Eduard Franz

Personal Info

Birthday

October 31, 1902

Day of Death

1983-02-10

(80 years old)

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As

Eduard Franz Schmidt

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Eduard Franz

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.

Known For

The Fugitive

Hawaii Five-O

Climax!

The Virginian

Rawhide

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Gunsmoke

The F.B.I.

Filmography

1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Old Man
1974
Panic on the 5:22
as Jerome Hartford
1971
Johnny Got His Gun
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
1970
The Brotherhood of the Bell
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
1967
The President's Analyst
as Ethan Allen Cocket
1966
Cyborg 2087
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
1962
Hatari!
as Doctor Sanderson
Beauty and the Beast
as Orsini
1961
Francis of Assisi
as Pietro Bernardone
The Fiercest Heart
as Hugo Baumon
1960
The Story of Ruth
as Jehoam
1959
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
as Jonathan Drake
1958
A Certain Smile
as Monsieur Vallon
The Last of the Fast Guns
as Padre Jose
Day of the Badman
as Andrew Owens
1957
Collector’s Item
as Mr. Peasley
Man Afraid
as Carl Simmons
Not One Shall Die
as Mr. Selig
1956
The Ten Commandments
as Jethro
The Burning Hills
as Jacob Lantz
Three for Jamie Dawn
as Anton Karek
1955
Man on the Ledge
as Dr. Benson
The Indian Fighter
as Red Cloud
Lady Godiva of Coventry
as King Edward
The Last Command
as Lorenzo de Quesada
White Feather
as Chief Broken Hand
1954
Sign of the Pagan
as Astrologer
Broken Lance
as Two Moons
Living It Up
as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
The Big Moment
as Dr. Berg
Beachhead
as Bouchard, French Planter
1953
Three Lives
as Rabbi
Sins of Jezebel
as Ahab
Latin Lovers
as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
Dream Wife
as Khan
The Jazz Singer
as David Golding
1952
Everything I Have Is Yours
as Phil Meisner
Because You're Mine
as Albert Parkson Foster
One Minute to Zero
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Shadow in the Sky
as The Doctor
1951
The Unknown Man
as Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
The Great Caruso
as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
The Thing from Another World
as Dr. Stern
1950
The Goldbergs
as Alexander Abel
The Magnificent Yankee
as Louis Brandeis
The Du Pont Story
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Emergency Wedding
as Dr. Heimer
The Vicious Years
as Emilio Rossi
Francis
as Colonel Plepper
Whirlpool
as Martin Avery
1949
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
as Gottfried Steiner
Madame Bovary
as Rouault
Outpost in Morocco
as Emir of Bel-Rashad
1948
Wake of the Red Witch
as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
Hollow Triumph
as Frederick Muller
The Iron Curtain
as Maj. Semyon Kulin