Oscar Apfel
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.
After many years as a director, he gradually returned to acting. On March 21, 1938, Apfel died in Hollywood from a heart attack.
Filmography (135 Appearances)
Angel of Mercy
The Toast of New York
Fifty Roads to Town
The Soldier and the Lady
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Trouble in Morocco
We Who Are About to Die
That Girl from Paris
Crack-Up
The Plot Thickens
Bulldog Edition
Hollywood Boulevard
Back to Nature
36 Hours to Kill
And Sudden Death
Every Saturday Night
Sutter's Gold
Murder at Glen Athol
The Bridge of Sighs
White Lies
Another Face
The Calling of Dan Matthews
I Dream Too Much
The Fire-Trap
His Night Out
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Cappy Ricks Returns
Page Miss Glory
The Perfect Tribute
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Rainbow's End
Born to Gamble
Shadows of the Orient
Party Wire
Mary Jane's Pa
The Nut Farm
Death Flies East
Carnival
Bordertown
The Best Man Wins
Romance in Manhattan
You Bring the Ducks
I Am a Thief
You Said a Hatful!
Crimson Romance
Take the Stand
Fifteen Wives
The Old-Fashioned Way
It Happened One Day
Are We Civilized?
Manhattan Melodrama
Whirlpool
The House of Rothschild
Madame Spy
Beloved
The Big Shakedown
The World Changes
Only Yesterday
Hold the Press
The Bowery
Ladies Must Love
One Man's Journey
Before Dawn
Emergency Call
Storm at Daybreak
Tomorrow at Seven
The Story of Temple Drake
Bondage
Gabriel Over the White House
Pick-up
Employees' Entrance
You Said a Mouthful
Call Her Savage
Hot Saturday
Hell's Highway
A Successful Calamity
Two Against the World
Blondie of the Follies
Madame Racketeer
Skyscraper Souls
Make Me a Star
Attorney for the Defense
State's Attorney
The Woman in Room 13
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Symphony of Six Million
The World and the Flesh
The Famous Ferguson Case
It's Tough to Be Famous
The Heart of New York
Shopworn
The Impatient Maiden
The Man Who Played God
The Menace
High Pressure
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Sooky
Way Back Home
Men in Her Life
The Yellow Ticket
Wicked
Sidewalks of New York
Five Star Final
The Road to Reno
Huckleberry Finn
The Bargain
Big Business Girl
Quick Millions
Misbehaving Ladies
The Finger Points
Inspiration
Helping Grandma
The Right to Love
Abraham Lincoln
The Virtuous Sin
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Liliom
Man Trouble
Conspiracy
Our Blushing Brides
Wild Company
The Texan
Street of Chance
Half Way to Heaven
It's a Great Life
Marianne
Smiling Irish Eyes
Not Quite Decent
True Heaven
Romance of the Underworld
The Valley Of Hunted Men
The Heart of Broadway
The Last Alarm
Perils of the Coast Guard
The Sporting Chance