Actor
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 y ...

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