Felix Basch

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Felix Basch on a photograph by Nicola Perscheid

Felix Basch (born September 16, 1885 in Vienna , † May 17, 1944 in Los Angeles ) was an Austro-German actor , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Felix Basch learned the profession of actor at the Vienna Burgtheater - one of his teachers was Adolf von Sonnenthal - where he then belonged to the ensemble. In 1913 Richard Tauber's cousin came to Berlin with his wife, the operetta singer Grete Freund , where he made his first film. In 1914 he wrote his first screenplay for the film The Living Ghost , in which he also appeared as the leading actor . From 1915 he also worked as a director and producer , his first films include Der Herr Baron , To make your child's happiness and stone under stones .

In the 1920s, Basch was one of the most famous directors of German silent film . In one of the first dubbing works in Germany, Erich von Stroheim 's first sound film The Great Gabbo from 1929, he was the voice director and also took on a speaking role.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he went into exile in the USA with his wife and son Peter Basch , who would later become a famous photographer . At first the family lived in New York City , but moved to Hollywood in 1935 , where, like so many German emigrants, he did not succeed in gaining a foothold in his old profession. He left the family and went back to Europe, where he tried to write and realize scripts in London and Paris. When he was unsuccessful there, too, Basch returned to his family in Los Angeles in 1939, where he earned his living from 1942 with small roles in American propaganda films .

In 1944 he fell ill after a blood transfusion to hepatitis B , and died at the age of only 58 years.

Filmography

actor

Directing work and script

  • 1914: The Living Ghost (also screenplay)
  • 1915: Der Herr Baron (also actor, screenplay and production)
  • 1915: For the happiness of your child (also actor)
  • 1915: The last part (also actor)
  • 1916: stone among stones
  • 1916: The burden
  • 1916: Stock Exchange and Nobility
  • 1916: The whim of a fashion queen
  • 1916: The dog with the monocle
  • 1916: Flying shadows
  • 1917: The silhouette of the devil
  • 1917: A night in the skyscraper
  • 1917: One night in the steel chamber
  • 1919: The Rose of Stambul
  • 1920: The silver fetter
  • 1920: Patience
  • 1920: Mascotte (also screenplay and actor)
  • 1920: The love of the slave
  • 1921: Rosvolsky's mistress
  • 1921: Miss Julie
  • 1921: The Curse of Silence (also actors and production)
  • 1921: Hannerl and her lovers (also actors)
  • 1922: The river (also actors and production)
  • 1922: End of Sodom (also production)
  • 1923: A lucky ship
  • 1923: sins of youth (also actor)
  • 1925: fate (also screenplay)
  • 1926: his wife's husband
  • 1926: The girl on the swing
  • 1926: Treasure, cash in (also screenplay)
  • 1926: The son of Hannibal (also screenplay)
  • 1927: The world holds its breath
  • 1927: a serious case (also screenplay)
  • 1927: The dollar princess and her six suitors
  • 1927: one + one = three
  • 1929: mascots
  • 1929: The Great Gabbo ( The Great Gabbo ) (voice director)
  • 1930: His girlfriend Annette
  • 1930: two ties

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 84 ff., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basch, Felix . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 13.
  2. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films. 1915-1916 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 542 .
personal data
SURNAME Basch, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1944
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA