Oscar Apfel

Known for: Acting
Born: January 16, 1878, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died: March 21, 1938
Movies: 202

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Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 – March 21, 1938) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 167 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927.

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.[1] He spent eleven years on the stage on Broadway then joined the Edison Manufacturing Company. Apfel first directed for Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1911–12, 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.

Best-Known Movies

7.0

Manhattan Melodrama

1934

6.6

Five Star Final

1931

5.5

Abraham Lincoln

1930

6.5

The Story of Temple Drake

1933

5.9

Bordertown

1935

6.2

Employees' Entrance

1933

5.7

Call Her Savage

1932

6.5

Hot Saturday

1932

6.2

The House of Rothschild

1934

6.0

The Squaw Man

1914

Filmography

1939	Angel of Mercy	Red Cross Representative (uncredited)
1937	The Toast of New York	Wallack (uncredited)
1937	Fifty Roads to Town	Smorgen
1937	The Soldier and the Lady	Tsar's General (Uncredited)
1937	Jim Hanvey, Detective	Lambert
1937	Trouble in Morocco	DeRouget
1937	We Who Are About to Die	Mr. Armitage (uncredited)
1936	That Girl from Paris	Judge at Second Wedding (uncredited)
1936	Crack-Up	Alfred Knuxton
1936	The Plot Thickens	Robbins
1936	Bulldog Edition	Taggart
1936	Hollywood Boulevard	Dr. Inslow
1936	Back to Nature	Hotel Manager
1936	36 Hours to Kill	Man in Wash Room
1936	And Sudden Death	Defense Counsel
1936	Every Saturday Night	Mr. Dayton
1936	Sutter's Gold	Bartender
1936	Murder at Glen Athol	Reuben Marshall
1936	The Bridge of Sighs	Judge 'Teddy' Blaisdell
1935	White Lies	Hunter (uncredited)
1935	Another Face	Dr. H.J. Buler (uncredited)
1935	The Calling of Dan Matthews	District Attorney (uncredited)
1935	I Dream Too Much	Cafe Owner (uncredited)
1935	The Fire-Trap	R.A. Rawson
1935	His Night Out	Dr. Kraft
1935	O'Shaughnessy's Boy	Attorney
1935	Cappy Ricks Returns	T. Osgood Blake
1935	Page Miss Glory	Tailor (uncredited)
1935	The Perfect Tribute	Stratton (uncredited)
1935	Man on the Flying Trapeze	President Malloy
1935	Rainbow's End	Neil Gibson Sr.
1935	Born to Gamble	Strickland - Cora's Father (uncredited)
1935	Shadows of the Orient	Judge Avery
1935	Party Wire	Thomas P. Sherman
1935	Mary Jane's Pa	Chief Bailey
1935	The Nut Farm	Bob Bent, Helen's Husband
1935	Death Flies East	Wallace P. Burroughs
1935	Carnival	Mr. Lawson
1935	Bordertown	Judge Rufus Barnswell
1935	The Best Man Wins	Chief of Police
1934	Romance in Manhattan	Judge
1934	I Am a Thief	Auctioneer
1934	You Bring the Ducks	Governor
1934	You Said a Hatful!	Anderson
1934	Crimson Romance	John Fleming
1934	Take the Stand	Mr. Nevin
1934	Fifteen Wives	Dist. Atty. Kerry
1934	The Old-Fashioned Way	Mr. Livingston (uncredited)
1934	It Happened One Day	A.L. Boyd
1934	Are We Civilized?	Dr. Leonard Gear
1934	Manhattan Melodrama	Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
1934	Whirlpool	Editor
1934	The House of Rothschild	Prussian Officer
1934	Madame Spy	Pahlke
1934	Beloved	Henry Burrows
1934	The Big Shakedown	Digitalis Doctor (uncredited)
1933	The World Changes	Mr. Morley, a Banker
1933	Only Yesterday	Mr. Lane
1933	Hold the Press	Bishop
1933	The Bowery	Ivan Rummel
1933	Ladies Must Love	Herman Nussbauer
1933	One Man's Journey	John Radford
1933	Before Dawn	Chief of Detectives John F. O'Hara
1933	Tugboat Annie	Reynolds (uncredited)
1933	Emergency Call	Dr. Schwarz
1933	Storm at Daybreak	Counselor Velasch (uncredited)
1933	Tomorrow at Seven	Asa Marsden
1933	The Story of Temple Drake	District Attorney (uncredited)
1933	Bondage	Judge (uncredited)
1933	Gabriel Over the White House	German Delegate to Debt Conference (uncredited)
1933	Pick-up	The Warden
1933	Employees' Entrance	Board of Directors Member #5 (uncredited)
1932	You Said a Mouthful	Armstrong (uncredited)
1932	Call Her Savage	Doctor Treating Crosby (Uncredited)
1932	Hot Saturday	Mr. Randolph
1932	Hell's Highway	William Billings
1932	A Successful Calamity	President of the United States
1932	Two Against the World	District Attorney Howard Mills
1932	Blondie of the Follies	Doctor Attending Pa (uncredited)
1932	Madame Racketeer	J. Harrington Hagney
1932	Skyscraper Souls	Brewster's Associate (uncredited)
1932	Make Me a Star	Henshaw
1932	Attorney for the Defense	Managing Editor
1932	State's Attorney	Mr. Ulrich
1932	The Woman in Room 13
1932	When a Feller Needs a Friend	Doctor
1932	Symphony of Six Million	Conferring Doctor
1932	The World and the Flesh	Banker
1932	The Famous Ferguson Case	Mr. Brooks
1932	It's Tough to Be Famous	S.J. Boynton
1932	The Heart of New York	Otto
1932	Shopworn	Judge Forbes
1932	The Impatient Maiden	Dr. Wilcox
1932	The Man Who Played God	Appleby - the Lip Reader
1932	The Menace	Dr. Horgenson
1932	High Pressure	Mr. Hackett
1932	The Woman from Monte Carlo	Dr. Rabeouf
1931	Sooky	Krausmyer
1931	Way Back Home	Wobbling Duffy
1931	Men in Her Life	Blake
1931	The Yellow Ticket	British Embassy Butler
1931	Wicked	Judge Edwin Luther
1931	Five Star Final	Bernard Hinchecliffe
1931	Sidewalks of New York	Judge
1931	The Road to Reno	Mr. Ash
1931	Huckleberry Finn	The King
1931	The Bargain	G.T. Warren
1931	Big Business Girl	Walter T. Morley
1931	Quick Millions	Police Detective Capp (uncredited)
1931	Misbehaving Ladies	Mayor Twitchell
1931	The Finger Points	Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler
1931	Inspiration	M. Vignaud
1931	Helping Grandma	Mr. Pennypacker
1930	The Right to Love	William Kellogg
1930	Abraham Lincoln	Secretary of War Stanton
1930	The Virtuous Sin	Ivanoff
1930	Du Barry, Woman of Passion	Bit role
1930	Liliom	Stefen Kadar
1930	Man Trouble	Eddie
1930	Conspiracy	Tourist Husband (uncredited)
1930	Our Blushing Brides	Floorwalker (uncredited)
1930	Wild Company	Prosecuting Attorney
1930	The Texan	Abner Thacker
1930	Street of Chance	Bartender (uncredited)
1929	Half Way to Heaven	Circus Manager
1929	It's a Great Life	Bit Role
1929	Marianne	Major Russart (uncredited)
1929	Smiling Irish Eyes	Max North
1929	Not Quite Decent	Canfield
1929	True Heaven	German General
1928	Romance of the Underworld	Champagne Joe
1928	The Valley Of Hunted Men	Dan Phillips
1928	The Heart of Broadway	Dave Richards
1926	The Last Alarm
1926	Perils of the Coast Guard	Carlton Aldridge
1925	The Sporting Chance

Directing, Writing & Producing

1927	Code of the Cow Country	Director
1927	Race Wild	Director
1927	When Seconds Count	Director
1926	The Call of the Klondike	Director
1926	The Last Alarm	Director
1926	Somebody's Mother	Director, Writer
1926	Perils of the Coast Guard	Director
1926	The Midnight Limited	Director
1925	Borrowed Finery	Director
1925	The Sporting Chance	Director
1925	The Thoroughbred	Director
1924	The Trail of the Law	Director
1924	The Heart Bandit	Director
1923	In Search of a Thrill	Director
1923	The Social Code	Director
1923	The Lion's Mouse	Director
1922	Bulldog Drummond	Director
1922	The Wolf's Fangs	Director, Producer
1922	The Man Who Paid	Director
1921	Ten Nights in a Bar Room	Director
1919	The Steel King	Director, Producer
1919	Me and Captain Kidd	Director, Producer
1919	The Oakdale Affair	Director, Producer
1919	Bringing Up Betty	Director
1919	Phil-for-Short	Director, Producer
1919	An Amateur Widow	Director
1919	The Little Intruder	Director
1919	Mandarin's Gold	Director
1919	The Rough Neck	Director
1919	Auction of Souls	Director
1918	The Grouch	Director
1918	Tinsel	Director
1918	The Turn of a Card	Director
1917	A Man's Man	Director
1917	The Price of Her Soul	Director
1917	The Hidden Children	Director, Writer
1916	Fires of Conscience	Director
1916	The Man from Bitter Roots	Director, Writer
1916	The Battle of Hearts	Director, Writer, Producer
1915	A Soldier's Oath	Director, Writer
1915	The Little Gypsy	Director
1915	Peer Gynt	Director, Writer
1915	Kilmeny	Director
1915	The Rug Maker's Daughter	Director
1915	The Wild Olive	Director
1915	Snobs	Director
1915	After Five	Director
1914	Cameo Kirby	Director
1914	The Ghost Breaker	Director, Writer
1914	The Circus Man	Director
1914	Ready Money	Director
1914	The Making of Bobby Burnit	Director
1914	The Last Volunteer	Director
1914	The Call of the North	Director
1914	The Man on the Box	Director
1914	The Only Son	Director
1914	The Master Mind	Director
1914	Brewster's Millions	Director
1914	A Leech of Industry	Director
1914	The Squaw Man	Writer, Director
1914	In the Mesh of Her Hair	Director
1913	The Bells	Director
1912	The Passer-by	Director
1912	Thirty Days at Hard Labor	Director
1911	The Awakening of John Bond	Director
1911	Aida	Director

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