
Oscar Apfel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
135 acting credits · 66 directing credits
Acting · 135

Abraham Lincoln
1930

The Story of Temple Drake
1933

Hollywood Boulevard
1936

Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935

Manhattan Melodrama
1934

The Bowery
1933

Gabriel Over the White House
1933

The Man Who Played God
1932

One Man's Journey
1933

The Toast of New York
1937

Blondie of the Follies
1932

Inspiration
1931

Skyscraper Souls
1932

Before Dawn
1933

Marianne
1929

Whirlpool
1934

Call Her Savage
1932

Crimson Romance
1934

The Perfect Tribute
1935

Only Yesterday
1933

We Who Are About to Die
1937

The Soldier and the Lady
1937

Carnival
1935

The World Changes
1933

The Big Shakedown
1934

Liliom
1930

Conspiracy
1930

I Am a Thief
1934

The House of Rothschild
1934

Madame Racketeer
1932

Hot Saturday
1932

The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935

Man Trouble
1930

The Best Man Wins
1935

Wicked
1931

Take the Stand
1934

You Said a Mouthful
1932

That Girl from Paris
1936

Sooky
1931

Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937

The Impatient Maiden
1932

Huckleberry Finn
1931

Five Star Final
1931

Romance in Manhattan
1935

It's a Great Life
1929

I Dream Too Much
1935

Mary Jane's Pa
1935

And Sudden Death
1936

State's Attorney
1932

Shopworn
1932

Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1930

Our Blushing Brides
1930

Back to Nature
1936

Madame Spy
1934

A Successful Calamity
1932

The Yellow Ticket
1931

Angel of Mercy
1939

Party Wire
1935

The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932

Pick-up
1933

His Night Out
1935

Another Face
1935

Trouble in Morocco
1937

White Lies
1935

Bordertown
1935

Quick Millions
1931

36 Hours to Kill
1936

Sutter's Gold
1936

Sidewalks of New York
1931

Make Me a Star
1932

High Pressure
1932

Storm at Daybreak
1933

Men in Her Life
1931

Bulldog Edition
1936

Beloved
1934

Big Business Girl
1931

The Nut Farm
1935

O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935

The Plot Thickens
1936

Way Back Home
1931

Street of Chance
1930

The Old-Fashioned Way
1934

Page Miss Glory
1935

Fifteen Wives
1934

Emergency Call
1933

The Bridge of Sighs
1936

The Road to Reno
1931

Hell's Highway
1932

Misbehaving Ladies
1931

Attorney for the Defense
1932

Fifty Roads to Town
1937

Employees' Entrance
1933

Symphony of Six Million
1932

Are We Civilized?
1934

The World and the Flesh
1932

Romance of the Underworld
1928

The Virtuous Sin
1930
The Fire-Trap
1935

The Menace
1932

Shadows of the Orient
1935

Helping Grandma
1931

The Bargain
1931

The Famous Ferguson Case
1932

Bondage
1933

The Texan
1930

Crack-Up
1936

The Finger Points
1931
Cappy Ricks Returns
1935

Hold the Press
1933

When a Feller Needs a Friend
1932

The Woman in Room 13
1932
The Last Alarm
1926

The Sporting Chance
1925

Rainbow's End
1935

Two Against the World
1932

Tomorrow at Seven
1933

Death Flies East
1935

Wild Company
1930
You Bring the Ducks
1934

Murder at Glen Athol
1936

Ladies Must Love
1933

True Heaven
1929

Half Way to Heaven
1929

Not Quite Decent
1929

Smiling Irish Eyes
1929

It Happened One Day
1934

It's Tough to Be Famous
1932

The Heart of New York
1932

The Right to Love
1930

Every Saturday Night
1936

You Said a Hatful!
1934
The Valley Of Hunted Men
1928

Perils of the Coast Guard
1926

Born to Gamble
1935

The Heart of Broadway
1928
Directing · 66

The Squaw Man
1914

The Ghost Breaker
1914
Borrowed Finery
1925
Aida
1911
The Last Volunteer
1914

Mandarin's Gold
1919

After Five
1915

Brewster's Millions
1914
The Making of Bobby Burnit
1914

The Awakening of John Bond
1911

Cameo Kirby
1914

The Master Mind
1914

The Man Who Paid
1922

The Call of the Klondike
1926

Ready Money
1914

In Search of a Thrill
1923
The Last Alarm
1926

Phil-for-Short
1919

The Sporting Chance
1925
An Amateur Widow
1919

Bulldog Drummond
1922

Thirty Days at Hard Labor
1912

Kilmeny
1915

The Social Code
1923

The Call of the North
1914

The Only Son
1914

The Battle of Hearts
1916

Fires of Conscience
1916

Peer Gynt
1915

The Trail of the Law
1924
The Man on the Box
1914

A Soldier's Oath
1915

The Rug Maker's Daughter
1915

The Oakdale Affair
1919

The Bells
1913

The Circus Man
1914

The Heart Bandit
1924

Bringing Up Betty
1919

A Man's Man
1917
Tinsel
1918

The Passer-by
1912
The Steel King
1919

When Seconds Count
1927

Code of the Cow Country
1927

Snobs
1915

The Midnight Limited
1926

Ten Nights in a Bar Room
1921

Perils of the Coast Guard
1926

The Hidden Children
1917

The Wild Olive
1915

Somebody's Mother
1926
In the Mesh of Her Hair
1914

The Rough Neck
1919

The Grouch
1918

A Leech of Industry
1914

The Price of Her Soul
1917

The Little Gypsy
1915

Auction of Souls
1919

The Thoroughbred
1925

The Little Intruder
1919

Me and Captain Kidd
1919

The Lion's Mouse
1923

The Wolf's Fangs
1922

The Turn of a Card
1918
Race Wild
1927

The Man from Bitter Roots
1916