Eduard Franz (Actor)

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Movies starring Eduard Franz have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.

Johnny Got His Gun - released in 1971 - is Eduard Franz's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 209 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Eduard Franz is Beauty and the Beast - released in 1962 - with a score of 41% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Eduard Franz (born Eduard Franz Schmidt; October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1987) what is 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 letter appearance the next year with a memorable role in the motion picture The Scar (so 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 search 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 what is cast as psychiatric clinic director Dr.

Eduard Franz has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Frank Mills, Richard Anderson and Philip Ober.

Eduard Franz has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Richard Thorpe, Stuart Heisler and Edward L. Cahn.