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The President's Analyst

as Ethan Allen Cocket

1967
Hatari!

as Doctor Sanderson

1962
Francis of Assisi

as Pietro Bernardone

1961
The Fiercest Heart

as Hugo Baumon

1961
The Story of Ruth

as Jehoam

1960
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

as Jonathan Drake

1959
The Last of the Fast Guns

as Padre Jose

1958
The Burning Hills

as Jacob Lantz

1956
The Indian Fighter

as Red Cloud

1955
Lady Godiva of Coventry

as King Edward

1955
White Feather

as Chief Broken Hand

1955
Broken Lance

as Two Moons

1954
Dream Wife

as Khan

1953
Latin Lovers

as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman

1953
The Jazz Singer

as David Golding

1953
Because You're Mine

as Albert Parkson Foster

1952
One Minute to Zero

as Dr. Gustav Engstrand

1952
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg

1951
The Unknown Man

as Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford

1951
The Great Caruso

as Giulio Gatti-Casazza

1951
Whirlpool

as Martin Avery

1950
Francis

as Colonel Plepper

1950
The Vicious Years

as Emilio Rossi

1950
Outpost in Morocco

as Emir of Bel-Rashad

1949
Hollow Triumph

as Frederick Muller

1948
The Iron Curtain

as Maj. Semyon Kulin

1948
Wake of the Red Witch

as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven

1948
Eduard Franz Eduard Franz

Birthday

1902-10-31

Place of Birth

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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 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
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