Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström was born on 20 September 1879 in Silbodal, in Värmland. His parents emigrated to New York the following year, and he returned to Sweden, to relatives, after his mother's death. A stage actor from the age of seventeen, he made his first film in 1912 and became, with Mauritz Stiller, the great figure of Swedish silent cinema. From 1923 to 1930 he directed nine films in Hollywood, where he directed Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo. Back in Sweden, he worked mainly as an actor, and in 1957, at the age of seventy-eight, played the lead in a film by Ingmar Bergman. He died in Stockholm on 3 January 1960.

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• CinemaThe Phantom CarriageKörkarlenVictor Sjöström · 1921Cinema