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