Erich von Stroheim
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" and "The Merry Widow." His style was marked by elaborate storytelling and a commitment to realism. Stroheim's career was impactful, though often marked by conflicts with studios due to his uncompromising vision, which led to some of his films being heavily edited against his wishes.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.964 |
| Birthday | 1885-09-22 |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] |
| Also Known As | Erich Stroheim, Eric von Stroheim, 에리히 폰 슈트로하임, 에리히 폰 스트로하임, Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim, Eric Oswald Stroheim, |
1950
Sunset Boulevard
8.3/2565
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Sunset Boulevard
1937
Grand Illusion
7.8/679
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differ...
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Grand Illusion
1952
Alraune
5.3/14
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scie...
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Alraune
1945
The Great Flamarion
6.173/26
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
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The Great Flamarion
1922
Foolish Wives
6.6/86
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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Foolish Wives
1922
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
0/0
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1928
The Wedding March
7/34
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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The Wedding March
1943
Five Graves to Cairo
6.9/126
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He a...
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Five Graves to Cairo
1929
The Honeymoon
0/0
Sequel to von Stroheim's The Wedding March released only in Europe. The only known copy was destroyed in a fire at the Cinémathèque Française in 1959.
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The Honeymoon
1939
Personal Column
6.6/11
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest mis...
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Personal Column
1938
Boys' School
7.3/47
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...
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Boys' School
1946
The Mask of Diijon
4.9/15
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
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The Mask of Diijon
1943
The North Star
6.1/23
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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The North Star
1937
Alibi
6.5/12
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...
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Alibi
1949
Portrait of a Murderer
5.7/8
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.
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Portrait of a Murderer
1919
Blind Husbands
6.3/27
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surp...
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Blind Husbands
1938
La Vie des artistes
0/0
Everything you wanted to know about your favorite circus, radio and movie stars. They tell you about their lives and likes and dislikes.
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La Vie des artistes
1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
0/0
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1932
The Lost Squadron
6.2/17
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadisti...
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The Lost Squadron
1930
Three Faces East
4.7/6
The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
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Three Faces East
1937
Marthe Richard
4.5/6
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.
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Marthe Richard
1944
Storm Over Lisbon
4.8/6
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
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Storm Over Lisbon
1932
As You Desire Me
6.2/12
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's es...
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As You Desire Me
1946
Devil and the Angel
5.4/7
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman,...
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Devil and the Angel
1940
Thunder Over Paris
5.5/2
An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with ecc...
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Thunder Over Paris
1939
Behind the Facade
7.8/6
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildi...
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Behind the Facade
1939
The World Will Shake
6.7/3
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and...
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The World Will Shake
1929
The Great Gabbo
5.5/22
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
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The Great Gabbo
1944
The Lady and the Monster
5.8/20
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
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The Lady and the Monster
1931
Friends and Lovers
5/6
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affa...
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Friends and Lovers
1948
Stroheim in Vienna
0/0
Issue No. 162 (date: July 16, 1948) of the Austrian newsreel "Welt im Film" shows Erich von Stroheim's arrival in Vienna as part of the cast of Ernst...
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Stroheim in Vienna
1918
The Unbeliever
6.1/5
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his traini...
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The Unbeliever
1935
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
4.5/11
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in orde...
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The Crime of Doctor Crespi
1918
The Heart of Humanity
6.1/4
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers....
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The Heart of Humanity
1955
Série noire
2/1
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns....
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Série noire
1941
So Ends Our Night
6/8
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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So Ends Our Night
1934
Crimson Romance
6/1
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...
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Crimson Romance
1979
The Man You Loved to Hate
6.3/7
The Man You Loved To Hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs, and clips from von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a fa...
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The Man You Loved to Hate
1945
Scotland Yard Investigator
5.7/3
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
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Scotland Yard Investigator
1940
Threats
5.357/7
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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Threats
1953
Other Side of Paradise
5/2
Complicated intrigues fester in the warmth of Segnac, a charming village on the Cô te d'Azur. The hô teliers' daughter, Violaine, has only a few month...
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Other Side of Paradise
1948
La Danse de mort
5.9/7
A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.
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La Danse de mort
1934
Fugitive Road
0/0
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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Fugitive Road
1918
The Hun Within
0/0
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America...
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The Hun Within
2006
Edge of Outside
5.8/4
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and...
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Edge of Outside
1938
Gibraltar
6.2/4
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working...
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Gibraltar
1940
I Was an Adventuress
6.3/9
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...
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I Was an Adventuress
1924
Greed
7.4/173
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Greed
1923
Souls for Sale
6.2/20
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Souls for Sale
1915
Old Heidelberg
4/0
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other childre...
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Old Heidelberg
1915
Ghosts
4.5/2
Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marr...
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Ghosts
1916
The Flying Torpedo
0/0
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country i...
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The Flying Torpedo
1966
Erich von Stroheim - Der Mann mit dem bösen Blick
0/0
Documentary on Erich von Stroheim
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Erich von Stroheim - Der Mann mit dem bösen Blick
1938
Ultimatum
0/0
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer an...
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Ultimatum
1942
Gambling Hell
6.4/8
In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in i...
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Gambling Hell
1955
Napoleon
6.3/17
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 shootin...
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Napoleon
1916
The Social Secretary
5.6/8
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
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The Social Secretary
1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.1/332
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1925
1925 Studio Tour
6.2/15
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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1925 Studio Tour
1953
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
6.5/2
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 t...
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
1955
La madone des sleepings
3/1
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches, a...
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La madone des sleepings
1938
Rail Pirates
6/2
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.
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Rail Pirates
1917
Panthea
0/0
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
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Panthea
1916
His Picture in the Papers
4.6/9
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and v...
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His Picture in the Papers
1938
The Lafarge Case
5.8/2
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husb...
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The Lafarge Case
1953
Alarm in Morocco
0/1
When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Moro...
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Alarm in Morocco
1957
Armored Attack!
6.2/2
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive referenc...
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Armored Attack!
1949
The Red Signal
0/0
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 trai...
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The Red Signal
1918
Hearts of the World
6/21
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies vil...
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Hearts of the World
1946
One Does Not Die That Way
0/0
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehear...
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One Does Not Die That Way
2017
Quand Jean devint Renoir
10/1
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image o...
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
1939
Immediate Call
0/0
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is...
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Immediate Call
1937
Under Secret Orders
0/0
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for Ge...
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Under Secret Orders
1915
The Country Boy
0/0
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