- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Nov 5, 1880
- Died
- Sep 11, 1963 (aged 82)
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria
Richard Oswald
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.
