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Oscar Apfel
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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.
As director
Code of the Cow Country
Race Wild
When Seconds Count
The Call of the Klondike
The Last Alarm
The Midnight Limited
Somebody's Mother
Perils of the Coast Guard
Borrowed Finery
The Thoroughbred
The Sporting Chance
The Trail of the Law
The Heart Bandit
The Social Code
In Search of a Thrill
The Lion's Mouse
Bulldog Drummond
The Man Who Paid
The Wolf's Fangs
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Bringing Up Betty
The Oakdale Affair
Auction of Souls
Phil-for-Short
Me and Captain Kidd
An Amateur Widow
The Rough Neck
The Steel King
Mandarin's Gold
The Little Intruder
As actor
Angel of Mercy
Trouble in Morocco
The Toast of New York
Jim Hanvey, Detective
We Who Are About to Die
The Soldier and the Lady
Fifty Roads to Town
Murder at Glen Athol
Bulldog Edition
The Bridge of Sighs
Crack-Up
The Plot Thickens
Sutter's Gold
36 Hours to Kill
Hollywood Boulevard
That Girl from Paris
And Sudden Death
Every Saturday Night
Back to Nature
Man on the Flying Trapeze
I Dream Too Much
Rainbow's End
The Nut Farm
Shadows of the Orient
Romance in Manhattan
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
The Fire-Trap
The Best Man Wins
His Night Out
Death Flies East