Gerd Oswald (June 9, 1919 – May 22, 1989) was a German director of American films and television.
5-798: Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald . Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. He made his film directorial debut at age 34 with The Iron Cross (1914) and worked a number of times for Jules Greenbaum . In 1916, Oswald set up his own production company in Germany, writing and directing most of his films himself. His pre-1920 efforts include such literary adaptations as The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917), Peer Gynt (1919),
10-482: A Thief , Rawhide , and The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) . Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 know Oswald as the director of the 1966 film Agent for H.A.R.M. He was an assistant director for 20 years, including on his father's film The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, but only released in 1945), aka Passport to Heaven and I Was a Criminal . Oswald was the uncredited second-unit director of The Longest Day (1962) responsible for staging
15-479: A significant number of Operetta films during his career. Being Jewish, Oswald was forced to flee Nazi Germany , first for occupied France and later emigrating to the United States. His last production was The Lovable Cheat (1949), an inexpensive adaptation of a Balzac story which boasted a cast including Charles Ruggles , Alan Mowbray , and Buster Keaton . Oswald later returned to Germany following
20-952: The end of the Second World War and died in Düsseldorf , West Germany in 1963. Gerd Oswald Born in Berlin, Oswald was the son of German film director Richard Oswald and actress Käthe Oswald. He worked as a child actor before emigrating to the United States in 1938. Early production jobs at low-budget studios like Monogram Pictures prepared Oswald for a directorial career. Oswald's film credits include A Kiss Before Dying (1956), Valerie (1957), Crime of Passion (1957), Brainwashed (1960), and Bunny O'Hare (1971). His television credits include Perry Mason , Blue Light , Bonanza , The Outer Limits , The Fugitive , Star Trek , Gentle Ben , It Takes
25-582: The once scandalous Different from the Others (1919) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1919). Oswald directed nearly 100 films. Some critics have suggested that Oswald was more prolific than talented, but such films as his horror film Unheimliche Geschichten (1932), produced by no less than Gabriel Pascal , would seem to refute this claim as it is viewed by some to be a forgotten classic. He made
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