Richard Oswald

from Vienna, Austria

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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.

Timeline

1949Aged 69

  • Poster for The Lovable Cheat

    Producer

1942Aged 62

  • Poster for Isle of Missing Men

    Adaptation

1941Aged 61

  • Poster for I Was a Criminal

    Director

1940Aged 60

  • Poster for The Eternal Jew

    Self (archive footage)

1938Aged 58

  • Poster for Tempête sur l'Asie

    Director

1936Aged 56

  • Poster for Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben

    Writer

1934Aged 54

  • Poster for When You're Young, the World Belongs to You

    Director

  • Poster for Bleeke Bet

    Director

  • Poster for My Song Goes Round the World

    Producer

1933Aged 53

  • Poster for Crook's Honor

    Director

  • Poster for The Flower of Hawaii

    Director

  • Poster for A Song Goes Round the World

    Producer

  • Poster for Adventure on the Lido

    Director

1932Aged 52

  • Poster for The Living Dead

    Producer

  • Poster for Countess Mariza

    Director

1931Aged 51

  • Poster for 1914: The Last Days Before the War

    Producer

  • Poster for Schubert's Dream of Spring

    Producer

  • Poster for Victoria and Her Hussar

    Director

  • Poster for Poor as a Church Mouse

    Director

  • Poster for The Captain from Köpenick

    Producer

1930Aged 50

  • Poster for Alraune

    Producer

  • Poster for Vienna, City of Song

    Producer

  • Poster for Dreyfus

    Producer

  • Poster for The Tender Relatives

    Producer

1929Aged 49

1928Aged 48

  • Poster for The Green Alley

    Director

  • Poster for Villa Falconieri

    Director

1927Aged 47

  • Poster for A Crazy Night

    Producer

  • Poster for Lützow's Wild Hunt

    Producer

  • Poster for Agitated Woman

    Director

  • Assassination

    Director

  • Poster for Radio Magic

    Director

  • Poster for Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

    Director

  • Poster for The Fugitive Lover

    Director

1926Aged 46

1925Aged 45

1924Aged 44

  • Poster for Don Carlos und Elisabeth

    Writer

1923Aged 43

  • Poster for Earth Spirit

    Producer

1922Aged 42

1921Aged 41

1920Aged 40

1919Aged 39

1918Aged 38

1917Aged 37

1916Aged 36

1915Aged 35

1914Aged 34

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