Oscar Apfel
Highest Rated: 100% Bordertown (1935)
Lowest Rated: 75% Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Birthday: Jan 17, 1878
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Entering film as a director in 1911, Apfel enjoyed several successful collaborations with Cecil B. DeMille (notably on "The Squaw Man" 1914), before moving to Fox and then free-lancing for a number of years. His behind-the-camera career faded by the late 1920s, though, and subsequently he found steady work as a character actor in the sound era, most typically in distinguished, authoritative roles.
Photos
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
100% | 56% | Conquest | Count Potocka (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jim Hanvey, Detective | Lambert (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Murder at Glen Athol | Reuben Marshall (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Plot Thickens | H. G. Robbins (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rainbow's End | Neil Gibson Sr. (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 38% | I Dream Too Much | Cafe Owner (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1935 |
100% | 39% | Bordertown | Unknown (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fire Trap | R.A. Rawson (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Nut Farm | Bob Bent (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Romance in Manhattan | The Judge (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Perfect Tribute | Unknown (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary Jane's Pa | Chief Bailey (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Are We Civilized? | Dr. Leonard Gear (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It Happened One Day | A. L. Void (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Whirlpool | Editor (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Bring the Ducks | Governor (Character) | - | 1934 |
86% | 63% | The Story of Temple Drake | District Attorney (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 42% | The Bowery | Ivan Rummel (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Tugboat Annie | Reynolds (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Before Dawn | O'Hara (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency Call | Dr. Schwarz (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ladies Must Love | Nussbauer (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 20% | One Man's Journey | John Radford (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Way Back Home | Wobbling Duffy (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Shopworn | Forbes (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | State's Attorney | Mr. Ulrich (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 83% | It's Tough to Be Famous | S.J. Boynton (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias the Doctor | Keller (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Make Me a Star | Director Henshaw (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Hot Saturday | Ed W. Randolph (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Business and Pleasure | P.D. Weatheright (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When a Feller Needs a Friend | Doctor (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | False Faces | Fineberg (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heart of New York | Otto Gassenheim (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hell's Highway | Billings (Character) | - | 1932 |
91% | 79% | Five Star Final | Hinchecliffe (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | 40% | Big Business Girl | Walter T. Morley (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | 31% | Sidewalks of New York | Judge (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wicked | Judge Luther (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men in Her Life | Blake (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Inspiration | M. Vignaud (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once There Was a Princess | Mayor Twitchell (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Finger Points | Managing Editor Ellis Wheeler (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Texan | Thacker (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Right to Love | William Kellogg (Character) | - | 1930 |
75% | 37% | Abraham Lincoln | Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virtuous Sin | Maj. Ivanoff (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marianne | Maj. Russart (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Half Way to Heaven | Circus Manager (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heart of Broadway | Dave Richards (Character) | - | 1928 |
91% | No Score Yet | Ravished Armenia |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Phil-for-Short |
Director, Producer |
- | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting Blood |
Director, Writer |
- | 1916 |
No Score Yet | 22% | The Squaw Man |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1914 |
83% | No Score Yet | Brewster's Millions | Director | - | 1914 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Volunteer | Director | - | 1914 |