OSCAR APFEL

Oscar Apfel was an actor and director from 1911 to the 1930s. He began his career in 1911 as a director, and was given many prestigious assignments for Paramount Pictures, often in collaboration with Cecil B. DeMille. He later switched to Fox, and then freelanced for many smaller studios, but his directing career began to wane in the 1920s, and he eventually began a new career as a character actor, often cast as a senior government official, banker, businessman or other type of authority figure. Some of his movies include: The Squaw Man, The Finger Points, and A Man of Sorrow