He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1. Between then and 1. Sweden, some of which are now lost. Those surviving include The Sons of Ingmar (1. Karin, Daughter of Ingmar (1. The Phantom Carriage (1. Nobel Prize. 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. 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 1. 92. 4, 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 1. Uncomfortable with the modifications needed to direct talking films, Victor Sj. Over the following fifteen years, Sj. At age 7. 8 he gave his final acting performance, probably his best remembered, as the elderly professor Isaak Borg in Ingmar Bergman's film Wild Strawberries (1. Gustaf Molander's Swedenhielms. Victor Sjostrom's adaptation of His Grace's Last Testament (1919). His Grace’s Last Testament in the United Kingdom : . His Grace's Last Testament, His Grace's Will) (1919).
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