Eduard Franz

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-10-31 (81 years old)

Deathday

1983-02-10

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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. He made his film debut in a bit part, in 1947, in Kille...

Acting

1955

Man on the Ledge

as Dr. Benson

1962

Hatari!

as Doctor Sanderson

1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg

1948

Hollow Triumph

as Frederick Muller

1948

The Iron Curtain

as Maj. Semyon Kulin

1950

Whirlpool

as Martin Avery

1948

Wake of the Red Witch

as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven

1954

Broken Lance

as Two Moons

1960

1954

Beachhead

as Bouchard, French Planter

1949

Madame Bovary

as Rouault

1971

Johnny Got His Gun

as Col. / Gen. Tillery

1951

The Unknown Man

as Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford

1953

Dream Wife

as Khan

1955

The Indian Fighter

as Red Cloud

1950

The Magnificent Yankee

as Louis Brandeis

1961

Francis of Assisi

as Pietro Bernardone

1951

The Great Caruso

as Giulio Gatti-Casazza

1956

The Burning Hills

as Jacob Lantz

1957

Collector’s Item

as Mr. Peasley

1955

White Feather

as Chief Broken Hand

1955

1957

Man Afraid

as Carl Simmons

1958

1952

Shadow in the Sky

as The Doctor

1952

One Minute to Zero

as Dr. Gustav Engstrand

1952

1949

Outpost in Morocco

as Emir of Bel-Rashad

1953

Latin Lovers

as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman

1953

The Jazz Singer

as David Golding

1949

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

as Gottfried Steiner

1953

1956

Three for Jamie Dawn

as Anton Karek

1950

The Vicious Years

as Emilio Rossi

1954

The Big Moment

as Dr. Berg

1950

Emergency Wedding

as Dr. Heimer

1950

The Goldbergs

as Alexander Abel

1950

The Du Pont Story

as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont

1954

Sign of the Pagan

as Astrologer

1950

Francis

as Colonel Plepper

1955

The Last Command

as Lorenzo de Quesada

1958

Day of the Badman

as Andrew Owens

1954

Living It Up

as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)

1961

The Fiercest Heart

as Hugo Baumon

1958

A Certain Smile

as Monsieur Vallon

1970

The Brotherhood of the Bell

as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy

1974

Panic on the 5:22

as Jerome Hartford

1952

Because You're Mine

as Albert Parkson Foster

1967

The President's Analyst

as Ethan Allen Cocket

1966

Cyborg 2087

as Prof. Sigmund Marx

1953

Three Lives

as Rabbi

1957

Not One Shall Die

as Mr. Selig

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