Richard Oswald
Born: 1880-11-05 in Vienna, Austria
Died: 1963-09-11
Known For: Directing
Biography
Richard Oswald was an Austrian director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 100 feature films from 1914 to 1951. Among them the classics "Nachtgestalten" (1920), "Unheimliche Geschichten" (1919/1932), "Die Prostitution 1-2" (1919) and "Alraune" (1930). Being Jewish, Oswald was forced to flee Nazi Germany, first for occupied France and later emigrating to the United States.
Filmography
1949
- The Lovable Cheat ... (Adaptation)
1942
- Isle of Missing Men ... (Director)
1941
- I Was a Criminal ... (Director)
1940
- The Eternal Jew as Self (archive footage)
1938
- Tempête sur l'Asie ... (Director)
1936
- Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben ... (Director)
1934
- My Song Goes Round the World ... (Director)
- Bleeke Bet ... (Director)
- When You're Young, the World Belongs to You ... (Director)
1933
- Adventure on the Lido ... (Director)
- A Song Goes Round the World ... (Director)
- The Flower of Hawaii ... (Director)
- Crook's Honor ... (Director)
1932
- Countess Mariza ... (Director)
- The Living Dead ... (Writer)
1931
- Schubert's Dream of Spring ... (Director)
- The Captain from Köpenick ... (Director)
- 1914: The Last Days Before the War ... (Director)
- Victoria and Her Hussar ... (Director)
- Poor as a Church Mouse ... (Director)
1930
- Alraune ... (Director)
- Dreyfus ... (Director)
- The Tender Relatives ... (Director)
- Vienna, City of Song ... (Producer)
1929
- Cagliostro ... (Director)
- Spring Awakening ... (Director)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Director)
- The Mistress and Her Servant ... (Director)
- Ehe in Not ... (Director)
1928
- Villa Falconieri ... (Director)
- The Green Alley ... (Director)
1927
- The Transformation of Dr. Bessel ... (Producer)
- Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed! ... (Director)
- Assassination ... (Director)
- Radio Magic ... (Director)
- Lützow's Wild Hunt ... (Director)
- Agitated Woman ... (Director)
- A Crazy Night ... (Director)
1926
- Should We Be Silent? ... (Director)
- Vorderhaus und Hinterhaus ... (Director)
- The White Horse Inn ... (Director)
- When I Came Back ... (Director)
1925
- Die Frau von vierzig Jahren ... (Director)
- Rags and Silk ... (Director)
- Halbseide ... (Director)
1924
- Don Carlos und Elisabeth ... (Director)
1923
- Earth Spirit ... (Producer)
1922
- Das Logierhaus für Gentleman ... (Producer)
- Dr. Gyllenborgs doppeltes Gesicht ... (Producer)
- Lucrezia Borgia ... (Director)
- Die Dame und ihr Friseur ... (Producer)
1921
- Lady Hamilton ... (Director)
- The Golden Plague ... (Producer)
- The House in Dragon Street ... (Director)
- Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore ... (Writer)
1920
- Manolescu's Memoirs ... (Director)
- Figures of the Night ... (Director)
- The Merry-Go-Round ... (Director)
- Ewiger Strom ... (Producer)
- Das vierte Gebot ... (Director)
- Die Nacht auf Goldenhall ... (Producer)
- Kurfürstendamm ... (Director)
1919
- Eerie Tales
- Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod ... (Producer)
- Different from the Others ... (Director)
- The Arc ... (Director)
- Prostitution ... (Writer)
- Around the World in 80 Days ... (Writer)
- Prostitution II ... (Writer)
- Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend ... (Producer)
- Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen ... (Screenplay)
1918
- Rennfieber ... (Director)
- Das Dreimäderlhaus ... (Writer)
- The Story of Dida Ibsen ... (Producer)
- Es werde Licht! 3. Teil ... (Writer)
- Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert ... (Writer)
- Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter ... (Writer)
- Diary of a Lost Woman ... (Director)
- Der ewige Zweifel ... (Director)
- Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby ... (Writer)
- The Way Out ... (Director)
- Es werde Licht! 2. Teil ... (Writer)
- Der lebende Leichnam ... (Director)
1917
- A Night of Horror ... (Director)
- Die Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors ... (Director)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray ... (Director)
- Es werde Licht! ... (Writer)
1916
- Tales of Hoffmann
- Zirkusblut ... (Writer)
- Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil ... (Director)
- The Uncanny House ... (Producer)
- Revenge of the Dead ... (Director)
- Die silberne Kugel ... (Director)
- Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil ... (Director)
1915
- Das Laster ... (Director)
- The Sun's Revenge ... (Writer)
- Lache, Bajazzo! ... (Director)
- Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil - Das unheimliche Zimmer ... (Writer)
- Schlemihl ... (Screenplay)
- Dämon und Mensch ... (Screenplay)
- Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil - Die Sage vom Hund von Baskerville ... (Writer)
- Und wandern sollst du ruhelos … ... (Director)
1914
- A Strange Case ... (Writer)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Writer)
- Ivan Koschula ... (Writer)
- The Silent Mill ... (Writer)
- Das eiserne Kreuz ... (Director)
- Der Hund von Baskerville, 2. Teil - Das einsame Haus ... (Writer)