Richard Oswald

Director

Born: November 5, 1880 (82 years old)

Died: September 11, 1963

Place of birth: Vienna, Austria

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.

Filmography (14)

• Different from the Others (1919, ★ 7.1)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929, ★ 6.8)
• Eerie Tales (1919, ★ 5.5)
• Tales of Hoffmann (1916, ★ 5.2)
• Alraune (1930, ★ 5.7)
• The Eternal Jew (1940, ★ 4.6)
• Earth Spirit (1923, ★ 5.5)
• Dreyfus (1930, ★ 5.6)
• The Captain from Köpenick (1931, ★ 5.8)
• Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed! (1927, ★ 5.4)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1922, ★ 4.4)
• Cagliostro (1929, ★ 4.6)
• A Song Goes Round the World (1933, ★ 3.4)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1914, ★ 4)