Born in Vienna, Teller founded and participated along with Viktor Schlesinger in the the original Jewish Heurigen- Duet Teller und Schlesinger. Teller founded the “speaking chorus”, and then founded and directed the Juedische-Politischen Cabarets Vienna (1927).
After the Anschluss, he went in exile to the USA via Great Britain (1939). In New York Teller founded the Juedische-Politischen Kleinkustbuhne along with his daughter Friedl Teller. Oscar Teller died in Tel Aviv (1985).