Oskar Marion


Oskar Marion was an Austrian film actor.

Life

Born as Oskar Viktor Lepka in Brno on 2 April 1896. His parents were physician Antonín Lepka and Žofie Lepková. Marion went to study medicine to Vienna, but after 1 year he had to enlist to be an ambulance driver, when World War I broke out. After the war ended he decided to become an actor. He worked at Wiener Kammerspiele, Brno City Theatre, Estates Theatre and several theatres in Berlin. From 1919 to 1940 he acted mostly in German and Austrian movies. He had a few roles in Czech movies, because he was fluent in both German and Czech. After the end of his acting career, he worked as an assistant director and producer in West Germany.

Selected filmography

The Loves of Käthe Keller The Secret of the Scaffold Colonel Chabert At War in the Diamond Fields Die rote Nacht The Favourite of the Queen The Men of Frau Clarissa Monna Vanna Judith The Woman from the Orient Frauenmoral The Heart of Lilian Thorland Taras Bulba Struggle for the Soil Lightning My Friend the Chauffeur Fedora Little Inge and Her Three Fathers Valencia The Dashing Archduke Linden Lady on the Rhine Did You Fall in Love Along the Beautiful Rhine? The Lone Eagle The Csardas Princess Storm Tide Two Red Roses The Foreign Legionnaire Waterloo Lady in the Spa Call of the Blood Andreas Hofer The Organist at St. Vitus' Cathedral Gigolo Marriage in Name Only The Deed of Andreas Harmer Sunday of Life When the Soldiers Circus Life The Good Soldier Schweik Road to Rio No More Love Drei von der Kavallerie Marschall Vorwärts Professor Cupidon The Ideal Schoolmaster The Judas of Tyrol The Hymn of Leuthen Drei Kaiserjäger The Poacher from Egerland Hundred Days Quarrymen Fridericus Ein Robinson A Heart Beats for You