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
- Under the Red Robe ... (Director)
- The Great John Ericsson
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 Masks of the Devil ... (Director)
- The Divine Woman ... (Director)
1927
- The Scarlet Letter ... (Director)
1925
- Confessions of a Queen ... (Director)
- The Tower of Lies ... (Director)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
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
- The Monastery of Sendomir ... (Director)
- Karin, Daughter of Ingmar as Stor Ingmar
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
- Thomas Graal's Best Film as Thomas Graal
- A Man There Was as Terje Vigen
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft ... (Director)
1916
- Kiss of Death as Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel
- The Sea Vultures ... (Director)
- Therèse ... (Director)
- She Won
- Ships That Meet ... (Director)
1915
- The Governor's Daughters ... (Director)
- It Was in May ... (Writer)
- The Price of Betrayal ... (Director)
- One of the Many ... (Director)
- Guilt Redeemed ... (Director)
- Cobbler Stick to Your Last ... (Writer)
- In Time of Trial
- 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)
- For His Love’s Sake
- Saints and Sorrows ... (Director)
- Hearts That Meet ... (Director)
- A Good Girl Fends for Herself ... (Writer)
- Children of the Streets ... (Director)
- Judge Not ... (Director)
1913
- The Child as Georg Mills - Medicinare
- Life’s Conflicts
- 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 Miracle ... (Director)
- The Vampire
1912
- A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession ... (Screenplay)
- The Gardener as Trädgårdsmästaren
- The Springtime of Life as Cyril Alm
- The Black Masks as Von Mühlen - Löjtnant