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Edvin Adolphson
Actor 1893 - 1979

Edvin Adolphson

Furingstad, Vikbolandet, Östergötlands län

Gustav Edvin Adolphson was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He made his stage debut in 1912, his first film "Thomas Graal's Best Child" (1918), and directed the first Swedish sound film, "Säg det i toner/ The Dream Waltz" in 1929. He was actress Harriet Bosse's... Read full bio →

Filmography

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19 titles
Bröllopsbesvär

Bröllopsbesvär

Åke Falck 1964 1h 35m

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

Paw

Paw

Astrid Henning-Jensen 1959 1h 44m

In this youthful adventure, a young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a West Indian. With nowhere to turn, the ingenious survivor begins devising a new life outside of town.

Laila

Laila

Rolf Husberg 1958 1h 40m 6.0

An orphan raised by Laplanders falls in love with a Norwegian outsider.

Körkarlen

Körkarlen

Arne Mattsson 1958 1h 49m 6.0

The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. He will now face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend.

Paradiset

Arne Ragneborn 1955 1h 30m 5.0

The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.

Enhörningen

Enhörningen

Gustaf Molander 1955 1h 38m 4.0

Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise.

Hon dansade en sommar

Hon dansade en sommar

Arne Mattsson 1951 1h 43m 8.0

After graduation, a Swedish youth goes to live with his uncle in the countryside and immediately takes a liking to a local girl.

Frökens första barn

Frökens första barn

Schamyl Bauman 1950 1h 42m 5.0

Author Johannes Porshammar is about to write a book about single mothers but his publisher doesn't believe in it. The publisher prints an ad in Porshammar's name where he seeks objects of study so Porshammar could improve his topic.

Skolka skolan

Skolka skolan

Schamyl Bauman 1949 1h 51m 5.0

Newly married high school student return to school without informing her husband.

Supé för två

Supé för två

Ragnar Arvedson 1947 1h 32m 5.0

Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money and in return she hires him as a sketch artist for the company's advertisement.

En dag skall gry

En dag skall gry

Hasse Ekman 1944 1h 35m 6.0

An army officer kills his wife's lover, then escapes to Finland to fight in the Winter War.

Sjätte skottet

Sjätte skottet

Hasse Ekman 1943 1h 24m 6.0

Marksman travel the world with his partner and shooting act.

Lågor i dunklet

Lågor i dunklet

Hasse Ekman 1942 1h 34m 6.0

In this obvious forerunner to Torment (1944), Stig Järrel plays mentally-disturbed Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school in the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn.

Med dej i mina armar

Med dej i mina armar

Hasse Ekman 1940 1h 22m 6.0

Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.

Ett brott

Ett brott

Anders Henrikson 1940 1h 32m 5.0

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. The clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons.

En enda natt

En enda natt

Gustaf Molander 1939 1h 31m 5.0

Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stable master. The colonel has a young and beautiful ward, Eva, but will she and Valdemar fall in love with each other?

Dollar

Dollar

Gustaf Molander 1938 1h 18m 6.0

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Munkbrogreven

Munkbrogreven

Sigurd Wallén, Edvin Adolphson 1935 1h 23m 6.0

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

Körkarlen

Körkarlen

Victor Sjöström 1921 1h 48m 8.6

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

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