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 Commandmen ... ts (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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General Electric Theater
as David
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
The Invaders
as Premier Thor Halvorsen
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 10, 1967
The F.B.I.
as Dr. Keeler
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1965
Hawaii Five-O
as Thomas Barlow
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1968
Gunsmoke
as Amos Cartwright
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Justice Brandeis
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
Rawhide
as Mayor Arnold Opel
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
The Fugitive
as Edward Roland
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1963
The Virginian
as Two Hawks
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1962
Adam's Rib
as Whittaker
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 14, 1973
Lux Video Theatre
as Emil
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1950
Climax!
as Dr. James Lifford
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1954
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Isaac Rankin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 06, 1958
Cavalcade of America
as Samuel Morse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
Treasury Men in Action
as Ed Emery
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 11, 1950
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Jules Silberg
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1959
ABC Afterschool Special
as Grandpa
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1972
Letter to Loretta
as Rev. Travers
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1953
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dr. Paul Aldrich
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1960
DuPont Show of the Month
as Dunn
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1957
The F.B.I.
as Rudolph Klahr
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 1965
Gunsmoke
as Judge John Kendall
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
General Electric Theater
as R.S. Thomasek
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Prof. Randall
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as John Castleberry
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
Lux Video Theatre
as Father Pierre
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1950
Assignment: Vienna
as Professor Hayes
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 28, 1972
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Bayard Cole
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 06, 1958
Hawaii Five-O
as Professor MacKinnon
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1968
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
as Mr. Balzar
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 18, 1960
Climax!
as Dr. Skinner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1954
Breaking Point
Episodes: 30
First Aired: Sep 16, 1963
Zorro
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Oct 10, 1957
Hart to Hart
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 22, 1979
The Waltons
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 14, 1972
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 05, 1955
Ben Casey
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 02, 1961
The Rookies
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 11, 1972
The Bionic Woman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 14, 1976
The Streets of San Francisco
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1972
Mannix
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1967
Medical Center
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1969
Vega$
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1978
Have Gun, Will Travel
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 14, 1957
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1963
Ford Theatre
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 17, 1948
Cimarron City
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 27, 1958
Stoney Burke
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
Panic!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 05, 1957
Startime
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 1959
Cavalcade of America
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
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