Oscar C. Apfel was an American film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927.
Photo of Apfel from The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen (1920)
Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Lasky in 1915
Lasky standing outside "The Old Barn", where he and Cecil B. DeMille started a picture studio in 1913.