Victor Sjöström
Born: 1879-09-21 in Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden
Died: 1960-01-03
Known For: Directing
Biography
Victor David Sjöström (September 20, 1879 – January 3, 1960), sometimes known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include The Phantom Carriage (1921), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), and The Wind (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).
Filmography
1995
- Stjärnbilder as (archive footage)
1993
- Minns ni? as (archive footage)
1986
- Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown as Self (archive footage)
1957
- Wild Strawberries as Professor Isak Borg
- Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries as Self
1955
- Männen i mörker as Gustaf Landberg
1952
- Hård klang as Klaus Willenhart
- Love
1950
- To Joy as Sönderby
- The Quartet That Split Up as Gustaf Borg
1949
- Farlig vår as Antique Dealer Bladh
1948
1947
- Railroad Workers as Stora Ballong
1946
- Crisis ... (Producer)
1944
- Torment ... (Producer)
- The Emperor of Portugallia as Jan i Skrolycka
1943
- Ordet as Knut Borg Sr.
- There's a Fire Burning as Henrik Falkman
1941
- The Fight Continues as Andreas Berg
1939
- Gubben kommer
- Mot nya tider as Hjalmar Branting
1937
- The Great John Ericsson
- Under the Red Robe ... (Director)
1935
- Walpurgis Night as Frederik Bergström
1934
- Synnöve Solbakken as Sämund Granliden
1931
- Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! as Self
- Father and Son as Hilding Harald Markurell / ällarmästare på utvärdshuset Kupan
- Scattered Pages
1930
- A Lady to Love ... (Director)
- Every Woman's Longing ... (Director)
- Father and Son ... (Director)
1928
- The Wind ... (Director)
- The Divine Woman ... (Director)
- The Masks of the Devil ... (Director)
1927
- The Scarlet Letter ... (Director)
1925
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- The Tower of Lies ... (Director)
- Confessions of a Queen ... (Director)
1924
- He Who Gets Slapped ... (Director)
- Name the Man ... (Director)
1923
- The Hell Ship as Dick
1922
- Love's Crucible ... (Director)
- The House Surrounded
1921
- The Phantom Carriage as David Holm
1920
- The Monastery of Sendomir ... (Director)
- Karin, Daughter of Ingmar as Stor Ingmar
- A Lover in Pawn as Sammel Eneman
1919
- Sons of Ingmar as Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson
- His Grace’s Will ... (Writer)
1918
- The Outlaw and His Wife as Outlaw / Kári
- Thomas Graal's Best Child as Thomas Graal
1917
- A Man There Was as Terje Vigen
- Thomas Graal's Best Film as Thomas Graal
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft ... (Director)
1916
- She Won
- Kiss of Death as Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel
- Therèse ... (Director)
- The Sea Vultures ... (Director)
- Ships That Meet ... (Director)
1915
- The Price of Betrayal ... (Director)
- The Governor's Daughters ... (Director)
- Guilt Redeemed ... (Writer)
- In Time of Trial
- It Was in May ... (Director)
- One of the Many ... (Director)
- Cobbler Stick to Your Last ... (Director)
- The Strike
1914
- Halfbreed ... (Director)
- Daughter of the Highlands as Karl Werner - Läkare
- Love Stronger than Hate or The Secret of the Daughter of the Forest ... (Director)
- Saints and Sorrows ... (Director)
- Hearts That Meet ... (Director)
- For His Love’s Sake
- Judge Not ... (Director)
- Children of the Streets ... (Director)
- A Good Girl Fends for Herself ... (Writer)
1913
- Life’s Conflicts
- The Child as Georg Mills - Medicinare
- The Voice of Passion as Daniel Barkner
- The Marriage Bureau ... (Writer)
- Ingeborg Holm ... (Director)
- When Love Kills as Oscar Falck - Målare
- Smiles and Tears ... (Director)
- Lady Marion’s Summer Flirtation ... (Director)
- The Vampire
- The Miracle ... (Director)
1912
- The Gardener as Trädgårdsmästaren
- A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession ... (Director)
- The Springtime of Life as Cyril Alm
- The Black Masks as Von Mühlen - Löjtnant