Austrian actor and director (1889–1950)
Friedrich Feher (born Friedrich Weiß, 16 March 1889 – 30 September 1950) was an Austrian[1] actor and film director. He first entered the film business in 1913, starting out as an actor but quickly gravitated toward directing.[2]
He is perhaps best remembered as Francis, the protagonist of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). He directed The House Without Windows that same year (based on a book by Thea von Harbou), in which his art directors mimicked the Expressionist set designs of Caligari; it is now considered a lost film.[3]
Feher died in 1950 in Stuttgart at age 61.
Selected filmography
Actor
- Kabale und Liebe (1913)
- Emilia Galotti (1913) - Odoardo
- Die Räuber (1913) - Karl Moor
- Die Ehe der jungen Felicitas (1913)
- Stürme (1913)
- Die Befreiung der Schweiz und die Sage vom Wilhelm Tell (1913) - Hermann Gessler
- Theodor Körner (1914) - Theodor Körner
- Alexandra (1915) - Graf Erwin
- The Robber Bride (1916, Short)
- Lebenswogen (1917)
- Das neue Leben (1918)
- Bergblumen (1919) - Kunstler Daniel Thom Suhn
- Pro domo, das Geheimnis einer Nacht (1919)
- Der unsichtbare Gast (1919)
- Wie das Schicksal spielt (1920) - Erwin Freiburg
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - Franzis
- The Three Dances of Mary Wilford (1920)
- Die tote Stunde (1920)
- Tyrannei des Todes (1920) - Toter
- Die sieben Gesichter (1920)
- Marionetten des Teufels (1920)
- Die rote Hexe (1921)
- Das Haus des Dr. Gaudeamus (1921)
- Die Geburt des Antichrist (1922)
- Die Memoiren eines Mönchs (1922) - Oginski
- The Tales of Hoffmann (1923)
- Der Rosenkavalier (1926) - Valzacchi
- Ihr Junge (1931) - Michowski
- Jive Junction (1943) - Frederick Feher (final film role)
Director
Bibliography
- Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.[ISBN missing]
References
- ^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
- ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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