Eduard Franz

Eduard Franz was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical lowbudget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMilles The Ten Commandments , and Jehoam in Henry Kosters The Story of Ruth .

Franz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a leading Broadway actor for nearlyyears, in such plays as First Stop to Heaven and Embezzled Heaven, before making his film debut opposite 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 , a university professor in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake , and Justice Louis Brandeis in The Magnificent Yankee. He appeared in a 1957 television adaptation of A. J. Cronins novel, Beyond This Place, which was directed by Sidney Lumet.

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