Friedrich Feher

Friedrich Feher
Friedrich Feher
	Feher in 1920
Born	Friedrich Weiß; 16 March 1889; Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	30 September 1950 (aged 61); Stuttgart, West Germany
Other names	Friedrich Fehér
Occupation(s)	Actor, director
Years active	1913–1950
Spouse	Magda Sonja
Children	Hans Feher

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) - Francis
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

Diamonds (1920)
The House Without Windows (1920) aka Das Haus des Dr. Gaudeamus^[4]
Confessions of a Monk (1922)
Ssanin (1924)
Forbidden Love (1927)
Mary Stuart (1927)
That Murder in Berlin (1929)
Když struny lkají (1930)
Haunted People (1932)
The Robber Symphony (1936)

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.