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.
Filmography (108 movies)
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Villa Falconieri
1928
Director
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Countess Mariza
1932
Director
7.0
7.0
Different from the Others
1919
Producer
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6.8
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1929
Director
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6.2
Isle of Missing Men
1942
Director
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The Tender Relatives
1930
Director
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1917
Producer
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Don Carlos und Elisabeth
1924
Director
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Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1921
Director
6.0
6.0
A Crazy Night
1927
Director
6.0
6.0
Schubert's Dream of Spring
1931
Director
5.8
5.8
The Living Dead
1932
Writer
5.8
5.8
The Captain from Köpenick
1931
Director
5.8
5.8
Lady Hamilton
1921
Writer
5.6
5.6
Dreyfus
1930
Director
5.5
5.5
Bleeke Bet
1934
Director
5.5
5.5
Poor as a Church Mouse
1931
Director
5.5
5.5
Around the World in 80 Days
1919
Writer
5.5
5.5
Earth Spirit
1923
Producer
5.5
5.5
1914: The Last Days Before the War
1931
Producer
5.4
5.4
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
1927
Director
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5.3
Eerie Tales
1919
Director
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5.2
Tales of Hoffmann
1916
Director
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5.2
Alraune
1930
Director
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5.0
The Merry-Go-Round
1920
Director
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5.0
My Song Goes Round the World
1934
Director
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Der ewige Zweifel
1918
Director
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Victoria and Her Hussar
1931
Director
5.0
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The Flower of Hawaii
1933
Director
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Should We Be Silent?
1926
Director
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5.0
Adventure on the Lido
1933
Director
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4.6
Cagliostro
1929
Director
4.5
4.5
The Eternal Jew
1940
as Self (archive footage)
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4.4
Lucrezia Borgia
1922
Director
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4.0
The Lovable Cheat
1949
Director
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4.0
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1914
Writer
3.4
3.4
A Song Goes Round the World
1933
Director
Die zärtlichen Verwandten (Trailer)
1930
Director
Es werde Licht! 2. Teil
1918
Director
Es werde Licht!
1917
Director
Rennfieber
1918
Director
The Uncanny House
1916
Writer
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
1919
Producer
Das Laster
1915
Writer
The White Horse Inn
1926
Director
Dämon und Mensch
1915
Director
Ewiger Strom
1920
Producer
Der lebende Leichnam
1918
Writer
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
1918
Director
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
1918
Director
Das Dreimäderlhaus
1918
Director
Die Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors
1917
Director
Das eiserne Kreuz
1914
Director
Ivan Koschula
1914
Director
Rags and Silk
1925
Producer
Zirkusblut
1916
Director
Lache, Bajazzo!
1915
Director
Ehe in Not
1929
Director
Halbseide
1925
Director
Die Frau von vierzig Jahren
1925
Director
The House in Dragon Street
1921
Director
Das vierte Gebot
1920
Director
Die silberne Kugel
1916
Director
Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
1916
Director
Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil
1916
Writer
Schlemihl
1915
Screenplay
Revenge of the Dead
1916
Writer
Und wandern sollst du ruhelos …
1915
Writer
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
1920
Producer
A Night of Horror
1917
Director
Prostitution
1919
Director
Figures of the Night
1920
Screenplay
The Way Out
1918
Producer
Es werde Licht! 3. Teil
1918
Writer
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
1918
Director
Der Hund von Baskerville, 2. Teil - Das einsame Haus
1914
Writer
Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil - Das unheimliche Zimmer
1915
Writer
Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil - Die Sage vom Hund von Baskerville