Person
Richard Oswald
- Specialty
- Directing
- Birth
- November 5, 1880 · 82 years
- Death
- September 11, 1963
- Origin
- Vienna, Austria
Technical Alias
Рихард Освальд
Professional Trajectory
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.
