Victor Sjöström

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Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström (help·info) (in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom) (September 20, 1879 – January 3, 1960) was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.


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Born in Silbodal, Värmland County, Sweden, he was only a year old when his family moved to Brooklyn, New York where he remained until the death of his mother when he was seven years old. Returning to live with relatives in Stockholm, he was 17 years old when he began his acting career on stage as a member of a touring theater company. From this, he went on to become one of the most important forces in the development of the Swedish film industry.

Drawn from the stage to the fledgling motion picture industry, he made his first silent film in 1912 under the direction of Mauritz Stiller. Between then and 1923, he directed another forty-one films before accepting an offer from Louis B. Mayer to work in the United States. In Sweden, he acted in his own films as well as in those for others but in Hollywood, he devoted himself to directing. In 1924, using the Americanized name, Victor Seastrom, he made Name the Man, a dramatic film based on the Hall Caine novel. He went on to direct great stars of the day such as Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish, Lon Chaney, and Norma Shearer in another eight films in America before his first talkie in 1930.

Uncomfortable with the modifications needed to direct talking films, Victor Sjöström returned to Sweden where he directed two more silent films before his final directing effort in 1937, an English language drama filmed in the United Kingdom titled Under the Red Robe. For the next fifteen years, Sjöström performed a variety of leading roles in more than a dozen films and worked as director of the "Svensk Film Industri." At age 78 he gave his final acting performance, an acclaimed effort in the 1957 Ingmar Bergman film, Wild Strawberries.

Victor Sjöström died in Stockholm at the age of eighty and was interred there in the Norra begravningsplatsen.

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[edit] As director

  • Under the Red Robe (1937)
  • Markurells i Wadköping (1931) Father and Son, Markurells of Wadköping, Vater und Sohn
  • Väter und Söhne (1930) Geheimnis der Ehe, Das
  • A Lady to Love (1930)
  • The Wind (1928)
  • The Masks of the Devil (1928)
  • The Divine Woman (1928)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1926)
  • The Tower of Lies (1925)
  • Confessions of a Queen (1925)
  • He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
  • Name the Man (1924)
  • Eld ombord (1923) Fire on Board, Jealousy, The Hell Ship
  • Omringade huset, Det (1922) The House Surrounded, The Surrounded House
  • Vem dömer (1922) Love's Crucible, Mortal Clay
  • Klostret i Sendomir (Secret of the Monastery, The Monastery of Sendomir, 1920)
  • Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage, The Phantom Chariot, The Stroke of Midnight, Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness, 1921)
  • Mästerman (1920) A Lover in Pawn
  • Karin Ingmarsdotter (1920) God's Way, Karin Daughter of Ingmar
  • Klostret i Sendomir (1920) Secret of the Monastery,The Monastery of Sendomir
  • Hans nåds testamente (1919) His Grace's Last Testament,His Grace's Will, His Lordship's Last Will
  • Ingmarssönerna (1919) Dawn of Love, Sons of Ingmar
  • Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (1918) Eyvind of the Hills, Love: The Only Law, The Outlaw and His Wife, You and I
  • Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917) Girl from Stormy Croft, The Girl from the Marsh Croft, The Woman He Chose
  • Terje Vigen (1917) A Man There Was
  • Therèse (1916)
  • Dödskyssen (1916) Kiss of Death
  • Hon segrade (1916) She Triumphs
  • Havsgamar (1916) Predators of the Sea The Sea Vultures
  • Skepp som mötas (1916) The Ships That Meet
  • Judaspengar (1915) The Price of Betrayal
  • I prövningens stund (1915) In the Hour of Trial
  • Skomakare, bliv vid din läst (1915) Stick to Your Last, Shoemaker
  • Landshövdingens döttrar (1915) The Governor's Daughters, Det var i maj (1915)
  • Sonad skuld (1915) Guilt Redeemed
  • En av de många (1915) One of the Many
  • Hjärtan som mötas (1914) Hearts That Meet
  • Högfjällets dotter (1914) Daughter of the Peaks
  • Gatans barn (1914) Children of the Streets
  • Bra flicka reder sig själv (1914) A Good Girl Keeps Herself in Good Order
  • Strejken (1914) The Strike
  • Dömen icke (1914) ("Judge Not")
  • Prästen (1914) ("Saints and Their Sorrows", "The Clergyman", "The Parson" )
  • Kärlek starkare än hat eller skogsdotterns hemlighet (1914) ("The Poacher")
  • Miraklet (1913) ("The Miracle", "Within the Gates")
  • Livets konflikter (1913) ("The Conflicts of Life")
  • Halvblod (1913) ("Half Breed")
  • Ingeborg Holm (1913)("Margaret Day")
  • Blodets röst (1913) ("The Voice of Passion")
  • Lady Marions sommarflirt (1913) ("Lady Marion's Summer Flirtation")
  • Löjen och tårar (1913) Laughter and Tears
  • Äktenskapsbyrån (1913) Marriage Bureau
  • Trädgårdsmästaren (1912)
  • Hemligt giftermål, Ett (1912)

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