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Adolf Jahr

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John Adolf Reinhold Jahr, born Johansson, was a Swedish stage and screen actor, singer and director. He made his film debut in Edvard Persson's "Den gamla herrgården" (1925). Adolf Jahr appeared in some 65 feature films.

24-06-1893

Birthday

Cancer

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

65

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Sundsvall, Västernorrlands län, Sweden

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

65 Works

producer

0 Works

director

4 Works

writer

2 Works

other

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Minns ni?

Minns ni?

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
0.0

Year:

1993

When Darkness Falls

When Darkness Falls

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
5.4

Year:

1960

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century.
2.0

Year:

1959

Just a Waiter

Just a Waiter

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
7.0

Year:

1959

The People of Värmland

The People of Värmland

Erik, the son of a wealthy farmer, and Anna, the daughter of a poor crofter, have known each other since they were children. Now, that they are grown up, they love each other, but their parents won't let them have each other, since their families are enemies. Erik's father wants him to marry a rich girl instead and when Anna hears about this, she falls ill and even starts to show signs of insanity. Will the two have each other or will everything go wrong?
0.0

Year:

1957

Johan på Snippen tar hem spelet

Johan på Snippen tar hem spelet

There is a barn dance in the village Stubbhult. Johan Snippen and his friend the stationmaster Mandus plays happily, when a fight is about to break out.
0.0

Year:

1957

Johan på Snippen

Johan på Snippen

In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
0.0

Year:

1956

Laughing in the Sunshine

Laughing in the Sunshine

Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.
0.0

Year:

1956

Finnskogens folk

Finnskogens folk

The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival.
0.0

Year:

1955

Janne Vängman och den stora kometen

Janne Vängman och den stora kometen

Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.
0.0

Year:

1955

Friarannonsen

Friarannonsen

Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distributed between them. In addition they don't get any mail since the Post office refuse to hand it out.
0.0

Year:

1955

Östermans testamente

Östermans testamente

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
0.0

Year:

1954

Storm over Tjurö

Storm over Tjurö

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
4.5

Year:

1954

Tattarblod

Tattarblod

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
0.0

Year:

1954

Dance, My Doll

Dance, My Doll

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
3.3

Year:

1953

Kungen av Dalarna

Kungen av Dalarna

Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.
0.0

Year:

1953

Janne Vängman i farten

Janne Vängman i farten

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.
0.0

Year:

1952

Adolf i toppform

Adolf i toppform

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
0.0

Year:

1952

Kronans glada gossar

Kronans glada gossar

Pelle Frisk is serving in the Swedish armed forces.
0.0

Year:

1952

Livat på luckan

Livat på luckan

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
0.0

Year:

1951

Skeppare i blåsväder

Skeppare i blåsväder

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.
0.0

Year:

1951

Kvartetten som sprängdes

Kvartetten som sprängdes

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
0.0

Year:

1950

Ung och kär

Ung och kär

The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.
0.0

Year:

1950

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
6.2

Year:

1950

Janne Vängman på nya äventyr

Janne Vängman på nya äventyr

Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.
0.0

Year:

1949

Hur tokigt som helst

Hur tokigt som helst

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.
0.0

Year:

1949

Strange Harbor

Strange Harbor

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
7.0

Year:

1948

Robinson i Roslagen

Robinson i Roslagen

To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
4.2

Year:

1948

Janne Vängmans bravader

Janne Vängmans bravader

Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed.
0.0

Year:

1948

Lars Hård

Lars Hård

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
4.0

Year:

1948

Marknadsafton

Marknadsafton

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.
0.0

Year:

1948

Ådalens poesi

Ådalens poesi

The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer dies after a beating caused by Zachris. The son Olle takes over the farm and becomes a good farmer. He has a reputation of a fancying women, but the only women he has eyes for is Zachris daughter.
0.0

Year:

1947

Djurgårdskvällar

Djurgårdskvällar

An artist with drinking problems is depressed because his career didn't turn out so good. He puts his faith in his daughter to carry the artistic heritage further.
0.0

Year:

1946

Ebberöds Bank

Ebberöds Bank

Tailor Ågren in Ebberöd lives with his dominant wife Karolina and their two children. His everyday life would have been problem free if it weren't for his debts.
0.0

Year:

1946

Bröllopet på Solö

Bröllopet på Solö

Kalle Österman lives on the small island Solö together with his wife, Agneta.
0.0

Year:

1946

Bröderna Östermans huskors

Bröderna Östermans huskors

The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna.
0.0

Year:

1945

Rannstensungar

Rannstensungar

Ninni is a girl who is paralyzed from the waist down. Her mother dies and she is taken care of by a friend of the family. She is trapped in the heart of Stockholm and can't get out of the city because the lack of money.
7.0

Year:

1944

Hemsöborna

Hemsöborna

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
5.0

Year:

1944

En sjöman i frack

En sjöman i frack

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
5.0

Year:

1942

Dunungen

Dunungen

The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.
0.0

Year:

1941

'Swing It' Teacher

'Swing It' Teacher

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
5.6

Year:

1940

Karl för sin hatt

Karl för sin hatt

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
7.0

Year:

1940

Oss baroner emellan

Oss baroner emellan

Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage. A con artist, Jönsson, finds it, and uses the baron's title to get invited to the manor of Mr. and Mrs. Blomqvist. By a coincidence, the baron also comes to the manor using a fake name. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
5.0

Year:

1939

Adolf i eld och lågor

Adolf i eld och lågor

Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on one action-packed mission after the other. But it's not always that he uses honest working methods to produce his scoops.
4.0

Year:

1939

A Cruise in the Albertina

A Cruise in the Albertina

John is the skipper of the Albertina which is moored in Mariehamn. Nearby is luxury yacht Sea Star, where Ann-Mari boards. She begins to take an interest in John and makes sure to come aboard the Albertina to meet him.
0.0

Year:

1938

Just a Trumpeter

Just a Trumpeter

An army musician is mistaken for a company manager and fall in love.
3.7

Year:

1938

Adolf klarar skivan

Adolf klarar skivan

Adolf Jansson makes a living doing odd jobs until one day he gets a job working as a butler in the Pettersson residence. Adolf is instantly liked by everyone in the family except the daughter Susette, whom Adolf has fallen in love with.
0.0

Year:

1938

En sjöman går iland

En sjöman går iland

The sailor Axel Nord is asked by his captain to do him a favor before his leave begins. Captain Rundholm wants him to give a letter to his niece in Stockholm. As Nord discovers, it isn't easy to find somebody you never have met, and it isn't made easier by the fact that some crooks believe that the letter contains evidence proving embezzlement in the shipping company.
0.0

Year:

1937

Adolf Armstarke

Adolf Armstarke

Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
3.5

Year:

1937

The Ghost at Bragehus

The Ghost at Bragehus

Bragehus manor receives a new farm bailiff with new ideas on how to run a modern farm. The manor is haunted by a ghost.
4.0

Year:

1936

Stackars miljonärer

Stackars miljonärer

Jan Eriksson wins a vacation trip to a hotel in the mountains.
0.0

Year:

1936

Ä' vi gifta?

Ä' vi gifta?

The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.
0.0

Year:

1936

Samvetsömma Adolf

Samvetsömma Adolf

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
0.0

Year:

1936

Perhaps a Gentleman

Perhaps a Gentleman

Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.
5.0

Year:

1935

En bröllopsnatt på Stjärnehov

En bröllopsnatt på Stjärnehov

To save the family estate Stjärnehov, one of the twins Stiernhielm, Bertil, marries the rich sausage maker Magnusson's daughter Britta.
0.0

Year:

1934

Fasters millioner

Fasters millioner

The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.
0.0

Year:

1934

Falska Greta

Falska Greta

A woman on vacation is mistaken for Greta Garbo.
0.0

Year:

1934

Pettersson & Bendel

Pettersson & Bendel

The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
0.0

Year:

1933

En natt på Smygeholm

En natt på Smygeholm

It is rumored that there are ghosts at Smygeholm Castle.
0.0

Year:

1933

Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr

Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr

A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.
0.0

Year:

1932

Svärmor kommer

Svärmor kommer

John and Ulla are happily married and live in the villa Fridhem. Via telegram, John gets the news that his dreaded mother-in-law will come to visit.
0.0

Year:

1932

Hattmakarens bal

Hattmakarens bal

The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
5.5

Year:

1928

På kryss med Blixten

På kryss med Blixten

Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
5.0

Year:

1927

Miljonär för en dag

Miljonär för en dag

Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
7.0

Year:

1926

Den gamla herrgården

Den gamla herrgården

A 40-minute fragment survives.
0.0

Year:

1925