23-11-1911
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
75
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
Place of Birth
23-11-1911
Birthday
Sagittarius
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
75
Total Films
Barry Melvin
Also Known As (male)
Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
Place of Birth
actor
75 Works
producer
0 Works
director
4 Works
writer
3 Works
other
1 Works
Raskenstam
The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.Year:
1983
Nationalmonumentet
The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.Year:
1977
A Man with a Maid
A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.Year:
1975
Söderkåkar
The story of two brothers, one rich and one poor living next to each other , struggling along with their families and daily lives in the south parts of Stockholm in the 1930's.Year:
1970
Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?
A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.Year:
1970
Pig Hunt
"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.Year:
1970
Pygmalion
Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?Year:
1968
Lorden från gränden
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.Year:
1967
Slottstappning
About a man who takes advantage of his friends and one day comes across an extraordinary painting.Year:
1964
Tre dar på luffen
A vagabond comes walking on a small Swedish country road in the middle of summer. Suddenly he finds himself employed at a nearby farm.Year:
1964
Loving Couples
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.Year:
1964
A Dream Play
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.Year:
1963
Do You Believe in Angels?
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.Year:
1961
Guldgrävarna
After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.Year:
1959
Miss April
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.Year:
1958
Blonde in Bondage
A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.Year:
1957
Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.Year:
1957
91:an Karlsson slår knockout
Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.Year:
1957
The Halo Is Slipping
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.Year:
1957
Där möllorna gå...
Year:
1956
Suss gott
The jack of all trades Pekka is having financial trouble and is being hunted by a debt collector.Year:
1956
Pettersson i Annorlunda
Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.Year:
1956
The Right to Love
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.Year:
1956
Smiles of a Summer Night
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.Year:
1955
Blue sky
Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned.Year:
1955
Så tuktas kärleken
Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.Year:
1955
Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.Year:
1955
Young Summer
Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.Year:
1954
Skattefria Andersson
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.Year:
1954
The Master Detective and Rasmus
Kalle Blomkvist and his friends intervene when a professor and his little son Rasmus are kidnapped.Year:
1953
Malin Goes Home
Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.Year:
1953
Marianne
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.Year:
1953
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.Year:
1953
När syrenerna blomma
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.Year:
1952
All this - and Iceland too
1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.Year:
1951
Det var en gång en sjöman
Shipmate Öman comes to the north-African city of Jazzablanca, a nest of sin with prostitution and organized crime.Year:
1951
Tull-Bom
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.Year:
1951
Min vän Oscar
Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.Year:
1951
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.Year:
1950
Jack of Hearts
Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.Year:
1950
Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.Year:
1949
Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.Year:
1949
Prison
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.Year:
1949
Farlig vår
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias ThuressonYear:
1949
Gatan
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.Year:
1949
Vagabond Blacksmiths
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.Year:
1949
The Woman Drives Me Crazy
Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.Year:
1948
On These Shoulders
Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.Year:
1948
Love, Sunshine and Songs
Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.Year:
1948
När ängarna blommar
The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.Year:
1946
Incorrigible
Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.Year:
1946
Kristin Commands
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.Year:
1946
Peggy på vift
Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.Year:
1946
Försök inte med mej...
Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.Year:
1946
Trötte Teodor
Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home.Year:
1945
En förtjusande fröken
Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.Year:
1945
Gomorron Bill!
Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.Year:
1945
Skipper Jansson
Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.Year:
1945
Crime and Punishment
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.Year:
1945
Five to Twelve
A documentary on Vidkun Quisling.Year:
1945
Moderskapets kval och lycka
Eva-Maria Dahl gets the news from a doctor that she's having a baby.Year:
1945
Flickor i hamn
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.Year:
1945
The Royal Rabble
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.Year:
1945
Den heliga lögnen
Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a shock as her husband appears from the dead at the hotel.Year:
1944
New Order at Sjogarda
Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.Year:
1944
Skogen är vår arvedel
The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young people leave the countryside. When the workers at the factory go on strike, they ask him to sell milk to them and let them work in his forest. But Jonsson is stubborn and refuses to give them any help at all. At least until he is in an accident and also need help.Year:
1944
Gröna hissen
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.Year:
1944
Lev farligt
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.Year:
1944
Narkos
A professor suffers an accident that disables him. He struggles to keep his courage, trying to understand and solve a conflict with his wife.Year:
1944
What We Did
The Konsum cooperative strikes a blow for equality in a film directed by one of Sweden's few female film directors: Ingrid Luterkort.Year:
1944
En vår i vapen
During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.Year:
1943
The Heavenly Play
"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.Year:
1942
En sjöman i frack
First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.Year:
1942
Ung dam med tur
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.Year:
1941
Bergslagsfolk
A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.Year:
1937
