl Simmons

Collector’s Item

as Mr. Peasley

Not One Shall Die

1957

as Mr. Selig

The Ten Commandments

as Jethro

The Burning Hills

as Jacob Lantz

Three for Jamie Dawn

as Anton Karek

The Indian Fighter

as Red Cloud

White Feather

as Chief Broken Hand

Lady Godiva of Coventry

1955

as King Edward

5.3

The Last Command

1955

as Lorenzo de Quesada

6.4

Man on the Ledge

1955

as Dr. Benson

Living It Up

1954

as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)

6.4

The Big Moment

1954

as Dr. Berg

Beachhead

1954

as Bouchard, French Planter

Broken Lance

as Two Moons

Sign of the Pagan

as Astrologer

Latin Lovers

as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman

The Jazz Singer

as David Golding

Three Lives

as Rabbi

Sins of Jezebel

as Ahab

Dream Wife

as Khan

Everything I Have Is Yours

1952

as Phil Meisner

5.8

Because You're Mine

1952

as Albert Parkson Foster

6.7

One Minute to Zero

1952

as Dr. Gustav Engstrand

5.8

Shadow in the Sky

1952

as The Doctor

6.6

The Thing from Another World

1951

as Dr. Stern

6.7

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951

as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg

6.7

The Unknown Man

1951

as Andrew Jason Layford

4.8

The Great Caruso

1951

as Giulio Gatti-Casazza

5.7

The du Pont Story

1950

as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont

Whirlpool

as Martin Avery

Francis

as Colonel Plepper

The Goldbergs

as Alexander Abel

The Magnificent Yankee

as Louis Brandeis

Emergency Wedding

as Dr. Heimer

The Vicious Years

as Emilio Rossi

Outpost in Morocco

as Emir of Bel-Rashad

4.8

Madame Bovary

1949

as Rouault

6.8

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

1949

as Gottfried Steiner

4.7

Wake of the Red Witch

1948

as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven

The Iron Curtain

as Maj. Semyon Kulin

Hollow Triumph

as Frederick Muller

Television (42)

Hart to Hart

Vega$

The Bionic Woman

Adam's Rib

as Whittaker

ABC Afterschool Special

as Grandpa

The Waltons

The Streets of San Francisco

The Rookies

Assignment: Vienna

as Professor Hayes

Medical Center

Hawaii Five-O

as Thomas Barlow

Mannix

The Invaders

as Premier Thor Halvorsen

The F.B.I.

as Dr. Keeler

The Fugitive

as Edward Roland

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Breaking Point

The Virginian

as Two Hawks

Stoney Burke

Ben Casey

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

1960

as Dr. Paul Aldrich

6.2

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

1960

as Mr. Balzar

Rawhide

as Mayor Arnold Opel

Startime

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

1959

as Jules Silberg

6.3

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Isaac Rankin

Cimarron City

Have Gun, Will Travel

Zorro

DuPont Show of the Month

as Dunn

Panic!

Gunsmoke

as Amos Cartwright

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Climax!

as Dr. James Lifford

General Electric Theater

as David

Letter to Loretta

as Rev. Travers

Cavalcade of America

as Samuel Morse

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Justice Brandeis

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.2

Treasury Men in Action

as Ed Emery

Lux Video Theatre

as Emil

Ford Theatre