Friedrich Feher Explained

Friedrich Feher
Birth Name:	Friedrich Weiß
Birth Date:	16 March 1889
Birth Place:	Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:	Stuttgart, West Germany
Spouse:	Magda Sonja
Children:	Hans Feher
Other Names:	Friedrich Fehér
Occupation:	Actor, director
Years Active:	1913 - 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) - 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.

Notes and References

1. [Siegbert Salomon Prawer]
2. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223..
3. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223..
4. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 223..