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Victor David Sjöström (Swedish: [ˈvɪ̌kːtɔr ˈɧø̂ːstrœm] ⓘ; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), also 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 ...
Victor Sjöström. Actor: Wild Strawberries. Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of directors whom he himself influenced. As a boy Sjöström was close to his mother, who...
Victor David Sjöström, född 20 september 1879 i Högerud i Silbodals socken i Värmland, [1] död 3 januari 1960 i Hedvig Eleonora församling i Stockholm, var en svensk skådespelare, regissör och manusförfattare.Sjöström kom jämte Mauritz Stiller att bli den svenska stumfilmens ledande gestalt. Bland hans många berömda filmer märks Selma Lagerlöf-filmatiseringarna Ingmarssönerna (1919) och Körkarlen (1921). Sjöström arbetade 1923–1930 som regissör i Hollywood, vid Metro ...
Victor Sjöström (born Sept. 20, 1879, Silbodal, Swed.—died Jan. 3, 1960, Stockholm) was a motion-picture actor and director who contributed significantly to the international preeminence of the Swedish silent film in the post-World War I era. Influenced by the novels of Selma Lagerlöf, whose art is rooted in sagas and folklore and imbued with a reverence for nature, Sjöström’s films were lyrically beautiful expressions of man’s relationship to nature and to society.. Trained as a ...
About Sjöström . Born Viktor David Sjöström on 20 September 1879 in Värmland in the west of Sweden, Sjöström emigrated with his family to America (Brooklyn, New York) in 1880 where his father, Olof, who had struggled in Sweden, built up a successful shipping agency in New York.
Victor Sjöström. Actor: Wild Strawberries. Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of directors whom he himself influenced. As a boy Sjöström was close to his mother, who...
Victor Sjöström (1879-1960), or Victor Seastrom as he was known during his Hollywood career, was undoubtedly one of the most renowned silent film directors. Focusing on his masterpieces such as 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The Wind', but also including films he had made in Sweden before moving to Hollywood, as well as film fragments and films considered lost, Florin analyses Sjöström's austere and naturalistic style and the transformations it underwent during his Hollywood years.
Victor Sjöström Filmography. A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of implacable Captain Steen.
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.
Victor Sjöström (1879–1960) was an up-and-coming stage actor and director in Sweden's provincial theaters when, in 1912, he was offered a contract as chief director for Charles Magnusson's emerging film company. He had absolutely no experience with film-but the bet on Sjöström paid off. Within the next decade, Magnusson's Swedish Biograph Company (with Sjöström, fellow
