Gösta Krantz

Acting

Gösta Krantz

Born — Died

1925-06-14 — 2008-12-26

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Known for

Rederiet poster
7.5

This Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.

Rederiet

1992

Svensson, Svensson poster
6.3

Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers. The series centres around the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav who works as mailman, the mother Lena who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina and their son Max. For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina has married the conductor John who brought his daughter Greta into the family.

Svensson, Svensson

1994

Profitörerna poster
6.0

Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.

Profitörerna

1983

Någonstans i Sverige poster
6.8

In the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months, the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack this country.

Någonstans i Sverige

1973

Dubbelsvindlarna poster
6.0

Principal Bertilsson lives a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that he is hiding a million kronor in his basement. Money of a successful bank robbery.

Dubbelsvindlarna

1982

Det är din boll, Jim poster
NR

Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.

Det är din boll, Jim

1978

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 6 titles

Lysande landning poster
7.2

Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.

Lysande landning

1987

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry poster
6.0

Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room. When he is released, he has a new plan, but Rocky and Vanheden have decided to go straight. Together with Dynamite-Harry, Sickan plans to rob a cold store, managed by their arch-enemy, Wall-Enberg.

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry

1982

Sverige åt svenskarna poster
3.2

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.

Sverige åt svenskarna

1980

Amorosa poster
5.6

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Amorosa

1986

Mother poster
8.0

About the young film critic Gerd, who dream of interviewing actors like Jean Gabin and Jean-Louis Barrault and to one day direct a movie.

Mother

1982

Casino i sommarbusken poster
NR

In front of and behind the scenes with the Casino gang on their summer tour.

Casino i sommarbusken

1981

1970s · 10 titles

Det är din boll, Jim poster
NR

Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.

Det är din boll, Jim

1978

91:an och generalernas fnatt poster
10.0

When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.

91:an och generalernas fnatt

1977

47:an Löken blåser på! poster
4.2

A French and a Russian general show up at the regiment where 47:an Löken and 69:an are up to their old tricks again

47:an Löken blåser på!

1972

Det sista äventyret poster
6.5

An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and fiancee. He manages to get a temporary job as a biology teacher, leave home and rent a room. He begins to flirt with a student.

Det sista äventyret

1974

Come to Casino poster
8.0

A comedic revue from Intima Teatern in Stockholm.

Come to Casino

1975

Anderssonskans Kalle poster
4.2

Anderssonskan's Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.

Anderssonskans Kalle

1972

47:an Löken poster
3.7

47:an Löken and his friends get into mischief in the army.

47:an Löken

1971

The Wedding poster
3.2

"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.

The Wedding

1973

AWOL poster
7.0

In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who tries to seduce him into joining her extremist group's cause.

AWOL

1972

Ungkarlshotellet poster
7.0

Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.

Ungkarlshotellet

1975

1960s · 13 titles

Åsa-Nisse i rekordform poster
2.8

Åsa-Nisse invents a new super fuel that makes boats look like rockets.

Åsa-Nisse i rekordform

1969

För tapperhet i tält poster
10.0

"For Bravery in Tent" - A military farce with an all-star cast consisting mainly of comedy, songs and slap sticks.

För tapperhet i tält

1965

Är du inte riktigt klok? poster
6.5

Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen.

Är du inte riktigt klok?

1964

Swedish and Underage poster
3.7

A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.

Swedish and Underage

1969

Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form poster
4.8

Inspired by the space-race, Åsa-Nisse and his friends build a top-secret moon rocket. They have big trouble hiding their secret from prying newspaper reporters, and spies disguised as cows...

Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form

1966

Åsa-Nisse i popform poster
2.0

Pop music comes to Knohult and Åsa-Nisse has a new invention that makes his hens lay their eggs to the beat of the music.

Åsa-Nisse i popform

1964

On a Bench in a Park poster
5.0

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...

On a Bench in a Park

1960

Tre dar på luffen poster
7.0

A vagabond comes walking on a small Swedish country road in the middle of summer. Suddenly he finds himself employed at a nearby farm.

Tre dar på luffen

1964

No artwork available
8.0

Freddy and Stickan is working at a weapons factory, one day Freddy comes across a key to some secret weapons blueprints. But Freddy and Stickan gets drafted as the crooks trying to get a hold on the keys tries to follow them.

Tre dar i buren

1963

30 pinnar muck poster
8.0

A spy is sent to the military service to monitor the soldiers.

30 pinnar muck

1966

Swedish Wedding Night poster
6.3

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.

Swedish Wedding Night

1964

Adam in Sweden poster
3.8

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.

Adam in Sweden

1966

Pang i bygget poster
6.2

Merchant Valentin Skog runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll"- a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.

Pang i bygget

1965

1950s · 18 titles

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt poster
4.2

Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt

1955

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 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

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

No artwork available
7.0

Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.

Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo

1952

No artwork available
7.0

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

Janne Vängman och den stora kometen

1955

Never with my crowbar or… The Dream Thief poster
5.5

A director has designed a burglar-proof safe that no one can open.

Never with my crowbar or… The Dream Thief

1954

No artwork available
9.0

The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vacation in the archipelago.

Enslingen i blåsväder

1959

Så tuktas kärleken poster
7.0

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.

Så tuktas kärleken

1955

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

The Bravado of the Österman Brothers poster
8.0

Director Svensson in Stockholm is going on vacation to Koön in the archipelago. The rented cottage is inhabited by the brothers August and Johan Österman. Johan throws out August and tells him to arrange accommodation for the summer guests elsewhere.

The Bravado of the Österman Brothers

1955

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

We Three Debutantes poster
8.0

Three young poets are about to make their debuts.

We Three Debutantes

1953

No artwork available
8.0

Set during 1930's Stockholm, a portrayal about the birth of Europa Films - featuring over thirty segments from other movies, including one color scene from Klockorna i Gamla sta'n (1946).

Syndare i filmparadiset

1956

Sängkammartjuven poster
5.5

Rich socialite must deny persistent rumours that she has an affair with a poor author.

Sängkammartjuven

1959

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

Pettersson i Annorlunda poster
NR

Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.

Pettersson i Annorlunda

1956

No artwork available
9.0

Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with Gösta Bernhard on the radio.

Enslingen Johannes

1957

Series credits

Rederiet poster
7.5

This Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.

Rederiet

1992

Svensson, Svensson poster
6.3

Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers. The series centres around the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav who works as mailman, the mother Lena who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina and their son Max. For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina has married the conductor John who brought his daughter Greta into the family.

Svensson, Svensson

1994

Profitörerna poster
6.0

Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.

Profitörerna

1983

Någonstans i Sverige poster
6.8

In the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months, the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack this country.

Någonstans i Sverige

1973

Dubbelsvindlarna poster
6.0

Principal Bertilsson lives a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that he is hiding a million kronor in his basement. Money of a successful bank robbery.

Dubbelsvindlarna

1982