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Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant garde, visionary director of the silent era. His masterpiece adaptation of Frank Norris's McTeague titled Greed is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights issues, Stroheim was banned for life as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema. For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors. He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema. He died in 1957 in France of prostate cancer at the age of 71. Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists known as Letterists, he was honored by Letterist Maurice Lemaître with a 70-minute 1979 film entitled "Erich von Stroheim."
Birth Name
Erich Oswald Stroheim
Born
Tuesday, 22 September 1885
Died
Sunday, 12 May 1957
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Zeroville | Self | 2019 |
These Amazing Shadows | Max Von Mayerling (clip from Sunset Boulevard (1950)) | 2011 |
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass | (archive footage) | 2008 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries | Self | 2007 |
To Each His Own Cinema | (segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") | 2007 |
Edge of Outside | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2006 |
Billy Wilder Speaks | Self | 2006 |
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | (archive footage) | 2005 |
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies | Count Sergius Karamzin | 1994 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Zeroville | Self | 2019 |
These Amazing Shadows | Max Von Mayerling (clip from Sunset Boulevard (1950)) | 2011 |
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass | (archive footage) | 2008 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries | Self | 2007 |
To Each His Own Cinema | (segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") | 2007 |
Edge of Outside | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2006 |
Billy Wilder Speaks | Self | 2006 |
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | (archive footage) | 2005 |
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies | Count Sergius Karamzin | 1994 |
Hollywood Mavericks | Self | 1990 |
Travelling avant | Self in 'La danse de mort' | 1987 |
American Masters | Self | 1986 |
Detective | Arthur von Furst | 1985 |
Hollywood | Self / Actor ' Heart of Humanity' | 1980 |
The Man You Loved to Hate | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 1979 |
Fractured Flickers | Erich Von Stucker | 1963 |
La madone des sleepings | Dr. Siegfried Traurig / Dr Siefgried Traurig | 1955 |
Napoleon | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1955 |
The Infiltrator | Sacha Zavaroff | 1955 |
Alerte au sud | Conrad Nagel | 1953 |
Panorama | Self - Interviewee | 1953 |
Orient Express | Man / Karmesin / Jovanovitch / The Banker | 1953 |
The Other Side of Paradise | William O'Hara | 1953 |
Midnight... Quai de Bercy | Le professeur Kieffer | 1953 |
Alraune | Jacob ten Brinken | 1952 |
Sunset Boulevard | Max von Mayerling | 1950 |
Sunset Blvd. | Max Von Mayerling | 1950 |
Portrait of a Killer | Eric | 1949 |
Le signal rouge | Le docteur Mathias Berthold / Mathias Berthold | 1949 |
La danse de mort | Edgar | 1948 |
Devil and the Angel | Frank Davis | 1946 |
One Does Not Die That Way | Eric von Berg | 1946 |
The Mask of Diijon | Diijon | 1946 |
Scotland Yard Investigator | Carl Hoffmeyer | 1945 |
The Great Flamarion | The Great Flamarion | 1945 |
Storm Over Lisbon | Deresco | 1944 |
The Lady and the Monster | Prof. Franz Mueller | 1944 |
The North Star | Dr. von Harden | 1943 |
Five Graves to Cairo | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | 1943 |
Gambling Hell | Werner von Krall | 1942 |
So Ends Our Night | Brenner | 1941 |
I Was an Adventuress | Andre Desormeaux | 1940 |
Thunder Over Paris | Korlick | 1940 |
Threats | Le professeur Hoffman | 1940 |
Personal Column | Pears / Pears, l'ex-couturier | 1939 |
Immediate Call | Captain Stanley Wells | 1939 |
The World Will Shake | Emil Lasser / Monsieur Frank | 1939 |
Derrière la façade | Eric | 1939 |
It Happened in Gibraltar | Marson / Eric Marson | 1938 |
Ultimatum | General Simovic | 1938 |
La vie des artistes | Self | 1938 |
Boys' School | Walter - prof d'anglais / Walter, le professeur d'anglais | 1938 |
The Lafarge Case | Denis | 1938 |
Les pirates du rail | Tchou King | 1938 |
The Alibi | Le professeur Winckler / Winckler | 1937 |
Under Secret Orders | Col. W. Mathesius / Simonis | 1937 |
La Grande Illusion | Le captaine von Rauffenstein | 1937 |
Marthe Richard | Le baron Erich von Ludow / van Ludlow | 1937 |
The Crime of Doctor Crespi | Dr. Andre Crespi | 1935 |
Crimson Romance | Capt. Wolters | 1934 |
Fugitive Road | Hauptmann Oswald Von Traunsee / Hpt. Oswald Von Traunsee | 1934 |
As You Desire Me | Carl Salter | 1932 |
The Lost Squadron | Arthur Von Furst | 1932 |
Friends and Lovers | Victor Sangrito | 1931 |
Three Faces East | Valdar / Schiller Blecher / Schiller / Blecher | 1930 |
The Great Gabbo | The Great Gabbo / Gabbo | 1929 |
The Wedding March | Prince Nickolas von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg / Nicki / Prince Nickolas | 1928 |
1925 Studio Tour | Self - a Director / Self | 1925 |
Greed | Balloon Vendor | 1925 |
Souls for Sables | Himself - Celebrity Director | 1923 |
Souls for Sale | Erich von Stroheim / Himself - Celebrity Director | 1923 |
C-V News: Filming Greed | Self | 1923 |
Foolish Wives | Count Sergius Karamzin - Capt. 3rd Hussars Imper. Russian Army / Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin | 1922 |
Blind Husbands | Lt. Erich von Steuben / The Other Man - Lt. Erich von Steuben | 1919 |
The Fall of Babylon | A Pharisee | 1919 |
The Heart of Humanity | Eric von Eberhard | 1919 |
The Hun Within | Von Bickel | 1918 |
Hearts of the World | A Hun / A German Officer | 1918 |
The Unbeliever | Lt. Kurt von Schnieditz / Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz | 1918 |
Sylvia of the Secret Service | Peter | 1917 |
Reaching for the Moon | Prince Badinoff's Aide | 1917 |
Draft 258 | 1917 | |
For France | Undetermined Role | 1917 |
In Again, Out Again | Officer | 1917 |
Panthea | Lieutenant of Police / Lieutenant | 1917 |
Intolerance | Second Pharisee | 1916 |
The Social Secretary | The Buzzard | 1916 |
The Flying Torpedo | Accomplice | 1916 |
His Picture in the Papers | One of the Weazels | 1916 |
Ghosts | The School Clerk / School Clerk | 1915 |
Captain Macklin | Officer on Horseback | 1915 |
The Country Boy | Diner in Restaurant | 1915 |
Ghosts | School Clerk | 1915 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Fugitive Road | 1934 |
Hello, Sister! | 1933 |
Queen Kelly | 1932 |
The Great Gabbo | 1929 |
The Wedding March | 1928 |
The Merry Widow | 1926 |
Greed | 1925 |
Merry-Go-Round | 1923 |
Foolish Wives | 1922 |
The Devil's Passkey | 1920 |
Blind Husbands | 1919 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Queen Kelly | 1932 |
The Wedding March | 1928 |
The Merry Widow | 1926 |
Blind Husbands | 1919 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1951 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1951 | Golden Globe | Best Supporting Actor | Nominated |