Austrian actor and director
The height of his film career followed in the 20s and he even founded his own film production company.
He went to the USA at the end of 1936 where he was able to continue his film career briefly. He was responsible for the serial "Paramount Symphonics" and he appeared a last time in front of the camera for "Jive Junction" (43).
The main income of the Fehr family during the years of emigration came by increasingly lack film successes from other operations. Since 1939 Fehr worked mainly as a conductor and earned extra income as manager of a grocery store.
He already joined the still young film business in 1911 and he impersonated numerous roles in movies of the 10s.
His son was the actor Hans Fehrer.
Only a few year after his film debut he also began to realise movies as a director.
He already made his stage debut at the age of 18 and in the following years he got engagements in important cities like Vienna, Prague, Hamburg and Berlin.
His wife , once a silent movie star in the German-speaking countries , was not active in the US sound film.
With the rise of the sound film his film career came to an end more or less. As a director he shot "Kdyz struny ikaji" (30), "Ihr Junge" (31) and "Gehetzte Menschen" (32) and as an actor he appeared in "Ihr Junge (31). Moreover after 1933 he was longer able to work in Germany because he was a Jew. Therefore he went via Czechoslovakia to England. There he founded again a film company and he realised his last movie as a director with "The Robber Symphony".
He conducted the National Philharmonic Symphonic Orchestra in a 1939-40 series of eight "Symphonic Featurettes", produced by the National Philharmonic Association and distributed by Paramount Pictures film exchanges. The titles of the eight "Symphonic Featurettes" short subjects were: "Aida"- "Rosamonda" - "Pittoresque" - "Capricio"- "1812 Overture" - "Lenore" - "Tales from Vienna Woods" and "Second Rhapsody" At no time in his career was he responsible for the serial "Paramount Symphonics" as there is no serial from Paramount (a studio that never made a sound-era serial) called "Paramount Symphonics".
