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Victor Sjöström (Victor David Sjöström) was born on 20 September, 1879 in Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden, is a Director, Actor, Writer. Discover Victor Sjöström's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of Victor Sjöström networth?

Popular As Victor David Sjöström
Occupation director,actor,writer
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 20 September, 1879
Birthday 20 September
Birthplace Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden
Date of death 3 January, 1960
Died Place Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Nationality Sweden

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Victor Sjöström Height, Weight & Measurements

At 81 years old, Victor Sjöström height is 5' 11" (1.8 m) .

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Height 5' 11" (1.8 m)
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Who Is Victor Sjöström's Wife?

His wife is Edith Erastoff (22 January 1922 - 17 April 1945) ( her death) ( 2 children), Lili Beck (1913 - 1916) ( divorced), Alexandra Stjagoff (26 July 1900 - 1912) ( divorced)

Family
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Wife Edith Erastoff (22 January 1922 - 17 April 1945) ( her death) ( 2 children), Lili Beck (1913 - 1916) ( divorced), Alexandra Stjagoff (26 July 1900 - 1912) ( divorced)
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Victor Sjöström Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Victor Sjöström worth at the age of 81 years old? Victor Sjöström’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from Sweden. We have estimated Victor Sjöström's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Director

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1957

In his later years he was a mentor to Ingmar Bergman and gave a remarkable performance in Bergman's masterpiece "Wild Strawberries" (1957), for which he won the National Board of Review's Best Actor Award. In his professional life he was a workaholic, and in his private life was reticent about his films and his fame and remained intensely devoted to his wife Edith Erastoff and his family.

1930

He departed Hollywood for Sweden after A Lady to Love (1930), returning one last time to helm Under the Red Robe (1937) for 20th Century-Fox, and although he made two movies in Sweden in the intervening years, his career as a director basically ended with the sound era.

He returned to his first avocation, acting in Swedish films, in the 1930s, '40s and '50s.

1928

He was masterful at eliciting sensitive performances from actresses, such as that of Lillian Gish in his American classic The Wind (1928). The teenaged Sjöström loved the theater, but after his education he turned to business, becoming a donut salesman. Fortunately for the future of Swedish cinema, he was a flop as a salesman, and turned to the theater, becoming an actor and then director.

1926

Sjöström became one of the most highly paid directors in Hollywood, reaching his peak at the end of the silent era (when the silent film reached its maturation as an art form) with two collaborations with Lillian Gish: The Scarlet Letter (1926) and "The Wind" (1926), his last masterpiece.

1924

"Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness") was an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, and Goldwyn Pictures hired him to direct Name the Man! (1924) (Goldwayn was folded into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, where he worked until shortly after the advent of sound). Sjöström's name was changed to "Victor Seastrom" (a phonetic pronunciation in a country with limited word fonts), and he became a major American director, a pro-to David Lean, who was renowned for balancing artistic expression with a concern for what would play at the box office.

His first MGM film was the Lon Chaney melodrama He Who Gets Slapped (1924). It was not only a critical success but a huge hit, getting the new studio off onto a sound footing. He was highly respected by MGM chief Louis B. Mayer and by production head Irving Thalberg, who shared Sjöström's concerns with art that did not exclude profit.

1920

His 1920 film The Phantom Carriage (1921) (a. k. a.

1918

He and Edith Erastoff were lovers on- and off-screen. She was pregnant with his daughter while they were filming The Outlaw and His Wife (1918). They married in 1922, after having to wait five years for her divorce.

1913

He directed Ingeborg Holm (1913), considered the first classic of Swedish cinema. Despite the exigencies of working in an industrial art form, most Svenska Bio films of this period are embarrassments in an artistic sense--turgid melodramas, absurd romances and shaggy dog-style comedies--and there is no reason to think that the director didn't helm his share of such fare. Even taking that into account, Sjöström managed to develop a personal style. The reason he became internationally famous (and wooed by Hollywood) was the richness of his films, which were full of psychological subtleties and natural symbolism that was integrated into the works as a whole. He dealt with such major themes as guilt, redemption and the rapidly evolving place of women in society.

1912

The Swedish film company Svenska Bio hired him and fellow stage director Mauritz Stiller to helm pictures, and from 1912-15 he directed 31 films. Only three of them survive (it is estimated that approximately 150,000 films, or 80% of the total silent-era production, has been lost).

1890

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1022-1030. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

1879

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 died during childbirth when he was seven years old. Biographers see this truncated relationship as being essential to the evolution of his dramatic trope of strong-willed, independent women in his films.

1844

His mother was actress Sofia Elisabeth Hartman, born 7 May 1844 in Stockholm.

1841

His father was businessman Olof Adolf Sjöström, born 4 February 1841, in Ljustorp, Västernorrlands län. In 1880 he emigrated to the US, followed soon by the rest of the family. His wife died in New York in 1886, and in 1895 he married the 22-years-younger Maria Lovisa Olsson, just before returning to Sweden. He died destitute in Stockholm on 21 May 1896.

1839

His uncle was a leading actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm during the latter part of the 19th century: Victor Hartman (1839-1898).