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Erich von Stroheim
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed, originally over nine hours long, was edited against his wishes to about two-and-a-half hours; despite initial negative reception, the theatrical release is considered one of the greatest…
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entertainment · Austrian-American actor and director (1885–1957) · film director · actor · screenwriter · film actor · film producer · costume designer · director · writer · producer · also Erich von Stroheim, Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim, Stroheim
Born 22 September 1885 · Died 12 May 1957 · Q78508
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If you live in France, for instance, and you have written one good book, or painted one good picture, or directed one outstanding film 50 years ago and nothing else since, you are still recognized and honored accordingly. People take their hats off to you and call you 'maître'. They do not forget. In Hollywood—in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture. If you didn't have one in production within the last three months, you're forgotten, no matter what you have achieved ere this.
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2026· 4 entries
“If you live in France, for instance, and you have written one good book, or painted one good picture, or directed one outstanding film 50 years ago and nothing else since, you are still recognized and honored accordingly. People take their hats off to you and call you 'maître'. They do not forget. In Hollywood—in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture. If you didn't have one in production within the last three months, you're forgotten, no matter what you have achieved ere this.”
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SBS: Watch Erich von Stroheim Movies and TV Shows
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2025· 2 entries
Moviefone: Erich von Stroheim
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Variety: New Version of Erich von Stroheim’s ‘Queen Kelly,’ Starring Gloria Swanson, to Pre-Open Venice Film Festival With Live Music Event
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2024· 1 entry
The Conversation: Greed, Erich von Stroheim’s intense, monumental silent film, turns 100. Its legacy lives on
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2008· 1 entry
Moviefone: Erich Von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius - Where to Watch
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2003· 1 entry
AV Club: The Erich Von Stroheim Collection
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1999· 1 entry
By producer Rick Schmidlin, using the existing footage mixed with surviving still photographs, but the original cut of Greed has passed into cinema lore as a lost masterpiece
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1957).
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Died 1957-05-12.
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1956· 1 entry
Stroheim began to suffer severe back pain, which was diagnosed as cancer
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1939· 1 entry
And Stroheim returned to the United States
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1929· 1 entry
Stroheim was dismissed as the director of the film Queen Kelly, after disagreements with star Gloria Swanson and producer and financier Joseph P
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1923· 1 entry
Stroheim began work on Merry-Go-Round
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1915· 1 entry
Was The Country Boy, in which he was uncredited
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1885· 2 entries
Born 1885-09-22.
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As Erich Oswald Stroheim (some sources give Hans Erich Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall, but this seems to have been an assumed name, see below), the son of Benno Stroheim, a middle-class hatmaker, and Johanna Bondy, both o
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