Richard Oswald

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1880-11-05 (83 years old)

Deathday

1963-09-11

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Richard Oswald

Biography

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.

Acting

Production

1930

Alraune

as Director

1919

Eerie Tales

as Director

1919

Eerie Tales

as Producer

1932

The Living Dead

as Director

1932

1932

The Living Dead

as Producer

1949

1949

The Lovable Cheat

as Adaptation

1930

1918

1923

Earth Spirit

as Producer

1931

1914

as Director

1916

1922

Lucrezia Borgia

as Director

1930

Dreyfus

as Director

1933

1926

1933

Crook's Honor

as Director

1942

1930

1933

1914

1914

1914

Ivan Koschula

as Writer

1914

Ivan Koschula

as Director

1920

1920

The Merry-Go-Round

as Screenplay

1929

Cagliostro

as Director

1919

The Arc

as Director

1931

1914

as Producer

1916

Zirkusblut

as Writer

1916

Zirkusblut

as Director

1916

Zirkusblut

as Producer

1925

Rags and Silk

as Director

1925

1925

Rags and Silk

as Producer

1920

Ewiger Strom

as Producer

1917

1919

Prostitution

as Director

1919

Prostitution

as Writer

1915

1915

Lache, Bajazzo!

as Director

1928

Villa Falconieri

as Director

1930

1931

1942

Isle of Missing Men

as Adaptation

1929

Ehe in Not

as Director

1938

1925

Halbseide

as Director

1920

Das vierte Gebot

as Director

1930

Alraune

as Producer

1941

I Was a Criminal

as Director

1928

The Green Alley

as Director

1921

1921

1934

Bleeke Bet

as Director

1914

1921

Lady Hamilton

as Director

1916

1916

1920

1916

1930

Dreyfus

as Producer

1930

1916

1920

Kurfürstendamm

as Director

1920

1919

Prostitution II

as Director

1919

1927

Assassination

as Director

1929

Spring Awakening

as Director

1915

1927

Radio Magic

as Director

1927

A Crazy Night

as Director

1926

When I Came Back

as Director

1920

1915

Schlemihl

as Director

1915

Schlemihl

as Screenplay

1927

1927

1921

Lady Hamilton

as Writer

1919

Eerie Tales

as Story

1919

The Arc

as Screenplay

1920

Manolescu's Memoirs

as Screenplay

1922

1927

A Crazy Night

as Writer

1927

Agitated Woman

as Director

1915

1929

Spring Awakening

as Producer

1932

Countess Mariza

as Director

1927

A Crazy Night

as Producer

1917

1917

Es werde Licht!

as Director

1918

Rennfieber

as Director

1918

1914

The Silent Mill

as Director

1914

1916

1916

1915

Das Laster

as Director

1915

Das Laster

as Writer

1926

1915

1915

Dämon und Mensch

as Screenplay

1929

Cagliostro

as Executive Producer

1920

1916

1918

1918

1918

1918

The Way Out

as Writer

1918

The Way Out

as Director

1918

The Way Out

as Producer

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