Oscar Apfel
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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.
Movies
Angel of Mercy
Red Cross Representative (uncredited)
The Toast of New York
Wallack (uncredited)
Fifty Roads to Town
Smorgen
The Soldier and the Lady
Tsar's General (Uncredited)
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Lambert
Trouble in Morocco
DeRouget
We Who Are About to Die
Mr. Armitage (uncredited)
That Girl from Paris
Judge at Second Wedding (uncredited)
Crack-Up
Alfred Knuxton
The Plot Thickens
Robbins
Bulldog Edition
Taggart
Hollywood Boulevard
Dr. Inslow
Back to Nature
Hotel Manager
36 Hours to Kill
Man in Wash Room
And Sudden Death
Defense Counsel
Every Saturday Night
Mr. Dayton
Sutter's Gold
Bartender
Murder at Glen Athol
Reuben Marshall
The Bridge of Sighs
Judge 'Teddy' Blaisdell
White Lies
Hunter (uncredited)
Another Face
Dr. H.J. Buler (uncredited)
The Calling of Dan Matthews
District Attorney (uncredited)
I Dream Too Much
Cafe Owner (uncredited)
The Fire-Trap
R.A. Rawson
His Night Out
Dr. Kraft
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Attorney
Cappy Ricks Returns
T. Osgood Blake
Page Miss Glory
Tailor (uncredited)
The Perfect Tribute
Stratton (uncredited)
Man on the Flying Trapeze
President Malloy
Rainbow's End
Neil Gibson Sr.
Born to Gamble
Strickland - Cora's Father (uncredited)
Shadows of the Orient
Judge Avery
Party Wire
Thomas P. Sherman
Mary Jane's Pa
Chief Bailey
The Nut Farm
Bob Bent, Helen's Husband
Death Flies East
Wallace P. Burroughs
Carnival
Mr. Lawson
Bordertown
Judge Rufus Barnswell
The Best Man Wins
Chief of Police
Romance in Manhattan
Judge
I Am a Thief
Auctioneer
You Bring the Ducks
Governor
You Said a Hatful!
Anderson
Crimson Romance
John Fleming
Take the Stand
Mr. Nevin
Fifteen Wives
Dist. Atty. Kerry
The Old-Fashioned Way
Mr. Livingston (uncredited)
It Happened One Day
A.L. Boyd
Are We Civilized?
Dr. Leonard Gear
Manhattan Melodrama
Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Whirlpool
Editor
The House of Rothschild
Prussian Officer
Madame Spy
Pahlke
Beloved
Henry Burrows
The Big Shakedown
Digitalis Doctor (uncredited)
The World Changes
Mr. Morley, a Banker
Only Yesterday
Mr. Lane
Hold the Press
Bishop
The Bowery
Ivan Rummel
Ladies Must Love
Herman Nussbauer
One Man's Journey
John Radford
Before Dawn
Chief of Detectives John F. O'Hara
Emergency Call
Dr. Schwarz
Storm at Daybreak
Counselor Velasch (uncredited)
Tomorrow at Seven
Asa Marsden
The Story of Temple Drake
District Attorney (uncredited)
Bondage
Judge (uncredited)
Gabriel Over the White House
German Delegate to Debt Conference (uncredited)
Pick-up
The Warden
Employees' Entrance
Board of Directors Member #5 (uncredited)
You Said a Mouthful
Armstrong (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
Doctor Treating Crosby (Uncredited)
Hot Saturday
Mr. Randolph
Hell's Highway
William Billings
A Successful Calamity
President of the United States
Two Against the World
District Attorney Howard Mills
Blondie of the Follies
Doctor Attending Pa (uncredited)
Madame Racketeer
J. Harrington Hagney
Skyscraper Souls
Brewster's Associate (uncredited)
Make Me a Star
Henshaw
Attorney for the Defense
Managing Editor
State's Attorney
Mr. Ulrich
The Woman in Room 13
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Doctor
Symphony of Six Million
Conferring Doctor
The World and the Flesh
Banker
The Famous Ferguson Case
Mr. Brooks
It's Tough to Be Famous
S.J. Boynton
The Heart of New York
Otto
Shopworn
Forbes
The Impatient Maiden
Dr. Wilcox
The Man Who Played God
Appleby - the Lip Reader
The Menace
Dr. Horgenson
High Pressure
Mr. Hackett
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Dr. Rabeouf
Sooky
Krausmyer
Way Back Home
Wobbling Duffy
Men in Her Life
Blake
The Yellow Ticket
British Embassy Butler
Wicked
Judge Edwin Luther
Five Star Final
Bernard Hinchecliffe
Sidewalks of New York
Judge
The Road to Reno
Mr. Ash
Huckleberry Finn
The King
The Bargain
G.T. Warren
Big Business Girl
Walter T. Morley
Quick Millions
Police Detective Capp (uncredited)
Misbehaving Ladies
Mayor Twitchell
The Finger Points
Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler
Inspiration
M. Vignaud
Helping Grandma
Mr. Pennypacker
The Right to Love
William Kellogg
Abraham Lincoln
Secretary of War Stanton
The Virtuous Sin
Ivanoff
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Bit role
Liliom
Stefen Kadar
Man Trouble
Eddie
Conspiracy
Tourist Husband (uncredited)
Our Blushing Brides
Floorwalker (uncredited)
Wild Company
Prosecuting Attorney
The Texan
Abner Thacker
Street of Chance
Bartender (uncredited)
Half Way to Heaven
Circus Manager
It's a Great Life
Bit Role
Marianne
Major Russart (uncredited)
Smiling Irish Eyes
Max North
Not Quite Decent
Canfield
True Heaven
German General
Romance of the Underworld
Champagne Joe
The Valley Of Hunted Men
Dan Phillips
The Last Alarm
Perils of the Coast Guard
Carlton Aldridge
The Sporting Chance