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If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Erich von Stroheim

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Erich von Stroheim
Age: 71 †
Born: 1885
Born: September 22
Died: 1957
Died: May 12
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Vienna
Austria
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim
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