Victor Sjöström Net Worth

Victor Sjöström was a Swedish film director, actor, and writer who is considered the father of Swedish film and one of the masters of world cinema. His influence is still seen in the works of Ingmar Bergman and other directors. Sjöström was close to his mother, who died when he was seven, and this relationship is seen in his films which often feature strong-willed, independent women. After a failed career as a donut salesman, Sjöström turned to the theater and became an actor and director. He directed 31 films from 1912-15, of which only three survive. His 1920 film Körkarlen was an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, and he was hired by Goldwyn Pictures to direct Name the Man in 1924. He was highly respected by MGM and became one of the most highly paid directors in Hollywood, directing The Scarlet Letter and The Wind in 1926. After A Lady to Love in 1930, he returned to Sweden and acted in films in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. He was a mentor to Ingmar Bergman and gave a remarkable performance in Bergman's Wild Strawberries in 1957. Victor Sjöström died on January 3, 1960, at the age of 80.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it?	Director, Actor, Writer
Birth Day	September 20, 1879
Birth Place	Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden, Sweden
Age	140 YEARS OLD
Died On	3 January 1960(1960-01-03) (aged 80)\nStockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birth Sign	Libra
Spouse(s)	Alexandra Stjagoff (1900–1912) Lili Bech (1914–1916) Edith Erastoff (1922–1945)
Parent(s)	Olof Adolf Sjöström (1841–1896)
Awards	NBR Award for Best Actor 1958 Wild Strawberries

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

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Biography/Timeline

1886

Born in Årjäng/Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886. Sjöström returned to Sweden where he lived with relatives in Stockholm, beginning his acting career at 17 as a member of a touring theater company.

1912

Drawn from the stage to the fledgling motion picture industry, he made his first film in 1912 under the direction of Mauritz Stiller. Between then and 1923, he directed another forty-one films in Sweden, some of which are now lost. Those surviving include The Sons of Ingmar (1919), Karin, Daughter of Ingmar (1920) and The Phantom Carriage (1921), all based on stories by the Nobel Prize–winning Novelist Selma Lagerlöf. Many of his films from the period are marked by subtle character portrayal, fine storytelling and evocative settings in which the Swedish landscape often plays a key psychological role. The naturalistic quality of his films was enhanced by his (then revolutionary) preference for on-location filming, especially in rural and village settings. He is also noted as a pioneer of continuity editing in narrative filmmaking.

1920

In the 1920s Sjöström accepted an offer from Louis B. Mayer to work in the United States. In Sweden, he had acted in his own films as well as in those for others, but in Hollywood he devoted himself solely to directing. In 1924, using an anglicised name, Victor Seastrom, he made Name the Man, a dramatic film based on the Hall Caine novel, The Master of Man. He went on to direct great stars of the day such as Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish, Lon Chaney, and Norma Shearer in another eight films in America before his first talkie in 1930.

1937

Uncomfortable with the modifications needed to direct talking films, Victor Sjöström returned to Sweden where he directed two more films before his final directing effort in 1937, an English language drama filmed in the United Kingdom Under the Red Robe. Over the following fifteen years, Sjöström returned to acting in the theatre, performed a variety of leading roles in more than a dozen films and worked as Director of the Svensk Film Industri company. At age 78 he gave his final acting performance, probably his best remembered, as the elderly professor Isaak Borg in Ingmar Bergman's film Wild Strawberries (1957).

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