Acting

Erich von Stroheim

Born September 22, 1885 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Died May 12, 1957 · aged 71

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. He was renowned for his meticulous attention to detail as a director and for portraying intense, often morally ambiguous characters on screen. Stroheim gained fame for directing and starring in films like "Greed" a…

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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

Sunset Boulevard

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion · 1937

MovieDramaHistory

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation · 1915

The Birth of a Nation

MovieDramaHistory

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages · 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

MovieDramaHistory

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Greed

MovieDramaCrime

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo · 1943

Five Graves to Cairo

MovieWarThriller

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

Midnight... Quai de Bercy · 1953

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.

Personal Column

Personal Column · 1939

Personal Column

MovieThrillerMystery

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

Sunset Boulevard

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Max von Mayerling

Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion · 1937

MovieDramaHistory

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Captain von Rauffenstein

The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation · 1915

The Birth of a Nation

MovieDramaHistory

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Assistant Director

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages · 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

MovieDramaHistory

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Assistant Production Manager

Greed

MovieDramaCrime

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

Director

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo · 1943

Five Graves to Cairo

MovieWarThriller

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

Midnight... Quai de Bercy · 1953

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.

Le professeur Kieffer

Personal Column

Personal Column · 1939

Personal Column

MovieThrillerMystery

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

Pears, l'ex-couturier

Armored Attack!

Armored Attack! · 1957

Armored Attack!

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.

Dr. Otto Von Harden

The North Star

The North Star · 1943

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

Dr. von Harden

Alibi

MovieMysteryCrime

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.

Professor Winckler

Napoleon

Napoleon · 1955

MovieDramaHistory

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Boys' School

Boys' School · 1938

MovieAdventureDrama

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.

Walter, le professeur d'anglais

The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion · 1945

The Great Flamarion

MovieCrimeDrama

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

The Great Flamarion

Scotland Yard Investigator

Scotland Yard Investigator · 1945

Scotland Yard Investigator

MovieMysteryAction

A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.

Carl Hoffmeyer

The Lady and the Monster

The Lady and the Monster · 1944

The Lady and the Monster

MovieScience FictionHorror

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

Prof. Franz Mueller

The Red Signal

The Red Signal · 1949

MovieThrillerDrama

A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the train! Stop it!" .

Mathias Berthold

Ultimatum

Ultimatum · 1938

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

General Simovic

The Devil-Doll

The Devil-Doll · 1936

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Screenplay

Foolish Wives

Foolish Wives · 1922

MovieDramaThriller

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

Director

Crimson Romance

Crimson Romance · 1934

Crimson Romance

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?

Capt. Wolters

Papatya

Papatya · 1956

Original Story

The Unbeliever

The Unbeliever · 1918

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz

Hello, Sister!

Hello, Sister! · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

While Peggy deeply falls in love with Jimmy, her best friend Millie becomes increasingly frustrated with men and very jealous with Peggy, so she tries everything to destroy the new love.

Director