Victor Sjöström
Directing

Victor Sjöström

Born 21 September 1879 · Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden · Died 3 January 1960

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

Known for

Wild Strawberries
The Phantom Carriage
The Wind
He Who Gets Slapped
Crisis
Torment
A Man There Was
To Joy
The Outlaw and His Wife
Ingeborg Holm
The Scarlet Letter
The Gardener
Wild Strawberries
Männen i mörker
Love
Hård klang
To Joy
The Quartet That Split Up
Farlig vår
Jag är med eder...
Railroad Workers
Crisis
The Emperor of Portugallia
Torment
Ordet
There's a Fire Burning
The Fight Continues
Mot nya tider
Gubben kommer
The Great John Ericsson
Under the Red Robe
Walpurgis Night
Synnöve Solbakken
Father and Son
Scattered Pages
A Lady to Love
Father and Son
Every Woman's Longing
The Wind
The Divine Woman
The Masks of the Devil
The Scarlet Letter
The Tower of Lies
Confessions of a Queen
He Who Gets Slapped
Name the Man
The Hell Ship
The House Surrounded
Love's Crucible
The Phantom Carriage
A Lover in Pawn
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
The Monastery of Sendomir
Sons of Ingmar
His Grace’s Will
The Outlaw and His Wife
Thomas Graal's Best Child
A Man There Was
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Kiss of Death
The Sea Vultures
The Strike
The Price of Betrayal
The Governor's Daughters
One of the Many
Daughter of the Highlands
Saints and Sorrows
A Good Girl Fends for Herself
Hearts That Meet
Children of the Streets
Judge Not
Halfbreed
The Child
The Voice of Passion
The Vampire
When Love Kills
Ingeborg Holm
The Gardener
The Springtime of Life
The Black Masks
A Secret Marriage or The Deathbed Confession
Victor Sjöström · Midrow