Known For: Directing
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Status: Deceased at 82 years old (death on 11/09/1963)
Date of Birth: 05/11/1880
Place of Birth: 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.