Felix Basch

Felix Basch
Born	(1885-09-16)16 September 1885 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	17 May 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

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 out 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 the actress and singer Grete Freund and was the father of Peter Basch. Richard Tauber was a second cousin of his . According to U.S. immigration entry records, he gained his American citizenship through his father.

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

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 (German: Der Mann seiner Frau)(1926); starring Nils Asther, Lucy Doraine, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Rudolf Klein-Rogge
• 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 [it] (1930)
• Seine Freundin Annette (1931)

• Murray, Bruce Arthur (1990). Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic: From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-72465-5.
• Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2007) [2005]. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-303-9.