1902-10-31 ( 122 years old ) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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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
Movies
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983-06-24
Panic on the 5:22
1974-11-20
Johnny Got His Gun
1971-08-04
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970-09-17
The President's Analyst
1967-12-21
Cyborg 2087
1966-10-01
Hatari!
1962-06-19
Beauty and the Beast
1962-03-01
Francis of Assisi
1961-07-12
The Fiercest Heart
1961-04-30
The Story of Ruth
1960-06-17
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959-11-13
A Certain Smile
1958-07-31
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958-07-01
Day of the Badman
1958-01-29
Collector’s Item
1957-12-01
Man Afraid
1957-04-04
Not One Shall Die
1957-01-01
The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05
The Burning Hills
1956-09-01
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956-07-08
Man on the Ledge
1955-12-28
The Indian Fighter
1955-12-21
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955-11-02
The Last Command
1955-08-03
White Feather
1955-02-16
Sign of the Pagan
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 Have Is Yours
1952-10-31
Because You're Mine
1952-10-01
One Minute to Zero
1952-09-19
Shadow in the Sky
1952-07-18
The Unknown Man
1951-11-09
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951-10-16
The Great Caruso
1951-04-16
The Thing from Another World
1951-04-05
The Goldbergs
1950-12-23
The Magnificent Yankee
1950-12-20
The Du Pont Story
1950-12-15
Emergency Wedding
1950-11-15
The Vicious Years
1950-03-10
Francis
1950-02-08
Whirlpool
1950-01-13
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1949-11-11
Madame Bovary
1949-08-25
Outpost in Morocco
1949-05-02
Wake of the Red Witch
1948-12-30
Hollow Triumph
1948-08-18
The Iron Curtain
1948-06-16
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