Friedrich Feher

Friedrich Feher (born Friedrich Weiss, 16 March 1889 – 30 September 1950) was an Austrian-Jewish[1] actor and film director. He first entered the film business in 1913, starting out as an actor but quickly gravitated toward directing.[2]

Friedrich Feher
Feher in 1920
Born
Friedrich Weiss

(1889-03-16)March 16, 1889
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
DiedSeptember 30, 1950(1950-09-30) (aged 61)
Stuttgart, Germany
OccupationActor, director
Years active1913–1950

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 Hoffman (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.

References
  1. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
  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.
  3. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  4. 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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