Felix Basch

Felix Basch (1885–1944) was a Jewish 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 takeover of power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish Basch was forced of films and went into exile, moving 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. Richard Tauber was a second cousin of him .

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

Selected filmography

Actor

Director
 The Rose of Stamboul (1919)
 Patience (1920)
 Mascotte (1920)
 Roswolsky's Mistress (1921)
 Hannerl and Her Lovers (1921)
 Miss Julie (1922)
 The Stream (1922)
 The Curse of Silence (1922)
 Destiny (1925)
 Love's Finale (1925)
 Darling, Count the Cash (1926)
 Her Husband's Wife (1926)
 The Girl on a Swing (1926)
 The Son of Hannibal (1926)
 A Serious Case (1927)
 One Plus One Equals Three (1927)
 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.

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Category:1882 births
Category:1944 deaths
Category:Austrian film directors
Category:Austrian male film actors
Category:Austrian male silent film actors
Category:Austrian screenwriters
Category:Male screenwriters
Category:Male actors from Vienna
Category:Austrian Jews
Category:Austrian emigrants to the United States
Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Category:20th-century Austrian male actors