Eduard Franz
Oct 31, 1902 — Feb 10, 1983 (80 years)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
50 Movies
21 Series
Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Eduard Franz works as an actor. They are internationally recognised for their role in The Ten Commandments as Jethro. Their work further includes Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Thing from Another World. They have 50 films and 21 TV productions to their name, working mainly across genres like drama, horror.
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Eduard Franz
50 Movies
21 Series
Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Eduard Franz works as an actor. They are internationally recognised for their role in The Ten Commandments as Jethro. Their work further includes Twilight Zone: The Movie and The Thing from Another World. They have 50 films and 21 TV productions to their name, working mainly across genres like drama, horror.
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Movies
21
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Movies
The Ten Commandments
1956
Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
The Thing from Another World
1951
White Feather
1955
The Burning Hills
1956
The Indian Fighter
1955
Hatari!
1962
Johnny Got His Gun
1971
Living It Up
1954
Madame Bovary
1949
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955
Wake of the Red Witch
1948
A Certain Smile
1958
The Story of Ruth
1960
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951
Broken Lance
1954
Whirlpool
1950
Hollow Triumph
1948
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1949
The Last Command
1955
The Great Caruso
1951
The President's Analyst
1967
Sign of the Pagan
1954
Francis
1950
One Minute to Zero
1952
The Unknown Man
1951
Day of the Badman
1958
Dream Wife
1953
Francis of Assisi
1961
Outpost in Morocco
1949
Because You're Mine
1952
Shadow in the Sky
1952
Cyborg 2087
1966
The Iron Curtain
1948
The Jazz Singer
1953
Latin Lovers
1953
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958
Sins of Jezebel
1953
The Vicious Years
1950
Beauty and the Beast
1962
Man Afraid
1957
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959
Emergency Wedding
1950
Everything I Have Is Yours
1952
The Magnificent Yankee
1950
Beachhead
1954
TV Shows
General Electric Theater
1953
The Invaders
1967
The F.B.I.
1965
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Fugitive
1963
The Virginian
1962
Adam's Rib
1973
Climax!
1954
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Cavalcade of America
1952
Treasury Men in Action
1950
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959
Letter to Loretta
1953
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Assignment: Vienna
1972
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960
Startime
1959
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Full Filmography
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Old Man
1983
Film
Adam's Rib
Whittaker
1973
TV
Assignment: Vienna
Professor Hayes
1972
TV
Johnny Got His Gun
Col. / Gen. Tillery
1971
Film
Hawaii Five-O
Thomas Barlow
1977–1978
TV
The President's Analyst
Ethan Allen Cocket
1967
Film
The Invaders
Premier Thor Halvorsen
1967
TV
Cyborg 2087
Prof. Sigmund Marx
1966
Film
The F.B.I.
Dr. Keeler
1966
TV
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Eduard Franz still alive?
Eduard Franz passed away on February 10, 1983 at age 80.
What are the most famous roles of Eduard Franz?
Eduard Franz is best known for roles in The Ten Commandments, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Thing from Another World.
How many movies has Eduard Franz been in?
Over a 35-year career (since 1948), Eduard Franz has appeared in 58 movies and 42 TV shows.
What was Eduard Franz's first movie?
The career of Eduard Franz began with The Iron Curtain (1948).
What is Eduard Franz's most recent movie or series?
Eduard Franz's most recent release is Twilight Zone: The Movie, which premiered on June 24, 1983.
What TV shows has Eduard Franz appeared in?
On television, Eduard Franz has appeared in The Bionic Woman, Zorro, Hawaii Five-O, Hart to Hart.
Eduard Franz
1902-10-31 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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