Felix Basch

Felix Basch
Born	(1885-09-16)September 16, 1885 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	May 17, 1944(1944-05-17) (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film actor, screenwriter, film director
Years active	1914 - 1944
Spouse	Gretl Basch

Felix Basch (1885–1944) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director.

He first acted in Vienna, and he was a producer and director for the German film production company U. F. A. Following the Nazi takover of power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish Basch was forced into exile and moved to the United States where he appeared in a large number of films acting in character roles. He was married to Gretl Basch and was the father of Peter Basch.

Basch died May 18, 1944, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, California, after several major operations.

Selected filmography

Actor

• My Leopold (1914)
• The Tunnel (1915)
• Pacific Rendezvous (1942)
• Chetniks (1943)
• The Falcon in Danger (1943) - Morley
• The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
• Appointment in Berlin (1943)
• Women in Bondage (1943)
• The Hitler Gang (1944)

Director

• The Rose of Stamboul (1919)
• Roswolsky's Mistress (1921)
• Miss Julie (1922)
• The Stream (1922)
• Destiny (1925)
• Darling, Count the Cash (1926)
• The Girl on a Swing (1926)
• The Son of Hannibal (1926)
• Mascottchen (1929)
• Zwei Krawatten (1930)
• Seine Freundin Annette (1931)

Bibliography

• Murray, Bruce Arthur. Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe. University of Texas Press, 1990.
• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

• Felix Basch at IMDb