Victor Sjöström

from Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden

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Biography

Victor David Sjöström (20 September 1879 – 3 January 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).

Timeline

1995Aged 116

  • Poster for Stjärnbilder

    (archive footage)

1993Aged 114

  • Poster for Minns ni?

    (archive footage)

1986Aged 107

  • Poster for Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

    Self (archive footage)

1981Aged 102

  • Poster for Victor Sjöström - A Portrait

    (Unknown)

1957Aged 78

  • Poster for Wild Strawberries

    Professor Isak Borg

  • Poster for Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries

    Self

1955Aged 76

  • Poster for Männen i mörker

    Gustaf Landberg

1952Aged 73

  • Poster for Hård klang

    Klaus Willenhart

  • Poster for Love

    (Unknown)

1950Aged 71

  • Poster for To Joy

    Sönderby

  • Poster for The Quartet That Split Up

    Gustaf Borg

1949Aged 70

  • Poster for Farlig vår

    Antique Dealer Bladh

1948Aged 69

  • Poster for Jag är med eder...

    (Unknown)

1947Aged 68

  • Poster for Railroad Workers

    Stora Ballong

1946Aged 67

  • Poster for Crisis

    Producer

1944Aged 65

  • Poster for The Emperor of Portugallia

    Jan i Skrolycka

  • Poster for Torment

    Producer

1943Aged 64

  • Poster for There's a Fire Burning

    Henrik Falkman

  • Poster for Ordet

    Knut Borg Sr.

1941Aged 62

  • Poster for The Fight Continues

    Andreas Berg

1939Aged 60

  • Poster for Gubben kommer

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Mot nya tider

    Hjalmar Branting

1937Aged 58

  • Poster for The Great John Ericsson

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Under the Red Robe

    Director

1935Aged 56

  • Poster for Walpurgis Night

    Frederik Bergström

1934Aged 55

  • Poster for Synnöve Solbakken

    Sämund Granliden

1931Aged 52

1930Aged 51

  • Poster for A Lady to Love

    Producer

  • Poster for Every Woman's Longing

    Director

  • Poster for Father and Son

    Director

1928Aged 49

  • Poster for The Divine Woman

    Director

  • Poster for The Wind

    Director

  • Poster for The Masks of the Devil

    Director

1927Aged 48

  • Poster for The Scarlet Letter

    Producer

1925Aged 46

  • Poster for 1925 Studio Tour

    Self

  • Poster for Confessions of a Queen

    Director

  • Poster for The Tower of Lies

    Director

1924Aged 45

  • Poster for Name the Man

    Director

  • Poster for He Who Gets Slapped

    Adaptation

1923Aged 44

  • Poster for The Hell Ship

    Dick

1922Aged 43

  • Poster for The House Surrounded

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Love's Crucible

    Writer

1921Aged 42

  • Poster for The Phantom Carriage

    David Holm

1920Aged 41

  • Poster for Karin, Daughter of Ingmar

    Stor Ingmar

  • Poster for A Lover in Pawn

    Sammel Eneman

  • Poster for The Monastery of Sendomir

    Writer

1919Aged 40

  • Poster for Sons of Ingmar

    Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson

  • Poster for His Grace’s Will

    Writer

1918Aged 39

  • Poster for The Outlaw and His Wife

    Outlaw / Kári

  • Poster for Thomas Graal's Best Child

    Thomas Graal

1917Aged 38

1916Aged 37

1915Aged 36

1914Aged 35

1913Aged 34

1912Aged 33

  • Poster for The Gardener

    Trädgårdsmästaren

  • Poster for The Black Masks

    Von Mühlen - Löjtnant

  • Poster for The Springtime of Life

    Cyril Alm

  • Poster for A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession

    Screenplay

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