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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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...
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Hawaii Five-OSeries • 1969
The FugitiveSeries • 1963
MannixSeries • 1967
The WaltonsSeries • 1972
The VirginianSeries • 1962
Have Gun, Will TravelSeries • 1957
Climax!Series • 1954
Hart to HartSeries • 1979
RawhideSeries • 1959
Ben CaseySeries • 1961
Wanted: Dead or AliveSeries • 1958
Medical CenterSeries • 1969
The F.B.I.Series • 1965
ZorroSeries • 1957
The InvadersSeries • 1967
ABC Afterschool SpecialSeries • 1972
The RookiesSeries • 1972
GunsmokeSeries • 1955
Vega$Series • 1978
The Streets of San FranciscoSeries • 1972
The Bionic WomanSeries • 1976
The 20th Century Fox HourSeries • 1955
The DuPont Show with June AllysonSeries • 1959
Stoney BurkeSeries • 1962