🎬 Erich von Stroheim

About

Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American actor and film director who made his name in the silent era. In Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) he plays Max von Mayerling, the devoted butler of faded star Norma Desmond - one of his most memorable screen roles. As a director he is known for the obsessively detailed silent epic Greed (1924).