(in the United States sometimes known as
Victor Seastrom) (20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
,
screenwriterScreenwriters 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 directorA 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' 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
SwedenSweden , 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 SjöströmOlof 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 StillerMauritz Stiller was a Finnish Jewish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
.
(in the United States sometimes known as
Victor Seastrom) (20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
,
screenwriterScreenwriters 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 directorA 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' 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
SwedenSweden , 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 SjöströmOlof 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 StillerMauritz 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 LagerlöfSelma 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. MayerLouis 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 StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. 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 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 GarboGreta Garbo was a Swedish actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age....
,
John GilbertJohn 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 GishLillian 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 ChaneyLon 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 ShearerEdith 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 KingdomThe 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 RobeUnder 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 IndustriAB 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 BergmanErnst 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 StrawberriesWild 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 begravningsplatsenNorra 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 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 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...
(1912The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) (1913The 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) (1914The 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 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 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 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) (1915The 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 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 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 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 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...
(1916The 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 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) (1917The 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 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) (1918The 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 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 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) (1919The 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 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 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 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) (1920The 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
-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
-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
-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 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-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 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 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-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 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-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 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 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-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
-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
-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 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 ....
(1937The 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 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, 1950The 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 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, 1957The 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 BergmanErnst 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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