Oscar Eagle

Oscar Eagle (January 21, 1861–March 14, 1930) was an American stage and film director during the silent film era. He is remembered for such films as Cupid's Caprice (1914), The Little Hobo (1914), The Dictator (1915), and Fruits of Desire (1916).

Oscar Eagle was born on January 21, 1861, in Gallipolis, Ohio. He made his Broadway debut in 1904, as an actor and director, in Alice Hegan Rice's play Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.

Eagle then started working for William Selig's Selig Polyscope Company, a Chicago-based motion picture company that also had its studios in California. In 1912, he made his directorial debut with The Last Dance, starring Charles Clary and Winifred Greenwood. In 1914, he directed Cupid's Caprice with Harold Vosburgh and Alma Russell.

In 1915, Eagle and Edwin S. Porter co-directed the silent comedy film The Dictator starring John Barrymore, Charlotte Ives, and Ruby Hoffman. The film was re-released on April 13, 1919, as part of the Paramount "Success Series" of their early screen successes. The story was re-filmed in 1922 as The Dictator (directed by James Cruzeand starring Wallace Reid and Theodore Kosloff.

Eagle's last directorial work on the silver screen was The Frozen Warning in 1917, starring Charlotte Hayward and Jack Meredith. After that, he went back to the theater in the years 1918—1928, with his name appearing in numerous Broadway productions. He then directed Marx brothers in The Cocoanuts (music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and written by George S. Kaufman) and Animal Crackers (music/lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, and written by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.) Both musicals were successful and well-received and were later brought to the screen by Paramount Pictures.

Eagle was married to actress Esther Lyon (October 30, 1868—July 15, 1958).

Eagle died in New York City on March 14, 1930, at the age of 69.

Director

• The Last Dance - short film (1912)
• Under Suspicion - short film (1912)
• The Miller of Burgundy - short film (1912)
• The Girl at the Dome - short film (1912)
• Betty Fools Dear Old Dad - short film (1912)
• As the Fates Decree - short film (1912)
• Bread Upon the Waters - short film (1912)
• Where Love Is, There God Is Also - short film (1912)
• The Water Rats - short film (1912)
• The Fire Fighter's Love - short film (1912)
• The Man Who Might Have Been - short film (1913)
• The False Order - short film (1913)
• The Lesson - short film (1913)
• A Husband Won by Election - short film (1913)
• The Ferrets - short film (1913)
• The Ex-Convict - short film (1913)
• Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy - short film (1913)
• The Scales of Justice - short film (1913)
• Arabia: The Equine Detective - short film (1913)
• Robert Hale's Ambition - short film (1913)
• Love in the Ghetto - short film (1913)
• Arabia Takes the Health Cure - short film (1913)
• Belle Boyd, a Confederate Spy - short film (1913)
• Arabia and the Baby - short film (1913)
• The Stolen Face - short film (1913)
• The Coast of Chance - short film (1913)
• Tobias Turns the Tables - short film (1913)
• The Water Rat - short film (1913)
• The Man in the Street - short film (1913)
• The Jeweled Slippers - short film (1913)
• The Wheels of Fate - short film (1913)
• Around Battle Tree - short film (1913)
• The Toils of Deception - short film (1913)
• Tobias Wants Out - short film (1913)
• The Invisible Government] - short film (1913)
• Our Neighbors - short film (1913)
• The Finger Print - short film (1913)
• Life for Life - short film (1913)
• Miss 'Arabian Nights' - short film (1913)
• Our Mutual Girl, co-directed by Lawrence B. McGill, John W. Noble is Walter Stanhope - film serial (1914)
• A Modern Revenge - short film (1914)
• Suppressed News - short film (1914)
• Cupid's Caprice - short film (1914)
• Her Ladyship - short film (1914)
• The Second Wife - short film (1914)
• The Estrangement - short film (1914)
• The Pirates of Peacock Alley - short film (1914)
• The Royal Box - short film (1914)
• The Doctor's Mistake - short film (1914)
• The Girl at His Side - short film (1914)
• The Little Hobo - short film (1914)
• The Lure of the Ladies - short film (1914)
• The Five Hundred Dollar Kiss- short film (1914)
• Love vs. Pride - short film (1914)
• Runaway June (1915)
• The Dictator (1915)
• The Cotton King (1915)
• The Little Mademoiselle (1915)
• The Sins of Society (1915)
• Fruits of Desire (o The Ambition of Mark Truitt) (1916)
• Pioneer Days - short film (1917)
• The Frozen Warning (1917)
• Toll of Sin - short film (1917)
• A Daughter of the Southland - short film (1917)

Producer

• The Lure of the Ladies, directed by Oscar Eagle - short film (1914)

Theater shows

• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Broadway, September 3, 1904)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (revival) (Broadway, September 17, 1906)
• Sometime (Broadway, October 4, 1918)
• The Melting of Molly (Broadway, December 30, 1918)
• The Little Whopper (Broadway, 13 October 1919)
• The Little Blue Devil (Broadway, November 3, 1919)
• Three Showers (Broadway, April 5, 1920)
• Jimmie (Broadway, November 17, 1920)
• Marjolaine (Broadway, January 24, 1922)
• Just Because (Broadway, March 22, 1922)
• Virtue (?) (Broadway, November 16, 1922)
• Wildflower (Broadway, February 7, 1923)
• Within Four Walls (Broadway, April 17, 1923)
• Princess April (Broadway, 1st December 1924)
• Topsy and Eva (Broadway, December 23, 1924)
• When You Smile (Broadway, October 5, 1925)
• Holka Polka (Broadway, October 14, 1925)
• The Cocoanuts (Broadway, December 8, 1925)
• The Matinee Girl (Broadway, February 1, 1926)
• Just Life (Broadway, September 14, 1926)
• Katy Did (Broadway, May 9, 1927)
• The Cocoanuts (Broadway, May 16, 19127)
• Enchanted Isle (Broadway, September 19, 1927)
• Animal Crackers (Broadway, 23 October 1928)
• Houseboat on the Styx (Broadway, December 25, 1928)