Gerd Oswald

Gerd Oswald was a German director of American films and television.

Biography

Born in Berlin, Oswald was the son of German film director Richard Oswald and actress Käthe Oswald. He worked as a child actor before emigrating to the United States in 1938. Early production jobs at low-budget studios like Monogram Pictures prepared Oswald for a directorial career.
Oswald's film credits include A Kiss Before Dying, Valerie, Crime of Passion, Brainwashed, and Bunny O'Hare.
His television credits include Perry Mason, Blue Light, Bonanza, The [Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits], The Fugitive, Star Trek, Gentle Ben, It Takes a Thief, Rawhide, and The [Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)]. Oswald directed the 1966 film Agent for H.A.R.M., which was the basis of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.
He was an assistant director for 20 years, including on his father's film The Captain from Köpenick, aka Passport to Heaven and I Was a Criminal.
Oswald was the uncredited second-unit director of The [Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day] responsible for staging the parachute drop scenes into Sainte-Mère-Église, France on D-Day, during the Normandy landings of World War II.
Oswald died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 69.