- He emigrated together with Grete Freund to the USA in 1933.
- Father of famed photographer Peter Basch.
- When he didn't find the the working circumstances he was used to, he went to Paris via England and wrote scripts which weren't realized.
- The Jewish Basch was forced into exile.
- When the war broke out in Europe he went back to the USA again and inaugurated the restaurant "Grete's Viennese" in New York in 1940. When his plan to inaugurate a restaurant in Hollywood too failed he turned to the film business again. But the working system for American movies gave him problems - like for most of the film working emigrants. In the following years he impersonated many support roles in B movies.
- After a transfusion with contaminated blood (hepatitis B) he died at the age of 58.
- In the 20's he founded the film company "Kronen-Film GmbH" and together with his wife and actress Grete Freund the "Basch-Freund-Film, Berlin".
- The actor and director Felix Basch took acting lessons at the Burgtheater and got his first theater engagement in the play "Wilhelm Tell" in 1904. After a tour through Russia in 1912 followed engagements at the Theater des Westens and at the Metropol-Theater.
- Also in 1915 he shot his first movie as a director called "Der Herr Herr Baron" (15) and he soon became an experienced expert of his line. In the next years he concentrated on his work as a director, only sometimes he also appeared as an actor in his own movies or took part as an actor in movies of other directors.
- His cousin was the famous tenor Richard Tauber.
- Felix Basch made his film debut as an actor in 1913.
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