Oscar Apfel

Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 – March 21, 1938) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927.

Biography Apfel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After a number of years in commerce, he decided to adopt the stage as a profession. He secured his first professional engagement in 1900, in his hometown. He rose rapidly and soon held a position as director and producer, and was at the time noted as being the youngest stage director in America. where he made the innovative short film The Passer-By (1912). He also did some experimental work at Edison's laboratory in Orange, on the Edison Talking Pictures devices.

Selected filmography Actor

The Texan (1930) as Thacker Abraham Lincoln (1930) as Secretary of War Stanton The Spoilers (1930) as A. Struve Liliom (1930) as Stefen Kadar (uncredited) The Virtuous Sin (1930) as Maj. Ivanoff Huckleberry Finn (1931) as The King Five Star Final (1931) as Bernard Hinchecliffe Sidewalks of New York (1931) as Judge The Yellow Ticket (1931) as British Embassy Butler (uncredited) The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932) as Dr. Rabeouf Speak Easily (1932) as Lawyer's Representative (uncredited) A Successful Calamity (1932) as President of the United States Make Me a Star (1932) as Henshaw False Faces (1932) as Fineberg High Pressure (1932) as Mr. Hackett Call Her Savage (1932) as Doctor Treating Crosby (uncredited) Rasputin and the Empress (1932) as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) Employees' Entrance (1933) as Board of Directors Member #5 (uncredited) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) as German Delegate to Debt Conference (uncredited) The Story of Temple Drake (1933) as District Attorney (uncredited) Storm at Daybreak (1933) as Counselor Velasch (uncredited) Tugboat Annie (1933) as Reynolds (uncredited) One Man's Journey (1933) as John Radford The Bowery (1933) as Ivan Rummel The World Changes (1933) as Mr. Morley The House of Rothschild (1934) as Prussian Officer Whirlpool (1934) as Newspaper Editor Manhattan Melodrama (1934) as Speaker of Assembly (uncredited) The Old Fashioned Way (1934) as Mr. Livingston (uncredited) Bordertown (1935) as Judge Rufus Barnswell (uncredited) Romance in Manhattan (1935) as The Judge Dante's Inferno (1935) as Mr. Williams (uncredited) Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) as President Malloy O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935) as Martha's Lawyer Sutter's Gold (1936) as Bartender (uncredited) Hearts in Bondage (1936) as Capt. Gilman San Francisco (1936) as Founders' Club Member (uncredited) Crack-Up (1936) as Alfred Knuxton The Toast of New York (1937) as Wallack (uncredited) Fifty Roads to Town (1937) as Smorgen Conquest (1937) as Count Potocka (uncredited) Angel of Mercy (1939, Short) as Red Cross Representative (uncredited)

Director The Bells (1913) The Squaw Man (1914) The Master Mind (1914) The Man on the Box (1914) After Five (1915) The Little Gypsy (1915) The Battle of Hearts (1916) The Hidden Children (1917) The Turn of a Card (1918) The Rough Neck (1919) Ravished Armenia (1919) Phil for Short (1919) Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921) Bulldog Drummond (1922) The Sporting Chance (1925) The Thoroughbred (1925) The Last Alarm (1926) Somebody's Mother (1926)