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Victor Sjöström is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Suédois born on 21 september 1879 at Årjäng Municipality (Suede)

Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström
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Birth name Victor David Sjöström
Nationality Suede
Birth 21 september 1879 at Årjäng Municipality (Suede)
Death 3 january 1960 (at 80 years) at Stockholm (Suede)
Awards National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

Victor David Sjöström ([ˈvɪktɔɾ ˈɧœˈstɾœm]; in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a 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). Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).

Biography

Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf 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. 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. 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 to work in the United States. 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 novel, The Master of Man. 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 films before his final directing effort in 1937, an English language drama filmed in the United Kingdom Under the Red Robe. 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 company. At age 78 he gave his final acting performance, probably his best remembered, as the elderly professor in Ingmar Bergman's film Wild Strawberries (1957).

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

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Filmography of Victor Sjöström (53 films)

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Actor

Wild Strawberries, 1h31
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Jullan Kindahl
Roles Professor Isak Borg
Rating80% 4.049994.049994.049994.049994.04999
Grouchy, stubborn and egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who specialized in bacteriology. Before specializing he served as general practitioner in rural Sweden. He sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded the degree of Doctor Jubilaris 50 years after he received his doctorate from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband, Evald, Isak's only son, who does not want her to have the baby, their first.
To Joy
To Joy (1950)
, 1h38
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten, Victor Sjöström, John Ekman, Erland Josephson
Roles Sönderby
Rating71% 3.595323.595323.595323.595323.59532
Stig et Martha sont tous deux violonistes dans l'orchestre dirigé par le vieux Sönderby. Ils se marient mais l'ambition de Stig est débordante et son orgueil démesuré. Les accrocs rencontrés dans la vie du ménage, son incapacité à embrasser une carrière de soliste le rendent amer. Il fréquente Mikael Bro, un vieil ami noceur qui forme avec sa femme Nelly un couple sulfureux.
The Word
The Word (1943)
, 1h48
Directed by Gustaf Molander
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Victor Sjöström, Rune Lindström, Holger Löwenadler, Stig Olin, Wanda Rothgardt, Gunn Wållgren
Roles Knut Borg Sr.
Rating70% 3.5227853.5227853.5227853.5227853.522785
L'action se déroule au sein d'une famille de fermiers luthériens dans la province du Jutland (Danemark). Knut Borg, le patriarche, y règne en maître incontesté. L'un de ses fils, Johannes, devrait devenir pasteur. Lors d'un accident automobile, sa fiancée est mortellement atteinte et il tente de la ressusciter. En vain... Il bascule, depuis, dans une folie d'ordre mystique. Mais, plus tard, il parvient à faire renaître Inger, la femme de l'un de ses frères, morte durant l'accouchement d'un troisième enfant...
The Phantom Carriage, 1h33
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Ghost films
Actors Hilda Borgström, Victor Sjöström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Nils Ahrén, Mona Geijer-Falkner
Roles David Holm
Rating79% 3.9967353.9967353.9967353.9967353.996735
On New Year's Eve, dying Salvation Army Sister Edit has one last wish: to speak with David Holm. David, a drunkard, is sitting in a graveyard, telling his two drinking buddies about his old friend Georges, who told him about the legend that the last person to die each year has to drive Death's carriage and collect the souls of everybody who dies the following year. Georges himself died on New Year's Eve the previous year.
Sons of Ingmar, 2h35
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Actors Victor Sjöström, Harriet Bosse, Tore Svennberg, Harry Ahlin, Hugo Björne, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Roles Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson
Rating71% 3.599113.599113.599113.599113.59911
Brita, une jeune paysanne, terrorisée à l'idée de porter un enfant illégitime, s'enfuit afin de se donner la mort. Mais, au moment de se précipiter du haut d'une falaise, une femme intervient et la sauve. Plus tard, elle se retrouve emprisonnée pour avoir tué l'enfant mis au monde. Son fiancé, Lill Ingmar, un humble laboureur, demande conseil à ses ancêtres : il gravit une échelle géante pour atteindre les voies célestes. On lui conseille de pardonner la faute de la jeune femme et de l'épouser ensuite. À l'expiration de sa peine, Lill Ingmar vient chercher Britt à la maison d'arrêt et entame une nouvelle vie à ses côtés.
The Outlaw and His Wife, 2h16
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Victor Sjöström, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson, Nils Ahrén, William Larsson, Sigurd Wallén
Roles Ejvind a.k.a. Kári
Rating71% 3.5951253.5951253.5951253.5951253.595125
A man who calls himself Kári is offered a job by a wealthy widow named Halla. Eventually they fall in love, but one day in church a man recognizes Kári as his true identity - the escaped criminal Eyvind of the Hills. Eyvind has to flee to the highlands, and Halla decides to go with him. There they have a child and live happily in love, providing food by hunting and fishing, until one day when Eyvind's old friend Arnas appears, also an outlaw, and falls in love with Halla too. Other people are conspiring to get rid of the criminal as well, and the living conditions for Eyvind and Halla start to become worse and worse.
Thomas Graal's Best Child, 1h35
Directed by Mauritz Stiller
Origin Suede
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson, Edvin Adolphson, Hugo Björne
Roles Thomas Graal
Rating62% 3.1266553.1266553.1266553.1266553.126655
Thomas et Bessie, fraîchement mariés, n'arrivent pas à tomber d'accord sur l'éducation que devrait recevoir leur premier enfant.
A Man There Was, 58minutes
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Victor Sjöström, Eric Abrahamsson, William Larsson, John Ekman, Emil Fjellström, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Roles Terje Vigen
Rating72% 3.642563.642563.642563.642563.64256
Terje Vigen lives happily with his wife and little girl on a small island in Norway. In 1809, because of the English blockade, poor people start starving and he decides to row to Denmark to bring food to his family. On the way back, he is captured by a ruthless English captain and sent to jail in England. When he was finally freed in 1814 and can return home, he finds that his wife and daughter have died. He takes up a solitary life in his house overlooking the sea. One night he sees a British yacht in distress in a storm. He rushed to her help and discovers that the skipper is the same man that had taken him prisoner and broken his life many years before.
Kiss of Death, 58minutes
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Victor Sjöström, Wanda Rothgardt, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson, Alfred Lundberg
Roles Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel
Rating60% 3.04943.04943.04943.04943.0494
The Strike
The Strike (1915)
, 1h18
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Actors Victor Sjöström, John Ekman, Alfred Lundberg, Ernst Eklund, Richard Lund
Roles Karl Bernsson / Gustav Bernsson

In the Hour of Trial, 41minutes
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Actors Victor Sjöström, Richard Lund
Roles Sven Nilsson