FrameThrower · Actors · Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström
3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1921–1957
Born 21 September 1879 · Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden · died 3 January 1960
Victor David Sjöström, sometimes known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include The Phantom Carriage (1921), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), and The Wind (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1921–1957
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
How their films are shot
Measured across 187 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Victor takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Victor takes.
Time of day
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 187 frames from Victor Sjöström's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.