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Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 β 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. He spent eleven years on the stage on Broadway then joined the Edison Manufacturing Company. Apfel first directed for Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1911β12, 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
all 157
Movies 157
Director 31
Angel of Mercy (1939)
Shadows of the Orient (1937)
The Toast of New York (1937)
Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
Trouble in Morocco (1937)
We Who Are About to Die (1937)
That Girl from Paris (1936)
Crack-Up (1936)
The Plot Thickens (1936)
Bulldog Edition (1936)
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Back to Nature (1936)
36 Hours to Kill (1936)
And Sudden Death (1936)
Every Saturday Night (1936)
Sutter's Gold (1936)
Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
The Bridge of Sighs (1936)
Another Face (1935)
The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
I Dream Too Much (1935)
The Fire-Trap (1935)
His Night Out (1935)
O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
Cappy Ricks Returns (1935)
Page Miss Glory (1935)
The Perfect Tribute (1935)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
Rainbow's End (1935)
Born to Gamble (1935)
Mary Jane's Pa (1935)
Party Wire (1935)
The Nut Farm (1935)
Death Flies East (1935)
Carnival (1935)
Bordertown (1935)
The Best Man Wins (1935)
Romance in Manhattan (1935)
You Bring the Ducks (1934)
I Am a Thief (1934)
You Said a Hatful! (1934)
Crimson Romance (1934)
Take the Stand (1934)
Fifteen Wives (1934)
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
It Happened One Day (1934)
Are We Civilized? (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Whirlpool (1934)
Madame Spy (1934)
Beloved (1934)
The Big Shakedown (1934)
Only Yesterday (1933)
Hold the Press (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
One Man's Journey (1933)
Before Dawn (1933)
Emergency Call (1933)
Storm at Daybreak (1933)
Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Bondage (1933)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Pick-up (1933)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
Call Her Savage (1932)
You Said a Mouthful (1932)
Hot Saturday (1932)
Hell's Highway (1932)
A Successful Calamity (1932)
Two Against the World (1932)
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Madame Racketeer (1932)
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Make Me a Star (1932)
Attorney for the Defense (1932)
State's Attorney (1932)
The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932)
Symphony of Six Million (1932)
The World and the Flesh (1932)
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
The Heart of New York (1932)
Shopworn (1932)
The Impatient Maiden (1932)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Menace (1932)
High Pressure (1932)
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
Sooky (1931)
Way Back Home (1931)
Men in Her Life (1931)
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Wicked (1931)
Five Star Final (1931)
Sidewalks of New York (1931)
The Road to Reno (1931)
Huckleberry Finn (1931)
The Bargain (1931)
Big Business Girl (1931)
Quick Millions (1931)
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
The Finger Points (1931)
Inspiration (1931)
Helping Grandma (1931)
The Right to Love (1930)
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
The Virtuous Sin (1930)
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
Liliom (1930)
Man Trouble (1930)
Conspiracy (1930)
Our Blushing Brides (1930)
Wild Company (1930)
The Texan (1930)
Street of Chance (1930)
Half Way to Heaven (1929)
It's a Great Life (1929)
Marianne (1929)
Hurdy Gurdy (1929)
True Heaven (1929)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
The Valley Of Hunted Men (1928)
Code of the Cow Country (1927)
Race Wild (1927)
The Call of the Klondike (1926)
The Last Alarm (1926)
The Trail of the Law (1924)
In Search of a Thrill (1923)
The Social Code (1923)
Bulldog Drummond (1922)
The Man Who Paid (1922)
The Oakdale Affair (1919)
Bringing Up Betty (1919)
Phil-for-Short (1919)
Ravished Armenia (1919)
Tinsel (1918)
Fires of Conscience (1916)
Peer Gynt (1915)
Kilmeny (1915)
The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915)
The Ghost Breaker (1914)
The Circus Man (1914)
Ready Money (1914)
The Making of Bobby Burnit (1914)
The Last Volunteer (1914)
The Call of the North (1914)
Brewster's Millions (1914)
The Squaw Man (1914)
The Bells (1913)
The Passer-by (1912)
Thirty Days at Hard Labor (1912)
Aida (1911)
Not Quite Decent
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GenderMale
Birthday1878-01-16
Deathday1938-03-21 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceCleveland, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsOscar C. Apfel
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