Personal Info
Birth date
1902-10-31 (122 Years)
Day of death
1983-02-10
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Also known as
Eduard Franz Schmidt
ادوارد فرانتس
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 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
Filmography
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Overview:
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Overview:
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.Mannix
6.686
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Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.The Waltons
7.097
Overview:
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.The F.B.I.
5.455
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The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.Zorro
7.483
Overview:
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.ABC Afterschool Special
6.429
Overview:
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.The Invaders
6.807
Overview:
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.The Bionic Woman
6.969
Overview:
After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.Ben Casey
5.6
Overview:
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.Hawaii Five-O
7.13
Overview:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".Vega$
7
Overview:
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.Medical Center
6.1
Overview:
Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.Hart to Hart
6.831
Overview:
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.Ford Theatre
NYR
Overview:
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.Rawhide
7.111
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.Stoney Burke
5.7
Overview:
Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-0, Jack Lord starred in the title role.The DuPont Show with June Allyson
6.3
Overview:
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson.Treasury Men in Action
5.5
Overview:
Treasury Men in Action is an American crime drama series broadcast live and which aired from 1950 through 1955 on ABC. The series stars Walter Greaza, Ross Martin, and Tom McKee. It was directed by William Beaudine, Leigh Jason, and Will Jason among others.Climax!
3.273
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Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.The Barbara Stanwyck Show
6.2
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.DuPont Show of the Month
6.75
Overview:
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.The Rookies
6.8
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The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.The Fugitive
7.207
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Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.The Streets of San Francisco
6.935
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Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.Breaking Point
7.25
Overview:
Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964, continuing in rebroadcasts until September 7. The series, which was a spinoff of Ben Casey, stars Paul Richards and Eduard Franz. The series was created by Meta Rosenberg.The Virginian
6.387
Overview:
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.Letter to Loretta
6.5
Overview:
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.Acting
1983Twilight Zone: The Movie as Old Man
1979Hart to Hart (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1978Vega$ (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976The Bionic Woman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974Panic on the 5:22 as Jerome Hartford
1973Adam's Rib (1 Episode) as Whittaker
1972ABC Afterschool Special (1 Episode) as Grandpa
1972Assignment: Vienna (1 Episode) as Professor Hayes
1972The Streets of San Francisco (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972The Waltons (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1972The Rookies (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971Johnny Got His Gun as Col. / Gen. Tillery
1970The Brotherhood of the Bell as Dr. Konstantin Horvathy
1969Medical Center (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Hawaii Five-O (1, 1 Episode) as Thomas Barlow, Professor MacKinnon
1967The President's Analyst as Ethan Allen Cocket
1967Mannix (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967The Invaders (2 Episodes) as Premier Thor Halvorsen
1966Cyborg 2087 as Prof. Sigmund Marx
1965The F.B.I. (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. Keeler, Rudolph Klahr
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963The Fugitive (1 Episode) as Edward Roland
1963Breaking Point (30 Episodes) as Unknown
1962Stoney Burke (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as Two Hawks
1962Hatari! as Doctor Sanderson
1962Beauty and the Beast as Orsini
1961Ben Casey (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1961Francis of Assisi as Pietro Bernardone
1961The Fiercest Heart as Hugo Baumon
1960The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1 Episode) as Mr. Balzar
1960The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1 Episode) as Dr. Paul Aldrich
1960The Story of Ruth as Jehoam
1959The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake as Jonathan Drake
1959Startime (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1 Episode) as Jules Silberg
1959Rawhide (1 Episode) as Mayor Arnold Opel
1958Cimarron City (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive (1, 1 Episode) as Isaac Rankin, Bayard Cole
1958A Certain Smile as Monsieur Vallon
1958The Last of the Fast Guns as Padre Jose
1958Day of the Badman as Andrew Owens
1957Collector’s Item as Mr. Peasley
1957Zorro (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1957DuPont Show of the Month (1 Episode) as Dunn
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Man Afraid as Carl Simmons
1957Panic! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Not One Shall Die as Mr. Selig
1956The Ten Commandments as Jethro
1956The Burning Hills as Jacob Lantz
1956Three for Jamie Dawn as Anton Karek
1955Man on the Ledge as Dr. Benson
1955The Indian Fighter as Red Cloud
1955Lady Godiva of Coventry as King Edward
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Gunsmoke (1, 1 Episode) as Amos Cartwright, Judge John Kendall
1955The Last Command as Lorenzo de Quesada
1955White Feather as Chief Broken Hand
1954Sign of the Pagan as Astrologer
1954Climax! (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. James Lifford, Dr. Skinner
1954Broken Lance as Two Moons
1954Living It Up as Dr. Nassau (uncredited)
1954The Big Moment as Dr. Berg
1954Beachhead as Bouchard, French Planter
1953Letter to Loretta (1 Episode) as Rev. Travers
1953Three Lives as Rabbi
1953Sins of Jezebel as Ahab
1953Latin Lovers as Dr. Lionel Y. Newman
1953Dream Wife as Khan
1953The Jazz Singer as David Golding
1953General Electric Theater (2, 1 Episode) as David, R.S. Thomasek
1952Everything I Have Is Yours as Phil Meisner
1952Because You're Mine as Albert Parkson Foster
1952Cavalcade of America (1, 1 Episode) as Samuel Morse, Unknown
1952One Minute to Zero as Dr. Gustav Engstrand
1952Shadow in the Sky as The Doctor
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Justice Brandeis
1951The Unknown Man as Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford
1951The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (2, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Prof. Randall, John Castleberry
1951The Great Caruso as Giulio Gatti-Casazza
1951The Thing from Another World as Dr. Stern
1950The Goldbergs as Alexander Abel
1950The Magnificent Yankee as Louis Brandeis
1950The Du Pont Story as Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
1950Emergency Wedding as Dr. Heimer
1950Lux Video Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Emil, Father Pierre
1950Treasury Men in Action (1 Episode) as Ed Emery
1950The Vicious Years as Emilio Rossi
1950Francis as Colonel Plepper
1950Whirlpool as Martin Avery
1949Oh, You Beautiful Doll as Gottfried Steiner
1949Madame Bovary as Rouault
1949Outpost in Morocco as Emir of Bel-Rashad
1948Wake of the Red Witch as Harmenszoon Van Schreeven
1948Ford Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1948Hollow Triumph as Frederick Muller
1948The Iron Curtain as Maj. Semyon Kulin