Josef von Sternberg 2 pictures

Director, Writer, Assistant Director
Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop out of high school, von Sternberg worked for a ...

Born: May 29, 1894
Star sign: Gemini
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Known for: The Blue Angel (1930), Dishonored (1931), The Last Command (1928), Shanghai Express (1932)
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