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