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Filmmaker · Sweden

Mauritz Stiller

Died in 1928

Mauritz Stiller was born in Helsinki on 17 July 1883, into a Jewish family that had come from the Russian empire. Orphaned at the age of four, he was raised by a tailor. He began on the stages of Helsinki and Turku and then, evading service in the Russian army, made his way to Sweden, where he was an actor and stage director before entering cinema in 1912. With Sjöström, a master of the silent cinema of his adopted country, he was called to Hollywood in 1925 with the young actress he had discovered, was then removed from his shoots, returned to Sweden and died in Stockholm on 8 November 1928, aged forty-five.

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