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