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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.
Filmography Angel of Mercy
1939
Red Cross Representative (uncredited)
Details The Toast of New York
1937
Wallack (uncredited)
Details Fifty Roads to Town
1937
Smorgen
Details The Soldier and the Lady
1937
Tsar's General (Uncredited)
Details Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
Lambert
Details Trouble in Morocco
1937
DeRouget
Details We Who Are About to Die
1937
Mr. Armitage (uncredited)
Details That Girl from Paris
1936
Judge at Second Wedding (uncredited)
Details The Plot Thickens
1936
H. G. Robbins
Details Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Dr. Inslow
Details Back to Nature
1936
Hotel Manager
Details 36 Hours to Kill
1936
Man in Wash Room
Details And Sudden Death
1936
Defense Counsel
Details Every Saturday Night
1936
Mr. Dayton
Details Murder at Glen Athol
1936
Reuben Marshall
Details The Bridge of Sighs
1936
Judge 'Teddy' Blaisdell
Details Another Face
1935
Dr. H.J. Buler (uncredited)
Details The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935
District Attorney (uncredited)
Details I Dream Too Much
1935
Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Details The Fire-Trap
1935
R.A. Rawson
Details O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935
Attorney
Details Cappy Ricks Returns
1935
T. Osgood Blake
Details Page Miss Glory
1935
Tailor (uncredited)
Details The Perfect Tribute
1935
Stratton (uncredited)
Details Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
President Malloy
Details Rainbow's End
1935
Neil Gibson Sr.
Details Born to Gamble
1935
Strickland - Cora's Father (uncredited)
Details Shadows of the Orient
1935
Judge Avery
Details Party Wire
1935
Thomas P. Sherman
Details Mary Jane's Pa
1935
Chief Bailey
Details The Nut Farm
1935
Bob Bent, Helen's Husband
Details Death Flies East
1935
Wallace P. Burroughs
Details Bordertown
1935
Judge Rufus Barnswell
Details The Best Man Wins
1935
Chief of Police
Details Romance in Manhattan
1935
Judge
Details You Bring the Ducks
1934
Governor
Details You Said a Hatful!
1934
Anderson
Details Crimson Romance
1934
John Fleming
Details Take the Stand
1934
Mr. Nevin
Details Fifteen Wives
1934
Dist. Atty. Kerry
Details The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
Mr. Livingston (uncredited)
Details It Happened One Day
1934
A.L. Boyd
Details Are We Civilized?
1934
Dr. Leonard Gear
Details Manhattan Melodrama
1934
Speaker of Assembly (uncredited)
Details Whirlpool
1934
Newspaper Editor
Details The House of Rothschild
1934
Prussian Officer
Details The Big Shakedown
1934
Digitalis Doctor (uncredited)
Details One Man's Journey
1933
John Radford
Details Before Dawn
1933
Chief of Detectives John F. O'Hara
Details Emergency Call
1933
Dr. Schwarz
Details Storm at Daybreak
1933
Counselor Velasch (uncredited)
Details Tomorrow at Seven
1933
Asa Marsden
Details The Story of Temple Drake
1933
District Attorney (uncredited)
Details Bondage
1933
Judge (uncredited)
Details Gabriel Over the White House
1933
German Delegate to Debt Conference (uncredited)
Details Employees' Entrance
1933
Board of Directors Member #5 (uncredited)
Details Call Her Savage
1932
Doctor Treating Crosby (Uncredited)
Details You Said a Mouthful
1932
Armstrong (uncredited)
Details Hot Saturday
1932
Mr. Randolph
Details Hell's Highway
1932
William Billings
Details A Successful Calamity
1932
President of the United States
Details Two Against the World
1932
District Attorney Howard Mills
Details Blondie of the Follies
1932
Doctor Attending Pa (uncredited)
Details Madame Racketeer
1932
J. Harrington Hagney
Details Skyscraper Souls
1932
Brewster's Associate (uncredited)
Details Attorney for the Defense
1932
Managing Editor
Details State's Attorney
1932
Mr. Ulrich
Details The Woman in Room 13
1932
Character TBA
Details When a Feller Needs a Friend
1932
Doctor
Details Symphony of Six Million
1932
Conferring Doctor
Details The World and the Flesh
1932
Banker
Details The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
Mr. Brooks
Details It's Tough to Be Famous
1932
S.J. Boynton
Details The Heart of New York
1932
Otto
Details The Impatient Maiden
1932
Dr. Wilcox
Details The Man Who Played God
1932
Appleby - the Lip Reader
Details The Menace
1932
Dr. Horgenson
Details High Pressure
1932
Mr. Hackett
Details The Woman from Monte Carlo
1932
Dr. Rabeouf
Details Way Back Home
1931
Wobbling Duffy
Details The Yellow Ticket
1931
British Embassy Butler
Details Wicked
1931
Judge Edwin Luther
Details Five Star Final
1931
Bernard Hinchecliffe
Details Sidewalks of New York
1931
Judge
Details The Road to Reno
1931
Mr. Ash
Details Huckleberry Finn
1931
The King
Details Big Business Girl
1931
Walter T. Morley
Details Quick Millions
1931
Police Detective Capp (uncredited)
Details Misbehaving Ladies
1931
Mayor Twitchell
Details The Finger Points
1931
Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler
Details Helping Grandma
1931
Mr. Pennypacker
Details The Right to Love
1930
William Kellogg
Details Abraham Lincoln
1930
Secretary of War Stanton
Details The Virtuous Sin
1930
Ivanoff
Details Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1930
Bit role
Details Conspiracy
1930
Tourist Husband (uncredited)
Details Our Blushing Brides
1930
Floorwalker (uncredited)
Details Wild Company
1930
Prosecuting Attorney
Details Street of Chance
1930
Bartender (uncredited)
Details Half Way to Heaven
1929
Circus Manager
Details It's a Great Life
1929
Bit Role
Details Marianne
1929
Major Russart (uncredited)
Details Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
Max North
Details Not Quite Decent
1929
Canfield
Details True Heaven
1929
German General
Details Romance of the Underworld
1928
Champagne Joe
Details The Valley Of Hunted Men
1928
Dan Phillips
Details The Last Alarm
1926
Character TBA
Details