Richard Oswald
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.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1880-11-05 · Vienna, Austria
- Died
- 1963-09-11
Known for
- Different from the Others (1919) — Director
- The Eternal Jew (1940) — Self (archive footage)
- Eerie Tales (1919)
- Alraune (1930) — Director
- Cagliostro (1929) — Director
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929) — Director
- Lucrezia Borgia (1922) — Director
- Earth Spirit (1923) — Producer
- A Song Goes Round the World (1933) — Director
- Dreyfus (1930) — Director
- The Captain from Köpenick (1931) — Director
- Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed! (1927) — Director
- Tales of Hoffmann (1916)
- The Living Dead (1932) — Director
- Isle of Missing Men (1942) — Director
- Lady Hamilton (1921) — Director