Eduard Franz
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Eduard Franz (born as Eduard Franz Schmidt, (October 31, 1902, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - February 10, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American actor of theater, film and television. Franz portrayed Ahab in the 1953 biblical film Sins of Jezebel.
He was a leading Broadway actor for nearly 20 years, 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 played such intellectuals as Dr. Stern in The Thing (From Another Planet) or Justice Louis Brandeis in The Magnificent Yankee. In 1963, Franz was cast as psychiatric clinic director Dr. Edward Raymer on the weekly ABC TV drama Breaking Point.[1]
