Richard Oswald

Known for: Directing
Born: November 5, 1880, Vienna, Austria
Died: September 11, 1963
Movies: 110

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.1

Different from the Others

1919

4.7

The Eternal Jew

1940

5.6

Eerie Tales

1919

6.1

Alraune

1930

4.8

Cagliostro

1929

6.9

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1929

5.1

Lucrezia Borgia

1922

6.0

Earth Spirit

1923

4.2

A Song Goes Round the World

1933

5.6

Dreyfus

1930

Filmography

1940	The Eternal Jew	Self (archive footage)
1919	Eerie Tales
1916	Tales of Hoffmann

Directing, Writing & Producing

1949	The Lovable Cheat	Director, Producer
1942	Isle of Missing Men	Director
1941	I Was a Criminal	Director
1938	Tempête sur l'Asie	Director
1936	Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben	Director, Writer
1934	My Song Goes Round the World	Director, Producer
1934	Bleeke Bet	Director
1934	When You're Young, the World Belongs to You	Director
1933	Adventure on the Lido	Director
1933	A Song Goes Round the World	Director, Producer
1933	The Flower of Hawaii	Director
1933	Crook's Honor	Director
1932	Countess Mariza	Director
1932	The Living Dead	Director, Writer, Producer
1931	The Captain from Köpenick	Director, Producer
1931	Poor as a Church Mouse	Director
1931	Victoria and Her Hussar	Director
1931	Schubert's Dream of Spring	Director, Producer
1931	1914: The Last Days Before the War	Director, Producer
1930	The Tender Relatives	Director, Producer
1930	Dreyfus	Director, Producer
1930	Vienna, City of Song	Producer, Director
1930	Alraune	Director, Producer
1929	The Mistress and Her Servant	Director
1929	Ehe in Not	Director
1929	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Director
1929	Cagliostro	Director
1929	Spring Awakening	Director, Producer
1928	Villa Falconieri	Director
1928	The Green Alley	Director
1927	The Fugitive Lover	Producer, Director
1927	Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!	Director
1927	Radio Magic	Director
1927	Assassination	Director
1927	Agitated Woman	Director
1927	Lützow's Wild Hunt	Producer, Director
1927	A Crazy Night	Director, Writer, Producer
1926	When I Came Back	Director
1926	Vorderhaus und Hinterhaus	Director, Writer
1926	The White Horse Inn	Director
1926	Should We Be Silent?	Director, Writer
1925	Halbseide	Director
1925	Die Frau von vierzig Jahren	Director
1925	Rags and Silk	Director, Producer
1924	Don Carlos und Elisabeth	Director, Producer, Writer
1923	Earth Spirit	Producer
1922	Lucrezia Borgia	Director, Writer
1922	Die Dame und ihr Friseur	Producer
1922	Dr. Gyllenborgs doppeltes Gesicht	Producer
1922	Das Logierhaus für Gentleman	Producer
1921	The Golden Plague	Producer, Director
1921	Lady Hamilton	Director, Writer
1921	The House in Dragon Street	Director
1921	Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore	Writer, Director
1920	Das vierte Gebot	Director
1920	Manolescu's Memoirs	Director, Screenplay
1920	Kurfürstendamm	Writer, Director
1920	Ewiger Strom	Producer
1920	Die Nacht auf Goldenhall	Producer
1920	The Merry-Go-Round	Director, Screenplay
1920	Figures of the Night	Director, Screenplay
1919	Eerie Tales	Producer, Director
1919	Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen	Director, Screenplay
1919	The Arc	Director, Screenplay
1919	Prostitution II	Writer, Director
1919	Different from the Others	Director, Writer, Producer
1919	Peer Gynt - Part 1: Peer Gynt’s Youth	Producer
1919	Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod	Producer
1919	Around the World in 80 Days	Writer, Director
1919	Prostitution	Writer, Director
1918	Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby	Director, Writer
1918	The Story of Dida Ibsen	Producer, Writer, Director
1918	Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter	Writer, Director
1918	Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert	Director, Writer
1918	Diary of a Lost Woman	Director, Writer
1918	Das Dreimäderlhaus	Writer, Director
1918	Der lebende Leichnam	Director, Writer
1918	Es werde Licht! 3. Teil	Director, Writer
1918	Rennfieber	Director
1918	Der ewige Zweifel	Director
1918	Es werde Licht! 2. Teil	Director, Writer
1918	The Way Out	Director, Writer, Producer
1917	Die Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors	Director
1917	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Director, Producer, Screenplay
1917	Es werde Licht!	Writer, Director
1917	A Night of Horror	Director
1916	Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil	Director, Screenplay
1916	Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil	Director, Writer
1916	The Uncanny House	Producer, Director, Writer
1916	Revenge of the Dead	Writer, Director
1916	Circus Blood	Writer, Producer, Director
1916	Tales of Hoffmann	Director, Writer
1916	Die silberne Kugel	Director
1915	The Sun's Revenge	Writer
1915	Dämon und Mensch	Screenplay, Director
1915	Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil - Die Sage vom Hund von Baskerville	Director, Writer
1915	Das Laster	Director, Writer
1915	Lache, Bajazzo!	Director, Writer
1915	Und wandern sollst du ruhelos …	Director, Writer
1915	Schlemihl	Screenplay, Director
1915	Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil - Das unheimliche Zimmer	Director, Writer
1914	The Silent Mill	Director, Writer
1914	A Strange Case	Writer
1914	Ivan Koschula	Writer, Director
1914	The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 2 - The Lonely House	Writer
1914	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Writer
1914	The Iron Cross	Writer, Director

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