10-07-1904
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42
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Nyköping, Södermanlands län, Sweden
Place of Birth
10-07-1904
Birthday
Cancer
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
42
Total Films
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Also Known As (male)
Nyköping, Södermanlands län, Sweden
Place of Birth
actor
42 Works
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A Stranger Came by Train
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.Year:
1974
Sagan om Siv
About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.Year:
1974
Deadline
A terrifying drama about what might happen in a disaster situation. An airplane loaded with bacteriological weapons crashes in the south of Sweden, causing an epidemic.Year:
1971
Körsbärsträdgården
Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.Year:
1970
Adam in Sweden
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.Year:
1966
The Mistress
A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.Year:
1962
On a Bench in a Park
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...Year:
1960
Mälarpirater
Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.Year:
1959
Måsen
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.Year:
1959
Jazz Boy
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.Year:
1958
Woman in a Fur Coat
Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?Year:
1958
Wild Strawberries
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.Year:
1957
Som man bäddar...
Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance.Year:
1957
Gårdarna runt sjön
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.Year:
1957
The Seventh Seal
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.Year:
1957
Resa i natten
Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.Year:
1955
Skrattbomben
Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh.Year:
1954
Gabrielle
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.Year:
1954
Gabrielle
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.Year:
1954
Young Summer
Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.Year:
1954
Seger i mörker
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.Year:
1954
Dumbom
Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.Year:
1953
The Road to Klockrike
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.Year:
1953
Summer Interlude
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.Year:
1951
Skeppare i blåsväder
The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.Year:
1951
The Girl from the Third Row
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.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
Harald Handfaste
Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.Year:
1946
The Happy Tailor
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.Year:
1945
Klockan på Rönneberga
Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.Year:
1944
Snöstormen
Lave decides to leave his hometown in order to escape murder suspicions. On his way to Killingdal, he gets right in the middle of a snow storm.Year:
1944
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
Hanna in High Society
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.Year:
1940
...som en tjuv om natten
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.Year:
1940
We Two
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.Year:
1939
Our Building of Home and Community
Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.Year:
1936
Bombi Bitt and Me
A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.Year:
1936
Alla tiders Karlsson
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.Year:
1936
Flickor på fabrik
The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work.Year:
1935
Atlantäventyret
Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.Year:
1934
Kanske en diktare
Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. One-night three guests enter the restaurant, the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding who owes Kurtz money demands his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...Year:
1933
En melodi om våren
The artist Richard Stolpe paints a portrait of the beautiful blonde Gurli that leads to complications.Year:
1933
