Friedrich Feher

{{Short description|Austrian actor and director (1889–1950)}} {{Use British English|date=March 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Friedrich Feher | image = Fritz Feher, silent film actor (SAYRE 9826) (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Feher in 1920 | birth_name = Friedrich Weiß | birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|3|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|9|30|1889|3|16|df=y}} | death_place = Stuttgart, West Germany | nationality = | death_cause = | spouse = Magda Sonja | children = {{ill|Hans Feher|de}} | other_names = Friedrich Fehér | known_for = | occupation = Actor, director | years_active = 1913–1950 }}

'''Friedrich Feher''' (born '''Friedrich Weiß''', 16 March 1889 – 30 September 1950. Sometimes spelled with an accent as '''Friedrich Fehér''') was an Austrian<ref>Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211</ref> actor and film director. He first entered the film business in 1913, starting out as an actor but quickly gravitating toward directing.<ref name="Tome">{{cite book |last1=Workman |first1=Christopher |last2=Howarth |first2=Troy |title=Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era |date=2016 |publisher=Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. |isbn=978-1936168682 |page=223}}</ref>

He is perhaps best remembered as Francis, the protagonist of ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920). He directed ''Das Haus des Dr. Gaudeamus'' (English: ''The House Without Windows'') the following year, based on a book by Thea von Harbou, in which his art directors mimicked the Expressionist set designs of ''Dr. Caligari''; it is now considered a lost film.<ref name="Tome"/>

Feher died in 1950 in Stuttgart at age 61.

==Selected filmography== '''Actor''' {{Div col}} * ''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) {{div col end}}

'''Director''' * ''Diamonds'' (1920) * ''Das Haus des Dr. Gaudeamus'' (1921)<ref name="Tome"/> * ''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?}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0270415}}

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