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Here's one more for ya; second only to Welle's in my estimation: Erich Von Stroheim!!!

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In Reply to: What is the best movie ever directed by an actor? posted by clarkjohnsen on September 20, 2004 at 07:36:47:

As an actor and second unit director in D.W. Griffith's film company he managed to position himself to be given an opportunity to direct. Wildly successful after the daring productions Blind Husbands, followed by Foolish Wives, he went on to grander, costlier, ever more elaborate productions, including Greed, The Wedding March and Queen Kelly. He was undoubtably self-indulgent and overly detail oriented, but in many ways well ahead of his time and perhaps the most realistic American director/actor of the 1920's.
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Re: Here's one more for ya; second only to Welle's in my estimation: Erich Von Stroheim!!! - rico 06:14:57 09/21/04 (0)
Good post. Although a great fan of the man you love to hate I completely forgot about Stroheim. He figures in three authentic film classics, "Greed", "Grand illusion", and "Sunset Boulevard"
(although he only direted the first).

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