Eduard Franz

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Eduard Franz (born October 31, 1902 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin as Eduard Franz Schmidt , † February 10, 1987 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor . Between 1948 and 1983 he made appearances in over 50 films and almost 70 television series.

life and career

Eduard Franz was born in Milwaukee into a German-American family. He first played successfully on Broadway in New York for two decades before making his cinema debut in William A. Wellman's crime film The Iron Curtain in 1948 at the age of 45. With his “educated, distinguished appearance”, he mainly played authority figures such as fathers, doctors, judges and high officers. In 1951, in the biography Rommel, the desert fox , he became the first film actor of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, alongside James Mason . He also appeared particularly frequently in Bible adaptations, for example as King Ahab in Sins of Jezebel (1953) and as Jethro , father-in-law of Moses ( Charlton Heston ), in Cecil B. DeMille's monumental film The Ten Commandments (1956). Franz has been seen twice under the direction of Howard Hawks : In the classic science fiction film Das Ding aus Another World (1951) he played a scientist, in the star-studded adventure film Hatari! (1962) he embodied the hospital director Dr. Sanderson .

One of his few leading roles had Eduard Franz in 1959 in the cheaply produced horror film The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake , directed by Edward L. Cahn . Since the 1960s, the actor played predominantly on television and made guest appearances in series such as Bonanza , The Waltons , The Streets of San Francisco and Hart but Warm . In the television series Breaking Point , which was never broadcast in Germany , he also played a leading role as director of a psychiatry between 1953 and 1964. Eduard Franz had his last appearance in 1983 in the movie Unheimliche Schattenlichter . Four years later he died after a long illness at the age of 84.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Franz at Allmovie
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Eduard Franz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1987
Place of death Los Angeles , California