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  1. Sep 22, 2012 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 7126906. Source citation. Motion Picture Director. The son of a Jewish straw hat maker, he arrived in New York in 1909. During the voyage, he re-invented his origins as Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim, son of a German Baroness and an Austrian Count and a graduate of the Military Academy at Wienerneustadt ...

  2. Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) 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 (an adaptation of Frank Norris 's 1899 novel McTeague) is ...

  3. The lights and darks in his cynical view of humanity were always shaded tones, highlighted with symbolic artistry and black humor. Offsetting a richly textured elegance with banality, filth and deviance, von Stroheim exposed aristocrats in their pajamas and mustache bands. He focused on aberrations, idiosyncrasies, and deformities, inserting ...

  4. May 9, 2024 · Erich von Stroheim (born September 22, 1885, Vienna, Austria—died May 12, 1957, near Paris, France) was one of the most critically respected motion-picture directors of the 20th century, best known for the uncompromising realism and accuracy of detail in his films. He also wrote screenplays and won recognition as an actor, notably for roles ...

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  5. Introduction Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era.

  6. May 17, 2018 · von STROHEIM, Erich. Nationality: Austrian. Born: Erich Oswald Stroheim in Vienna, 22 September 1885; became U.S. citizen, 1926. Education: According to von Stroheim he attended Mariahilfe Military Academy, though several biographers doubt this. Military Service: Served briefly in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

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