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
- Love
- Hård klang as Klaus Willenhart
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
- Mot nya tider as Hjalmar Branting
- Gubben kommer
1937
- Under the Red Robe ... (Director)
- The Great John Ericsson
1935
- Walpurgis Night as Frederik Bergström
1934
- Synnöve Solbakken as Sämund Granliden
1931
- Father and Son as Hilding Harald Markurell / ällarmästare på utvärdshuset Kupan
- Scattered Pages
- Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo! as Self
1930
- Every Woman's Longing ... (Director)
- A Lady to Love ... (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
- A Lover in Pawn as Sammel Eneman
- Karin, Daughter of Ingmar as Stor Ingmar
- The Monastery of Sendomir ... (Director)
1919
- Sons of Ingmar as Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson
- His Grace’s Will ... (Director)
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
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft ... (Director)
- Thomas Graal's Best Film as Thomas Graal
1916
- She Won
- The Sea Vultures ... (Director)
- Kiss of Death as Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel
- Therèse ... (Director)
- Ships That Meet ... (Director)
1915
- The Governor's Daughters ... (Director)
- It Was in May ... (Writer)
- Guilt Redeemed ... (Director)
- The Price of Betrayal ... (Director)
- Cobbler Stick to Your Last ... (Writer)
- The Strike
- In Time of Trial
- One of the Many ... (Director)
1914
- For His Love’s Sake
- Saints and Sorrows ... (Director)
- A Good Girl Fends for Herself ... (Writer)
- Halfbreed ... (Director)
- Judge Not ... (Director)
- Children of the Streets ... (Director)
- Daughter of the Highlands as Karl Werner - Läkare
- Hearts That Meet ... (Director)
- Love Stronger than Hate or The Secret of the Daughter of the Forest ... (Director)
1913
- Ingeborg Holm ... (Director)
- When Love Kills as Oscar Falck - Målare
- The Marriage Bureau ... (Writer)
- Lady Marion’s Summer Flirtation ... (Director)
- The Vampire
- Smiles and Tears ... (Director)
- The Child as Georg Mills - Medicinare
- The Miracle ... (Director)
- Life’s Conflicts
- The Voice of Passion as Daniel Barkner
1912
- The Gardener as Trädgårdsmästaren
- A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession ... (Screenplay)
- The Black Masks as Von Mühlen - Löjtnant
- The Springtime of Life as Cyril Alm