Franz Schulz (born 22 March 1897 in Prague, Austria-Hungary, died 4 May 1971, in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland) was a playwright and screenwriter who worked from 1920 through 1956.
[5] In 1939, Schulz co-founded the 'Austrian Exile Theatre Laterndl' that attempted to preserve Viennese culture through performances of cabaret and stage plays until August 1945.
[6] In 1938-39 he worked with Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett to create the Mitchell Leisen comedy film Midnight.
Upon the end of World War II emigrated to the United States where he continued work in film (and later television) as a screenwriter.
His last feature film was the 1956 Drayman Henschel [de], for which he adapted the 1898 Gerhart Hauptmann stage play of the same name for director Josef von Báky.