Oscar Apfel
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: January 16, 1878
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Known For
The Impatient Maiden
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
The Nut Farm
Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of scam artists who promise to make her a star. Helen's brother Willie tries to prevent her and Bob from losing all their money to the scam artists.
Party Wire
When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.
Romance in Manhattan
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
Quick Millions
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
The Old-Fashioned Way
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
The Man Who Played God
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
Manhattan Melodrama
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Filmography
as Red Cross Representative (uncredited)
as Wallack (uncredited)
as Smorgen
as Tsar's General (Uncredited)
as Lambert
as DeRouget
as Mr. Armitage (uncredited)
as Judge at Second Wedding (uncredited)
as Alfred Knuxton
as Robbins
as Taggart
as Dr. Inslow
as Hotel Manager
as Man in Wash Room
as Defense Counsel
as Mr. Dayton
as Bartender
as Reuben Marshall
as Judge 'Teddy' Blaisdell
as Hunter (uncredited)
as Dr. H.J. Buler (uncredited)
as District Attorney (uncredited)
as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
as Dr. Kraft
as Attorney
as Tailor (uncredited)
as Stratton (uncredited)
as President Malloy
as Neil Gibson Sr.
as Strickland - Cora's Father (uncredited)
as Judge Avery
as Thomas P. Sherman
as Chief Bailey
as Bob Bent, Helen's Husband
as Wallace P. Burroughs
as Mr. Lawson
as Judge Rufus Barnswell
as Chief of Police
as Judge
as Auctioneer
as Anderson
as John Fleming
as Mr. Nevin
as Dist. Atty. Kerry
as Mr. Livingston (uncredited)
as A.L. Boyd
as Dr. Leonard Gear
as Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
as Editor
as Prussian Officer
as Pahlke
as Henry Burrows
as Digitalis Doctor (uncredited)
as Mr. Morley, a Banker
as Mr. Lane
as Bishop
as Ivan Rummel
as Herman Nussbauer
as John Radford
as Chief of Detectives John F. O'Hara
as Dr. Schwarz
as Counselor Velasch (uncredited)
as Asa Marsden
as District Attorney (uncredited)
as Judge (uncredited)
as German Delegate to Debt Conference (uncredited)
as The Warden
as Board of Directors Member #5 (uncredited)
as Armstrong (uncredited)
as Doctor Treating Crosby (Uncredited)
as Mr. Randolph
as William Billings
as President of the United States
as District Attorney Howard Mills
as Doctor Attending Pa (uncredited)
as J. Harrington Hagney
as Brewster's Associate (uncredited)
as Henshaw
as Managing Editor
as Mr. Ulrich
as Doctor
as Conferring Doctor
as Banker
as Mr. Brooks
as S.J. Boynton
as Otto
as Forbes
as Dr. Wilcox
as Appleby - the Lip Reader
as Dr. Horgenson
as Mr. Hackett
as Dr. Rabeouf
as Krausmyer
as Wobbling Duffy
as Blake
as British Embassy Butler
as Judge Edwin Luther
as Bernard Hinchecliffe
as Judge
as Mr. Ash
as The King
as G.T. Warren
as Walter T. Morley
as Police Detective Capp (uncredited)
as Mayor Twitchell
as Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler
as M. Vignaud
as Mr. Pennypacker
as William Kellogg
as Secretary of War Stanton
as Ivanoff
as Bit role
as Stefen Kadar
as Eddie
as Tourist Husband (uncredited)
as Floorwalker (uncredited)
as Prosecuting Attorney
as Abner Thacker
as Bartender (uncredited)
as Circus Manager
as Bit Role
as Major Russart (uncredited)
as Max North
as Canfield
as German General
as Champagne Joe
as Dan Phillips
as Carlton Aldridge