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Eduard Franz 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).
Birth Name
Eduard Franz Schmidt
Born
Friday, 31 October 1902
Died
Thursday, 10 February 1983
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | Old Man (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") | 1983 |
| Hart to Hart | Walter Hampel / Herb Whitley | 1979 |
| The Paper Chase | Ernie, Sr. | 1978 |
| Vega$ | Jafai | 1978 |
| The Bionic Woman | Ky | 1976 |
| Panic on the 5:22 | Jerome Hartford | 1974 |
| The Sex Symbol | Otto Litsky (foreign theatrical version) | 1974 |
| Apple's Way | H.J. Swanson | 1974 |
| Adam's Rib | Whittaker | 1973 |
| ABC Afterschool Specials | Grandpa | 1972 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | Old Man (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") | 1983 |
| Hart to Hart | Walter Hampel / Herb Whitley | 1979 |
| The Paper Chase | Ernie, Sr. | 1978 |
| Vega$ | Jafai | 1978 |
| The Bionic Woman | Ky | 1976 |
| Panic on the 5:22 | Jerome Hartford | 1974 |
| The Sex Symbol | Otto Litsky (foreign theatrical version) | 1974 |
| Apple's Way | H.J. Swanson | 1974 |
| Adam's Rib | Whittaker | 1973 |
| ABC Afterschool Specials | Grandpa | 1972 |
| Assignment: Vienna | Prof. Hayes | 1972 |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Leo Steiner | 1972 |
| The Waltons | Col. Seth Linville / Cody Nelson | 1972 |
| The Rookies | Judge Caldwell | 1972 |
| Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Dr. Lewis | 1971 |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Col. / Gen. Tillery | 1971 |
| The Interns | Gus | 1970 |
| The Brotherhood of the Bell | Dr. Konstantin Horvathy | 1970 |
| Medical Center | Blue Eagle / Ramon | 1969 |
| Hawaii Five-O | Thomas Barlow / Prof. David MacKinnon | 1968 |
| It Takes a Thief | Mr. Johnson | 1968 |
| The President's Analyst | Ethan Allan Cocket / Ethan Allen Cocket | 1967 |
| Mannix | Dr. Harris | 1967 |
| The Invaders | Premier Thor Halvorsen | 1967 |
| Cyborg 2087 | Prof. Sigmund Marx | 1966 |
| The F.B.I. | Rudolph Klahr / Gerald Salzman / Dr. Keeler | 1965 |
| A Man Called Shenandoah | Dr. Joshua Macauley | 1965 |
| For the People | Judge Newman | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | Adm. Siegfried von Kreuter | 1964 |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Victor Seaton | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | Edward Roland | 1963 |
| Breaking Point | Dr. William Raymer | 1963 |
| Stoney Burke | Terry Meade | 1962 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Orsini | 1962 |
| Wide Country | Dr. Carl Lukins | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Two Hawks | 1962 |
| Hatari! | Dr. Sanderson / Doctor Sanderson | 1962 |
| Ben Casey | Dr. William Raymer | 1961 |
| The Dick Powell Theatre | Prisoner / Dr. Bert Jacobson | 1961 |
| Francis of Assisi | Pietro Bernardone | 1961 |
| The Fiercest Heart | Hugo Baumon | 1961 |
| The Law and Mr. Jones | Gustave Helmer | 1960 |
| Michael Shayne | Dr. Thomas Thompson | 1960 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Dr. Paul Aldrich | 1960 |
| The Story of Ruth | Jehoam | 1960 |
| The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake | Jonathan Drake | 1959 |
| The Miracle | Priest | 1959 |
| Startime | Cantor Morris Rabinowitz | 1959 |
| The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Jules Silberg | 1959 |
| The Deputy | Wilk - Guitar Player | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Marius Angerville | 1959 |
| Markham | Father Mike Weathergay | 1959 |
| The David Niven Show | Prisoner Anton Helg | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Mayor Arnold Opel | 1959 |
| Cimarron City | Prof. James King | 1958 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | Isaac Rankin / Bayard Cole | 1958 |
| A Certain Smile | M. Vallon / Monsieur Vallon | 1958 |
| The Last of the Fast Guns | Padre Jose | 1958 |
| Day of the Badman | Andrew Owens | 1958 |
| Zorro | Gregorio Verdugo | 1957 |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | Dunn | 1957 |
| The Restless Gun | David Marcus | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Hiram Winthrop / Dr. Rand | 1957 |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | Herr Ludwig Donner | 1957 |
| Man Afraid | Carl Simmons | 1957 |
| Panic! | George Mason | 1957 |
| The Ten Commandments | Jethro | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Burton Wheless | 1956 |
| The Burning Hills | Jacob Lantz | 1956 |
| Three for Jamie Dawn | Anton Karek | 1956 |
| The Indian Fighter | Red Cloud | 1955 |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | King Edward | 1955 |
| The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Dr. Benson / Von Richter | 1955 |
| Casablanca | Ben Hassan | 1955 |
| The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial | De Santre | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Amos Cartwright / Judge John Kendall | 1955 |
| The Last Command | Lorenzo de Quesada | 1955 |
| White Feather | Chief Broken Hand | 1955 |
| Sign of the Pagan | Astrologer | 1954 |
| Climax! | Dr. Skinner / Dr. James Lifford | 1954 |
| Broken Lance | Two Moons | 1954 |
| Living It Up | Dr. Nassau | 1954 |
| Beachhead | Bouchard, French Planter | 1954 |
| The Loretta Young Show | Rev. Travers | 1953 |
| Sins of Jezebel | Ahab | 1953 |
| Latin Lovers | Dr. Lionel Y. Newman | 1953 |
| Dream Wife | Khan of Bukistan / Khan | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | David / R.S. Thomasek | 1953 |
| The Jazz Singer | David Golding / Cantor David Golding | 1952 |
| Everything I Have Is Yours | Phil Meisner | 1952 |
| The Ford Television Theatre | Paul | 1952 |
| Cavalcade of America | Samuel Morse | 1952 |
| Because You're Mine | Albert Parkson Foster | 1952 |
| One Minute to Zero | Dr. Gustav Engstrand | 1952 |
| Shadow in the Sky | The Doctor | 1952 |
| Death Valley Days | Rabbi Eli Lipner | 1952 |
| The Unknown Man | Andrew Jason Layford / Andrew Jason 'Andy' Layford | 1951 |
| The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel | Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | John Castleberry / Prof. Randall | 1951 |
| The Great Caruso | Giulio Gatti-Casazza | 1951 |
| The Thing from Another World | Dr. Stern | 1951 |
| The Goldbergs | Alexander 'Abie' Abel / Alexander Abel | 1950 |
| The Magnificent Yankee | Judge Louis Brandeis / Louis Brandeis | 1950 |
| The Du Pont Story | Eleuthère Irénée du Pont | 1950 |
| Emergency Wedding | Dr. Heimer | 1950 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Father Pierre / Emil | 1950 |
| Treasury Men in Action | Ed Emery | 1950 |
| The Vicious Years | Emilio Rossi | 1950 |
| Francis | Colonel Plepper | 1950 |
| Whirlpool | Martin Avery | 1950 |
| Oh, You Beautiful Doll | Gottfried Steiner | 1949 |
| Madame Bovary | Roualt / Rouault | 1949 |
| Outpost in Morocco | Emir of Bel-Rashad | 1949 |
| Wake of the Red Witch | Harmenszoon Van Schreeven | 1949 |
| Hollow Triumph | Frederick Muller | 1949 |
| The Iron Curtain | Maj. Semyon Kulin | 1948 |
