16 Facts About Eduard Franz

Eduard Franz Schmidt was an American actor of theatre, film and television.

Eduard Franz appeared with Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones and with Walter Huston in Desire Under the Elms.

Eduard Franz continued to perform until his stage work was interrupted by the Great Depression.

The young couple soon returned to Wisconsin, where Eduard Franz acted in regional theater while teaching art to pay the bills.

Eduard Franz became a leading Broadway actor for nearly 30 years, in such plays as First Stop to Heaven, Home of the Brave, Embezzled Heaven, and Conversation at Midnight.

Eduard Franz 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.

Eduard Franz played such intellectuals as Dr Stern in The Thing from Another World, a university professor in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, and Justice Louis Brandeis in The Magnificent Yankee, a role he reprised in the 1965 television adaptation.

Eduard 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.

In 1956, Eduard Franz appeared on a first-season episode of Gunsmoke titled "Indian Scout", performing in the role of Amos Cartwight, a scout for the United States cavalry who knowingly leads the troopers into an ambush by a Comanche war party.

Later, In 1958, Eduard Franz was cast in the second season of Zorro, playing the role of Senor Gregorio Verdugo.

Eduard Franz guest-starred as Jules Silberg in the 1960 episode "The Test" of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

In 1961, Eduard Franz starred in the episode "The Duke of Texas" of Western series Have Gun - Will Travel.

Also, in that same year, Eduard Franz guest-starred as Gustave Helmer in the ABC legal drama The Law and Mr Jones with James Whitmore in the title role and Jack Mullaney as a second guest star.

Two years later, Eduard Franz was cast as psychiatric clinic director Dr Edward Raymer in 30 episodes of the weekly ABC medical drama Breaking Point with co-star Paul Richards.

Eduard Franz made his final film appearance in a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Eduard Franz died in February, 1983, five months before the film's release.