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Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström

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(in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom) (20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

 actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

, and film director
Film director
A film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....

.

Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland
Värmland
' is a historical province or landskap in the west of middle Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland and Närke. It is also bounded by Norway in the west. Its Latin name is Wermelandia; its English derivative is Wermland or similar variation. The origin of the name is...

 region of Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström
Olof Adolf Sjöström
Olof Adolf Sjöström operated a remittance company that defrauded customers in 1894.-Biography:He was born on February 4, 1841 in Ljustorp, Sweden. He moved to America around 1880, and he started a money transfer agency in Brooklyn that transferred money back to Sweden. The rest of the Sjöström...

, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886. Sjöström returned to Sweden where he lived with relatives in Stockholm, beginning his acting career at 17 as a member of a touring theater company.

Drawn from the stage to the fledgling motion picture industry, he made his first film in 1912 under the direction of Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish Jewish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...

.
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(in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom) (20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

 actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

, and film director
Film director
A film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....

.

Biography


Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland
Värmland
' is a historical province or landskap in the west of middle Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland and Närke. It is also bounded by Norway in the west. Its Latin name is Wermelandia; its English derivative is Wermland or similar variation. The origin of the name is...

 region of Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström
Olof Adolf Sjöström
Olof Adolf Sjöström operated a remittance company that defrauded customers in 1894.-Biography:He was born on February 4, 1841 in Ljustorp, Sweden. He moved to America around 1880, and he started a money transfer agency in Brooklyn that transferred money back to Sweden. The rest of the Sjöström...

, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886. Sjöström returned to Sweden where he lived with relatives in Stockholm, beginning his acting career at 17 as a member of a touring theater company.

Drawn from the stage to the fledgling motion picture industry, he made his first film in 1912 under the direction of Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller
Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish Jewish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...

. Between then and 1923, he directed another forty-one films in Sweden, some of which are now lost. Those surviving include The Sons of Ingmar (1919), Karin, Daughter of Ingmar (1920) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), all based on stories by the Nobel-prize winning novelist Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige .- Biography :Born at Mårbacka an estate in Värmland in western...

, confirm him as one the very greatest of silent film directors, who helped to create a unique idiom with qualities quite different from those of sound cinema. Many of his films from the period are marked by subtle character portrayal, fine storytelling and evocative settings in which the Swedish landscape often plays a key psychological role. The naturalistic quality of his films was enhanced by his (then revolutionary) preference for on-location filming, especially in rural and village settings.

In the 1920s he accepted an offer from Louis B. Mayer
Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer was a Russian-born American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...

 to work in the United States
United States
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. In Sweden, he had acted in his own films as well as in those for others but in Hollywood, he devoted himself solely to directing. In 1924, using an anglicised name, Victor Seastrom, he made Name the Man, a dramatic film based on the Hall Caine
Hall Caine
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH, KBE , usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular and at the peak of his success his novels outsold those of his...

 novel. He went on to direct great stars of the day such as Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a Swedish actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age....

, John Gilbert
John Gilbert (actor)
John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover", he rivaled even Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw...

, Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's...

, Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. He is best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his...

, and Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the mid-1920s until her retirement in 1942...

 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 films before his final directing effort in 1937, an English language drama filmed in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 Under the Red Robe
Under the Red Robe
Under the Red Robe is an 1894 novel by Stanley J. Weyman, which has also been made into a 1937 British swashbuckler film, set in France around the time of Cardinal Richelieu ....

. Over the following fifteen years, Sjöström returned to acting in the theatre, performed a variety of leading roles in more than a dozen films and worked as director of the Svensk Film Industri
AB Svensk Filmindustri
AB Svensk Filmindustri or Svensk Filmindustri is a Swedish film production film production company, distributor and movie theatre chain, currently owned by the Bonnier Group. It was established on December 27 1919....

 company. At age 78 he gave his final acting performance, probably his best remembered, as the elderly professor in Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work often dealt with themes such as bleakness and despair, as well as comedy and hope, in his cinematic exploration of the human condition...

's film, Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries (film)
Wild Strawberries is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish title is Smultronstället, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem of a place...

(1957).

Victor Sjöström died in Stockholm at the age of eighty and was interred there in the Norra begravningsplatsen
Norra begravningsplatsen
Norra begravningsplatsen, literally "The Northern Cemetery" in Swedish, is a major cemetery of Metropolitan Stockholm. The cemetery is located in the municipality of Solna....

 (Northern cemetery).

As director


  • Ett hemligt giftermål
    A Ruined Life
    A Ruined Life is a 1912 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. It was Sjöström's debut film as a director.-Cast:* Hilda Borgström* John Ekman* Einar Fröberg* Bergliot Husberg* Richard Lund* Anna Norrie...

    (1912)
  • Trädgårdsmästaren
    The Gardener (film)
    The Gardener is a 1912 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is mostly known for being the first film to ever be banned by the Swedish censor system. It was long thought to have been lost, but in 1979 a copy was found in an archive in the United States...

    (1912
    1912 in film
    The year 1912 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Mack Sennett, who had previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, formed a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel called Keystone Studios...

    )
  • Marriage Bureau
    Marriage Bureau
    Marriage Bureau is a 1913 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Helfrid Lambert - Mrs. Petterkvist* Victor Lundberg - Petterkvist...

    (Äktenskapsbyrån) (1913)
  • Laughter and Tears
    Laughter and Tears (1913 film)
    Laughter and Tears is a 1913 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Victor Lundberg - Drager* Mia Hagman - Augusta* Richard Lund - Arvid Drager* Tutt Spångberg - Hilda, maid* Hugo Björne - Larsson...

    (Löjen och tårar) (1913)
  • Lady Marion's Summer Flirtation
    Lady Marion's Summer Flirtation
    Lady Marion's Summer Flirtation is a 1913 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Hilda Borgström - Lady Marion* Victor Lundberg - Viktor* Richard Lund - Lord Handsome* Axel Ringvall - Axel Pärzon...

    (Lady Marions sommarflirt) (1913)
  • The Voice of Passion
    The Voice of Passion
    The Voice of Passion is a 1913 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Greta Almroth - Ruth* John Ekman* Richard Lund - Lander* Victor Sjöström - Daniel Barkner* Ragna Wettergreen - Louise Barkner...

    (Blodets röst) (1913)
  • The Conflicts of Life
    The Conflicts of Life
    The Conflicts of Life is a 1913 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Nils Ahrén - Charles von Barton* Ivar Kåge - Carsten Berner* Richard Lund - Berchtold* Greta Pfeil - Lila* Victor Sjöström - Otto Berner...

    (Livets konflikter) (1913)
  • Ingeborg Holm
    Ingeborg Holm
    Ingeborg Holm is a 1913 Swedish social drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1906 play by Nils Krok. It has been called "the first realistic feature film". It caused great debate in Sweden about social security, which led to changes in the poorhouse laws...

    (Margaret Day) (1913)
  • Half Breed
    Half Breed (film)
    Half Breed is a 1913 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* John Ekman - Ribera* Georg Grönroos* William Larsson - von Wüler* Erik Lindholm* Karin Molander - Narianne Rizetski* Greta Pfeil - Soledad...

    (Halvblod) (1913)
  • The Miracle
    The Miracle (1913 film)
    The Miracle is a 1913 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Carl Borin* John Ekman - Father Prevost* Clara Pontoppidan - Estelle* Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson - Mrs. Gaspard* Carlo Wieth - Armand...

    (Miraklet, Within the Gates) (1913
    1913 in film
    The year 1913 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made.* December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.* D. W...

    )
  • The Poacher (Kärlek starkare än hat eller skogsdotterns hemlighet) (1914)
  • The Clergyman
    The Clergyman
    The Clergyman is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Carl Borin* Egil Eide - Priest* Justus Hagman - Older Priest* William Larsson - Clara's Father* Richard Lund - Estate Owner* Clara Pontoppidan - Maria...

    (Prästen, Saints and Their Sorrows, The Parson) (1914)
  • Judge Not
    Judge Not (film)
    Judge Not is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Nils Ahrén - Helder* Greta Almroth - Clara* Hilda Borgström - Mary* John Ekman - Albert Smith* Nils Elffors* William Larsson - Ruffian...

    (Dömen icke) (1914)
  • The Strike
    The Strike (film)
    The Strike is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Victor Sjöström - Karl Bernsson / Gustav Bernsson* Lilly Jacobson - Gurli Hagberg* John Ekman - Boberg* Carl Borin* Ernst Eklund...

    (Strejken) (1914)
  • A Good Girl Keeps Herself in Good Order
    A Good Girl Keeps Herself in Good Order
    A Good Girl Keeps Herself in Good Order is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Alfred Lundberg - Fellman* Richard Lund - Sven* Clara Pontoppidan - Ruth Landén* Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson - Ruth's Mother...

    (Bra flicka reder sig själv) (1914)
  • Children of the Streets
    Children of the Streets
    Children of the Streets is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Lili Bech - Jenny* Emil Bergendorff* Stina Berg - Guest* Sven Bergvall - Young Journalist* Gustaf Callmén* John Ekman* Gunnar Tolnæs - Karl Sterner...

    (Gatans barn) (1914)
  • Daughter of the Peaks
    Daughter of the Peaks
    Daughter of the Peaks is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Greta Almroth - Waina* Lili Bech - Nurse* John Ekman - Nordman* Arvid Englind - Werner's Friend* William Larsson - Werner's Friend...

    (Högfjällets dotter) (1914)
  • Hearts That Meet
    Hearts That Meet
    Hearts That Meet is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Greta Almroth - Albert's Sister* John Ekman* Alfred Lundberg - Eberling* Richard Lund - Engineer* Karin Molander - Margot...

    (Hjärtan som mötas) (1914
    1914 in film
    The year 1914 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City.* February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.* May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed....

    )
  • One of the Many (En av de många) (1915)
  • Guilt Redeemed
    Guilt Redeemed
    Guilt Redeemed is a 1915 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Lili Bech - Margaret Stensson* Gustaf Callmén - Hennis far, hemmansägare* Carlo Wieth - Hennis bror* John Ekman - Fabrikschef...

    (Sonad skuld) (1915)
  • Det var i maj (1915)
  • The Governor's Daughters (Landshövdingens döttrar, Det var i maj) (1915)
  • Stick to Your Last, Shoemaker (Skomakare, bliv vid din läst) (1915)
  • In the Hour of Trial
    In the Hour of Trial
    In the Hour of Trial is a 1915 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Kotti Chave - Hogardt's Son * Richard Lund - Hogardt* Greta Pfeil - Mrs. Nilsson* Victor Sjöström - Sven Nilsson...

    (I prövningens stund) (1915)
  • The Price of Betrayal
    The Price of Betrayal
    The Price of Betrayal is a 1915 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Gabriel Alw* Stina Berg* Egil Eide - Blom* Kaja Eide - Mrs. Blom* John Ekman - Mr. Holck...

    (Judaspengar) (1915
    1915 in film
    The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.*The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released...

    )
  • The Ships That Meet
    The Ships That Meet
    The Ships That Meet is a 1916 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Lili Bech - Ethel* Egil Eide - John Hall* Mathias Taube - Dr. Hiller* August Warberg - Cramer...

    (Skepp som mötas) (1916)
  • The Sea Vultures
    The Sea Vultures
    The Sea Vultures is a 1916 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Greta Almroth - Gabriele* John Ekman - Birger* Nils Elffors - Anton* Richard Lund - Arnold...

    (Havsgamar, Predators of the Sea) (1916)
  • She Triumphs (Hon segrade) (1916)
  • Kiss of Death
    Kiss of Death (1916 film)
    Kiss of Death is a 1916 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. Approximately 30 minutes of the film survives in the Cinémathèque Française film archive.-Cast:* Victor Sjöström - Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel...

    (Dödskyssen) (1916)
  • Therèse
    Therèse
    Therèse is a 1916 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Lili Bech - Therèse* Josua Bengtsson - Detective* Lars Hanson - Gerhard* Albin Lavén - Rell* Albert Ståhl - Donne* Robert Sterling - Ramb* Mathias Taube - Kembell...

    (1916
    1916 in film
    The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - A Daughter of the Gods released - first US production with a million dollar budget also credited with first ever nude scene by a major star....

    )
  • A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) (1917)
  • The Lass from the Stormy Croft
    The Lass from the Stormy Croft
    The Lass from the Stormy Croft is a 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern to adapt at least...

    (Tösen från Stormyrtorpet, The Girl from the Marsh Croft, The Woman He Chose) (1917
    1917 in film
    The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Foundation of Universum Film AG , as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.*Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced...

    )
  • The Outlaw and His Wife
    The Outlaw and His Wife
    The Outlaw and His Wife is a 1918 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a play from 1911 by Jóhann Sigurjónsson. It tells the story of Eyvind of the Hills, an 18th century Icelandic outlaw....

    (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, Eyvind of the Hills, Love: The Only Law, You and I) (1918
    1918 in film
    The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband....

    )
  • Sons of Ingmar
    Sons of Ingmar
    Sons of Ingmar is a 1919 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the first part of his adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, originally published 1901-1902. It was followed by a second part, Karin, Daughter of Ingmar, the following year...

    (Ingmarssönerna, Dawn of Love) (1919)
  • His Lordship's Last Will
    His Lordship's Last Will
    His Lordship's Last Will is a 1919 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Karl Mantzius - His Lordship* Carl Browallius - Wickberg* Greta Almroth - Blenda...

    (Hans nåds testamente, His Grace's Last Testament, His Grace's Will) (1919
    1919 in film
    The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...

    )
  • The Monastery of Sendomir
    The Monastery of Sendomir
    The Monastery of Sendomir is a 1920 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1828 short story by Franz Grillparzer. It has also been released in the UK as The Secret of the Monastery.-Plot:...

    (Klostret i Sendomir, Secret of the Monastery) (1920)
  • Karin Daughter of Ingmar
    Karin Daughter of Ingmar
    Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel...

    (Karin Ingmarsdotter, God's Way) (1920)
  • A Lover in Pawn
    A Lover in Pawn
    A Lover in Pawn is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Victor Sjöström - Sammel Eneman* Concordia Selander - Mutter Boman* Greta Almroth - Tora* Harald Schwenzen - Knut* Tor Weijden - Sailor...

    (Mästerman) (1920
    1920 in film
    The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1920:*Algol, starring Emil Jannings...

    )
  • The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, The Phantom Chariot, The Stroke of Midnight, Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness) (1921
    1921 in film
    -Events:* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount. A young actress, Virginia Rappe, becomes ill at the...

    )
  • Love's Crucible (Vem dömer, Mortal Clay) (1922)
  • The Surrounded House (Det omringade huset, The House Surrounded) (1922
    1922 in film
    -Events:* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....

    )
  • Fire on Board (Eld ombord, Jealousy, The Hell Ship) (1923
    1923 in film
    -Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:...

    )
  • Name the Man (1924)
  • He Who Gets Slapped
    He Who Gets Slapped
    He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Victor Sjöström. The film is based on the Russian play Tot, kto poluchayet poshchechini by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was published in 1914 and in English, as He Who Gets Slapped, in...

    (1924
    1924 in film
    -Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

    )
  • Confessions of a Queen
    Confessions of a Queen
    Confessions of a Queen is a 1925 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon a novel by Alphonse Daudet, Les Rois en Exil. Only an incomplete print of the film survives.-Plot:...

    (1925)
  • The Tower of Lies
    The Tower of Lies
    The Tower of Lies is a 1925 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon Selma Lagerlöf's novel Kejsarn av Portugallien en Värmlandsberättelse/The Emperor of Portugallia. Released one year after He Who Gets Slapped, the film marks the second collaboration between Sjöström, Lon Chaney and Norma...

    (1925
    1925 in film
    -Top grossing films :-Films released in 1925:*El Húsar de la muerte, starring and directed by Pedro Sienna.*The Battleship Potemkin*Ben-Hur, starring Ramon Novarro....

    )
  • The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)
    The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. Louis B. Mayer was reluctant on using Miss Gish, fearing opposition from church groups. The film was announced as "It's a real 'A' picture", taking advantage of the 'A' for Adultery, and proved a box office success...

    (1926
    1926 in film
    -Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....

    )
  • The Divine Woman
    The Divine Woman
    The Divine Woman is a 1928 American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film...

    (1928)
  • The Masks of the Devil (1928)
  • The Wind
    The Wind
    The Wind is an American dramatic silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough...

    (1928
    1928 in film
    -Events:Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....

    )
  • A Lady to Love (1930)
  • Väter und Söhne (Das Geheimnis der Ehe) (1930
    1930 in film
    -Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:*Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal Studios*Best Actress: Norma Shearer - The Divorcee*Best Actor: George Arliss - Disraeli...

    )
  • Markurells of Wadköping (Markurells i Wadköping, Father and Son, Vater und Sohn) (1931
    1931 in film
    -Academy Awards:*Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM*Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul*Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ*Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*Best Actress: Marie Dressler - Min and Bill...

    )
  • Under the Red Robe
    Under the Red Robe
    Under the Red Robe is an 1894 novel by Stanley J. Weyman, which has also been made into a 1937 British swashbuckler film, set in France around the time of Cardinal Richelieu ....

    (1937
    1937 in film
    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events.- Events :*April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US.*May 7 - Shall We Dance premieres in the US.-Top grossing films:#Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs#Maytime#Saratoga...

    )


As actor

  • Terje Vigen (A Man There Was, 1917) as Terje Vigen
  • Thomas Graals bästa barn (Thomas Graal's First Child 1918) as Thomas Graal
  • Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriag, 1921) as David Holm
  • Till glädje
    To Joy (film)
    To Joy is a 1950 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman about a young married couple who play together in a Swedish orchestra.-Cast:* Maj-Britt Nilsson - Marta Olsson* Stig Olin - Stig Eriksson* Birger Malmsten - Marcel* John Ekman - Mikael Bro...

    (To Joy, 1950
    1950 in film
    The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
    ...

    , directed by Ingmar Bergman), as professor Sönderby
  • Smultronstället
    Wild Strawberries (film)
    Wild Strawberries is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish title is Smultronstället, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem of a place...

    (Wild Strawberries, 1957
    1957 in film
    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
    ...

    , directed by Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work often dealt with themes such as bleakness and despair, as well as comedy and hope, in his cinematic exploration of the human condition...

    ), as professor Isak Borg

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