Biography: life and films
Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer whose birth name was Erich Oswald Stroheim. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on 22nd September 1885 and died in Maurepas, France on 12th May 1957, aged 71.His best films as an actor include The Honeymoon (1928), Jean Renoir's La Grande illusion (1937), Christian-Jaque's comedy-thriller Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938), Jean Delannoy's Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939) and Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), and whose best work as a film director include Greed (1924), The Merry Widow (1925) and The Honeymoon (1928).
Erich von Stroheim appeared in 75 films, scripted 17 films and directed 12 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: John Emerson (6 films), Pierre Chenal (3), Edmond T. Gréville (3), John H. Auer (2), George Sherman (2), George Fitzmaurice (2), D.W. Griffith (2), Christy Cabanne (2), Christian-Jaque (2), Billy Wilder (2), Bernard-Roland (2) and Alan Crosland (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (55 films), War (14), romance (12), Thriller (12), comedy-drama (10), crime-thriller (5), Horror (5), comedy (3), comedy-romance (2) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Erich von Stroheim over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Ghosts (1915) [a]
Old Heidelberg (1915) [a]
The Country Boy (1915) [a]
The Failure (1915) [a]
His Picture in the Papers (1916) [a]
Macbeth (1916) [a]
The Flying Torpedo (1916) [a]
The Social Secretary (1916) [a]
Draft 258 (1917) [a]
For France (1917) [a]
In Again, Out Again (1917) [a]
Panthea (1917) [a]
Reaching for the Moon (1917) [a]
Sylvia of the Secret Service (1917) [a]
Who Goes There? (1917) [a]
Hearts of the World (1918) [a]
The Heart of Humanity (1918) [a]
The Hun Within (1918) [a]
The Unbeliever (1918) [a]
Blind Husbands (1919) [a,d,w]
The Fall of Babylon (1919) [a]
The Devil's Passkey (1920) [d,w]
Foolish Wives (1922) [a,d,w]
Merry-Go-Round (1923) [d,w]
Souls for Sale (1923) [a]
Greed (1924) [d,w]
The Merry Widow (1925) [d,w]
Tempest (1928) [w]
The Honeymoon (1928) [a,d,w]
The Wedding March (1928) [a,d,w]
Queen Kelly (1929) [d,w]
The Great Gabbo (1929) [a,d]
Three Faces East (1930) [a]
Friends and Lovers (1931) [a]
As You Desire Me (1932) [a]
Hello, Sister! (1933) [d,w]
Crimson Romance (1934) [a]
Fugitive Road (1934) [a,d,w]
The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935) [a]
Between Two Women (1937) [w]
L'Alibi (1937) [a]
Les Pirates du rail (1937) [a]
Marthe Richard au service de la France (1937) [a]
Under Secret Orders (1937) [a]
Gibraltar (1938) [a,w]
L'Affaire Lafarge (1938) [a]
La Vie des artistes (1938) [a]
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1938) [a]
Ultimatum (1938) [a]
Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939) [a]
Pièges (1939) [a]
Rappel immédiat (1939) [a]
I Was an Adventuress (1940) [a,w]
Menaces (1940) [a]
Tempête (1940) [a]
So Ends Our Night (1941) [a]
Five Graves to Cairo (1943) [a]
The North Star (1943) [a]
Storm Over Lisbon (1944) [a]
The Lady and the Monster (1944) [a]
Scotland Yard Investigator (1945) [a]
The Great Flamarion (1945) [a]
La Foire aux chimères (1946) [a]
On ne meurt pas comme ça (1946) [a]
The Mask of Diijon (1946) [a]
La Danse de mort (1948) [a,w]
Portrait d'un assassin (1949) [a]
Alraune (1952) [a]
Alerte au sud (1953) [a]
L'Envers du paradis (1953) [a]
Minuit... Quai de Bercy (1953) [a]
La Madone des sleepings (1955) [a]
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979) [a]
Détective (1985) [a]
The best French Films of the 1920s
The very best of the French New Wave
The best of American film noir
