Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-10-31 (81 years old)
Deathday
1983-02-10
Place of Birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also known As
Eduard Franz Schmidt
ادوارد فرانتس
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 Kille...
1955
as Dr. Benson
1951
as Dr. Stern
1962
as Doctor Sanderson
1956
as Jethro
1951
as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
1948
as Frederick Muller
1948
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
1950
as Martin Avery
1948
as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
1954
as Two Moons
1960
as Jehoam
1954
as Bouchard, French Planter
1949
as Rouault
1971
as Col. / Gen. Tillery
1951
as Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford
1953
as Khan
1955
as Red Cloud
1959
as Jonathan Drake
1950
as Louis Brandeis
1961
as Pietro Bernardone
1951
as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
1956
as Jacob Lantz
1957
as Mr. Peasley
1955
as Chief Broken Hand
1955
as King Edward
1957
as Carl Simmons
1958
as Padre Jose
1952
as The Doctor
1952
as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
1952
as Phil Meisner
1949
as Emir of Bel-Rashad
1953
as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
1962
as Orsini
1953
as David Golding
1949
as Gottfried Steiner
1953
as Ahab
1956
as Anton Karek
1950
as Emilio Rossi
1983
as Old Man
1954
as Dr. Berg
1950
as Dr. Heimer
1950
as Alexander Abel
1950
as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
1954
as Astrologer
1950
as Colonel Plepper
1955
as Lorenzo de Quesada
1958
as Andrew Owens
1954
as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
1961
as Hugo Baumon
1958
as Monsieur Vallon
1970
as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
1974
as Jerome Hartford
1952
as Albert Parkson Foster
1967
as Ethan Allen Cocket
1966
as Prof. Sigmund Marx
1953
as Rabbi
1957
as Mr. Selig
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