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Stroheim is perhaps best known as an actor for his role as Rauffenstein in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) and as Max von Mayerling in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950). For the latter film, which also starred Gloria Swanson, Stroheim was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor .
Sep 18, 2024 · Erich von Stroheim was one of the most critically respected motion-picture directors of the 20th century, best known for the uncompromising realism and accuracy of detail in his films. He also wrote screenplays and won recognition as an actor, notably for roles as sadistic, monocled Prussian.
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Erich von Stroheim. Actor: Sunset Boulevard. Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.
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Sep 26, 2022 · Where to begin with Erich von Stroheim. A beginner’s path through the work of one of cinema’s most notorious director-geniuses, whose staggeringly ambitious projects were infamously curbed by Hollywood.
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By von STROHEIM: books—
Paprika, New York, 1935. Les Feux de la Saint-Jean: Veronica(Part 1), Givors, France, 1951. Les Feux de la Saint-Jean: Constanzia(Part 2), Givors, France, 1954; reissued 1967. Poto-Poto, Paris, 1956. Greed(full screenplay), Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, 1958.
By von STROHEIM: articles—
Interviews, in Motion Picture(New York), August 1920, October 1921, May 1922, September 1923, and April 1927. "Charges against Him and His Reply," with C. Belfrage, in MotionPicture Classic(Brooklyn), June 1930. "My Own Story," in Film Weekly(London), April/May 1935. "Stroheim in London," with Karel Reisz, in Sight and Sound(London), April/June 1954. "Erich von Stroheim," in Interviews with Film Directors, edited by Andrew Sarris, New York, 1967. "Citizen Kane," in Positif(Paris), March 1968...
On von STROHEIM: books—
Atasceva, P., and V. Korolevitch, Erich von Stroheim, Moscow, 1927. Drinkwater, John, The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle, New York, 1931. Fronval, Georges, Erich von Stroheim, sa vie, ses films, Paris, 1939. Noble, Peter, Hollywood Scapegoat: The Biography of Erich vonStroheim, London, 1951. Bergut, Bob, Erich von Stroheim, Paris, 1960. Barna, Jan, Erich von Stroheim, Vienna, 1966. Gobeil, Charlotte, editor, Hommage à Erich vonStroheim, Ottawa, 1966. Ciment, Michel, Erich von Stroheim, P...
Writing elaborate scripts and unfilmed backstories, von Stroheim became known for an exacting, at times totalitarian, directorship with long, rigorous shoots and obsessive attention to detail – down to the type of wristwatch an actor wore.
Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was a multifaceted Austrian-American actor, director, and writer known for his contributions to cinema during the silent film era.
