Erich von Stroheim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erich von Stroheim

Austrian actor and director

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1885

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 12-May-1957

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, film actor

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant garde, visionary director of the silent era.
His masterpiece adaptation of Frank Norris's McTeague titled Greed is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made.
After clashes with Hollywood studio bosses over budget and workers' rights issues, Stroheim was banned for life as a director and subsequently became a well-respected character actor, particularly in French cinema.
For his early innovations as a director, Stroheim is still celebrated as one of the first of the auteur directors.
He helped introduce more sophisticated plots and noirish sexual and psychological undercurrents into cinema.
He died in 1957 in France of prostate cancer at the age of 71.
Beloved by Parisian neo-Surrealists known as Letterists, he was honored by Letterist Maurice Lemaitre with a 70-minute 1979 film entitled "Erich von Stroheim."