Fritiof Billquist

Acting

Fritiof Billquist

Born — Died

1901-05-05 — 1972-04-21

Place of birth

Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Private Number 91-Karlsson poster
7.2

The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.

Private Number 91-Karlsson

1946

En vår i vapen poster
9.0

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.

En vår i vapen

1943

Valley of the Eagles poster
6.2

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

Valley of the Eagles

1951

Turn of the Century poster
6.0

Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Turn of the Century

1944

Far till sol och vår poster
6.7

Martin Wide inherits a bus from his dying grandfather. He restores it from being a hen house into a tourist bus. He puts an ad in the newspaper about "travels to the sun" and also advertises for a stewardess at the same time. The female reporter Vera Boman signs up for the job, in order to expose the "tourist travel hoax". The two, together with passengers of various kinds set off from a snowy Sweden towards Paris. During the trip, Vera starts to realize that Martin is not a "tourist cheater" but a kind and thoughtful travel arranger, who tries to tend to all his passengers as best as he can, even when the situations become difficult to handle. In addition, a famous Swedish diamond has just been stolen and it turns out that both the thieves and the private detectives who are after them, are passengers on the bus.

Far till sol och vår

1957

The People of Värmland poster
6.5

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?

The People of Värmland

1957

Film credits

1950s · 19 titles

Valley of the Eagles poster
6.2

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

Valley of the Eagles

1951

Far till sol och vår poster
6.7

Martin Wide inherits a bus from his dying grandfather. He restores it from being a hen house into a tourist bus. He puts an ad in the newspaper about "travels to the sun" and also advertises for a stewardess at the same time. The female reporter Vera Boman signs up for the job, in order to expose the "tourist travel hoax". The two, together with passengers of various kinds set off from a snowy Sweden towards Paris. During the trip, Vera starts to realize that Martin is not a "tourist cheater" but a kind and thoughtful travel arranger, who tries to tend to all his passengers as best as he can, even when the situations become difficult to handle. In addition, a famous Swedish diamond has just been stolen and it turns out that both the thieves and the private detectives who are after them, are passengers on the bus.

Far till sol och vår

1957

The People of Värmland poster
6.5

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?

The People of Värmland

1957

Girls Without Rooms poster
6.7

Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.

Girls Without Rooms

1956

Restaurant Intim poster
9.0

A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.

Restaurant Intim

1950

My Passionate Longing poster
10.0

The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.

My Passionate Longing

1956

91:an Karlssons bravader poster
5.0

Privates 91 and 87 once again end up in goofy predicaments when an important map belonging to the regiment goes missing.

91:an Karlssons bravader

1951

91:an Karlsson muckar (tror han) poster
10.0

In the last film of the original 91 film series two letters - one written in spite and another in love - end up in the wrong hands, while 91 and 87 as usual try to avoid ending up in military arrest.

91:an Karlsson muckar (tror han)

1959

No artwork available
10.0

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.

91:an Karlsson slår knockout

1957

Flottans överman poster
4.8

Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Flottans överman

1958

Tarp's Elin poster
9.0

Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.

Tarp's Elin

1956

91:an Karlsson rycker in poster
10.0

Charged by their infatuation of the regiment's maid Elvira, friends and rivals Mandel and Axelsson arrive for military duty, whereupon silly things happen in and around a mansion that is rumored to be haunted.

91:an Karlsson rycker in

1955

Tull-Bom poster
5.7

Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

Tull-Bom

1951

Alla tiders 91:an Karlsson poster
9.0

While Stockholm celebrates its 700th anniversary, private 91 is knocked on his head and goes on a fantastical journey through Swedish history.

Alla tiders 91:an Karlsson

1953

Dance, My Doll poster
4.2

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.

Dance, My Doll

1953

Skorpan poster
10.0

Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.

Skorpan

1956

Flottans Muntergökar poster
7.0

Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.

Flottans Muntergökar

1955

Loffe blir polis poster
7.0

The singing vagabond Loffe suddenly becomes a man of the law.

Loffe blir polis

1950

The Vicious Breed poster
6.3

About a man hunt when a man escapes from the prison.

The Vicious Breed

1954

1940s · 26 titles

Private Number 91-Karlsson poster
7.2

The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.

Private Number 91-Karlsson

1946

En vår i vapen poster
9.0

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.

En vår i vapen

1943

Turn of the Century poster
6.0

Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Turn of the Century

1944

Master Detective Blomkvist poster
5.6

It's summer. Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders have formed a gang, the White Rose. They are in playful battle with Red Rose gang. A relative of Eva-Lotta's mother, Uncle Einar, come to visit and Kalle notice immediately that he is behaving strangely. Einar seems to have hidden something in a closed mine outside town. Two mysterious strangers appear.

Master Detective Blomkvist

1947

Eviga länkar poster
6.5

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.

Eviga länkar

1946

Örlogsmän poster
6.0

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Örlogsmän

1943

Strange Harbor poster
7.0

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.

Strange Harbor

1948

The Station Master poster
7.0

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

The Station Master

1942

En svensk tiger poster
8.0

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

En svensk tiger

1948

A City with Tradition: A Film about Lund poster
NR

A document of life and culture in the southern Swedish university town, Lund.

A City with Tradition: A Film about Lund

1947

91:an Karlssons permis poster
5.0

Private number 91 gets into more hijinks in this hilarious sequel.

91:an Karlssons permis

1947

Our Gang poster
7.0

A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.

Our Gang

1942

The Happy Tailor poster
6.5

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.

The Happy Tailor

1945

Blyge Anton poster
7.0

Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.

Blyge Anton

1940

Life and Death poster
6.7

Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.

Life and Death

1943

Jolanta - den gäckande suggan poster
7.0

The Skåne farmer Jeppsson has a tax debt and gets into trouble when he refuses to pay.

Jolanta - den gäckande suggan

1945

Här kommer vi ... poster
6.5

The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.

Här kommer vi ...

1947

Bohus Bataljon poster
7.0

Three newly drafted recruits arrives to the I17 regiment to do their military service.

Bohus Bataljon

1949

I paradis ... poster
8.0

The Stockholm publisher Adam, a wealthy gentleman with a favorable appearance, has completely undeservedly gained a reputation for being a great Don Juan. Women of all ages are drawn to him and give him their invitations. To be at peace, Adam escapes on his sailboat out into the archipelago and settles down on a small islet. But the ladies follow him and in their footsteps follow jealous fiancés and angry courting cavaliers.

I paradis ...

1941

Beredskapspojkar poster
6.0

Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

Beredskapspojkar

1940

Flottans kavaljerer poster
5.1

Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.

Flottans kavaljerer

1948

No artwork available
7.0

An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.

Romans

1940

No artwork available
10.0

A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.

Kvinnan tar befälet

1942

Onsdagsväninnan poster
9.0

Karin Larsson and Douglas Hallencreutz has a somewhat peculiar relationship. They meet every Wednesday at Douglas. Karin is Douglas "Wednesday's friend." Otherwise, they live completely separate lives. This Wednesday they wake up together. Karin showers and leave Douglas fancy apartment at Strandvägen, Stockholm. She lives with her father, former captain Larsson. When Karin come home, Baltzar is at the door. Baltzar is a typical "guy" full of ideas, not always successful. It also turns out that Baltzar had a relationship with one of Karin's sisters.

Onsdagsväninnan

1946

Västkustens hjältar poster
7.5

Torsten and Sven are in love with Inger, who prefers Sven. Due to jealousy, Torsten destroys the radio system aboard the fishing boat as Sven will release the following morning. During the fishing season it blows up, but as the radio is not working, the crew does not know anything about the danger.

Västkustens hjältar

1940

Loffe som miljonär poster
9.0

The vagabond Loffe is drifting along the Swedish summer landscape.

Loffe som miljonär

1948

1930s · 13 titles

No artwork available
8.0

The story of the circus family Bohlin.

Cirkus

1939

Synnöve Solbakken poster
10.0

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

Synnöve Solbakken

1934

Raggen - det är jag det poster
8.0

Maria, who's called Raggen, is one of a total of 9 daughters in the family. For a birthday present, Raggen gets a trip to Paris.

Raggen - det är jag det

1936

Vi som går scenvägen poster
10.0

Tage breaks up with his girlfriend Dora when he falls in love with the ballet dancer Maud.

Vi som går scenvägen

1938

No artwork available
8.0

The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.

Kustens glada kavaljerer

1938

Ungdom av i dag poster
10.0

Lydia is a problem for her husband. She is wasteful and the family have huge debts. To solve the financial problems, Lydia is planning to marry her daughter to a wealthy acquaintance.

Ungdom av i dag

1935

National match poster
10.0

Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.

National match

1932

South of the Highway poster
8.0

The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.

South of the Highway

1936

Tystnadens hus poster
7.0

"House of Silence" - A banker and his old housekeeper are brutally assassinated by a gangster called Smith. The murders are arranged so that they may look like a showdown between two victims. The police force are divided on the murders. Susanna Braun, an old acquaintance of the banker, claims that he could not have murdered his housekeeper. A baron who owns a night club is in need of money. He does business with gangsters. The baron involves Smith in the kidnapping of Susanna Braun.

Tystnadens hus

1933

No artwork available
9.0

The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work.

Flickor på fabrik

1935

Kamrater i vapenrocken poster
7.0

Loffe and his friend Pelle are called to the military service.

Kamrater i vapenrocken

1938

Tired Theodore poster
8.0

Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.

Tired Theodore

1931

No artwork available
9.0

Lund is home to Qvillander and Schorn. There is also a gentleman who lives entirely in the world of books, Professor Möbius. The latter is dominated by his aunt, Miss Lundén, who manages the finances of the house.

Inled mig i frestelse

1933

Behind the camera