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
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
- Under the Red Robe ... (Director)
- The Great John Ericsson
1935
- Walpurgis Night as Frederik Bergström
1934
- Synnöve Solbakken as Sämund Granliden
1931
- Scattered Pages
- Father and Son as Hilding Harald Markurell
- Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! as Self
1930
- Father and Son ... (Director)
- A Lady to Love ... (Director)
- Every Woman's Longing ... (Director)
1928
- The Wind ... (Director)
- The Divine Woman ... (Director)
- The Masks of the Devil ... (Director)
1927
- The Scarlet Letter ... (Director)
1925
- The Tower of Lies ... (Director)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- 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
- Karin, Daughter of Ingmar as Stor Ingmar
- A Lover in Pawn as Sammel Eneman
- The Monastery of Sendomir ... (Director)
1919
- Sons of Ingmar as Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson
- His Lord's Will ... (Director)
1918
- Thomas Graal's Best Child as Thomas Graal
- The Outlaw and His Wife as Outlaw / Kári
1917
- A Man There Was as Terje Vigen
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft ... (Director)
- Thomas Graal's Best Film as Thomas Graal
1916
- Therèse ... (Director)
- The Sea Vultures ... (Director)
- Kiss of Death as Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel
- Hon segrade
- The Ships That Meet ... (Director)
1915
- The Governor's Daughters ... (Director)
- Guilt Redeemed ... (Director)
- The Price of Betrayal ... (Director)
- Det var i maj ... (Writer)
- I prövningens stund
- Cobbler Stick to Your Last ... (Writer)
- Strejken
1914
- Judge Not ... (Director)
- Saints and Sorrows ... (Director)
- Högfjällets dotter
- Bra flicka reder sig själv ... (Writer)
- Children of the Streets ... (Director)
- Hjärtan som mötas ... (Director)
- Kärlek starkare än hat eller Skogsdotterns hemlighet ... (Director)
- För sin kärleks skull
1913
- Ingeborg Holm ... (Director)
- The Miracle ... (Director)
- The Voice of Passion as Daniel Barkner
- Livets konflikter
- Lady Marions sommarflirt ... (Director)
- Barnet
- Vampire
- Äktenskapsbyrån ... (Writer)
- Löjen och tårar ... (Director)
- When Love Kills as Oscar Falck
1912
- The Gardener as The Gardener
- A Secret Marriage ... (Screenplay)
- The Black Masks
- The Springtime of Life as Cyril Alm