Richard Oswald

Director

1880-11-05 – 1963-09-11 · Vienna, Austria

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.

• Different from the Others (1919) — Director, Writer, Producer
• Eerie Tales (1919) — , Producer, Director, Story
• Alraune (1930) — Director, Producer
• Cagliostro (1929) — Director, Executive Producer
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929) — Director
• Lucrezia Borgia (1922) — Director, Writer
• Earth Spirit (1923) — Producer
• A Song Goes Round the World (1933) — Director, Producer
• Dreyfus (1930) — Director, Producer
• The Captain from Köpenick (1931) — Director, Producer
• Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed! (1927) — Director
• Tales of Hoffmann (1916) — , Director, Writer
• The Living Dead (1932) — Director, Writer, Producer
• Isle of Missing Men (1942) — Director, Adaptation
• Lady Hamilton (1921) — Director, Writer
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1914) — Writer
• The Flower of Hawaii (1933) — Director
• The Lovable Cheat (1949) — Adaptation, Director, Producer
• 1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931) — Director, Producer
• Adventure on the Lido (1933) — Director
• Poor as a Church Mouse (1931) — Director
• Bleeke Bet (1934) — Director
• Victoria and Her Hussar (1931) — Director
• Around the World in 80 Days (1919) — Writer, Director