Sven-Eric Gamble

Acting

Sven-Eric Gamble

Born — Died

1924-08-10 — 1976-05-09

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 30 titles

48 Hours to Live poster
7.0

A New York newspaper reporter is sent to the Swedish island of Gotland to interview a nuclear scientist. He gets involved with foreign agents who have kidnapped the scientist’s daughter.

48 Hours to Live

1959

The Right to Love poster
6.0

A professor's convictions about modern sexual education and free love are challenged when his daughter decides she wants an abortion.

The Right to Love

1956

Song of the Scarlet Flower poster
7.0

Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

Song of the Scarlet Flower

1956

Barabbas poster
6.6

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Barabbas

1953

Två trappor över gården poster
8.0

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.

Två trappor över gården

1950

Girl with Hyacinths poster
7.3

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.

Girl with Hyacinths

1950

You Are My Adventure poster
6.3

Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.

You Are My Adventure

1958

Den hårda leken poster
10.0

Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.

Den hårda leken

1956

Just a Waiter poster
7.0

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

Just a Waiter

1959

Private Entrance poster
4.1

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

Private Entrance

1956

Web of Desire poster
4.9

Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.

Web of Desire

1957

While the City Sleeps poster
6.7

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

While the City Sleeps

1950

Young Man Seeking Company poster
4.5

A lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her on the street and asks if she has lost a piece of jewelry.

Young Man Seeking Company

1954

The Great Amateur poster
6.0

Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

The Great Amateur

1958

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

Crime in Paradise poster
7.0

While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.

Crime in Paradise

1959

We Three Debutantes poster
8.0

Three young poets are about to make their debuts.

We Three Debutantes

1953

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

Möten i skymningen poster
5.5

Olle moves to Stockholm to start a new job as a printer. He rents a room by his colleague-to-be, Victor. He shares the apartment with Roffe who has a serious alcohol problem - and a very flirtatious wife, Irma. He falls in love with Irma's sister, Barbro.

Möten i skymningen

1957

Mord, lilla vän poster
6.0

A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.

Mord, lilla vän

1955

Adolf i toppform poster
9.0

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

Adolf i toppform

1952

Stampen poster
6.3

Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.

Stampen

1955

Sir Arne's Treasure poster
6.3

Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.

Sir Arne's Treasure

1954

Mälarpirater poster
10.0

Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.

Mälarpirater

1959

Resa i natten poster
9.0

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.

Resa i natten

1955

Night Light poster
4.3

Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.

Night Light

1957

Skeppare i blåsväder poster
7.0

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.

Skeppare i blåsväder

1951

No artwork available
NR

A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.

Children of the Night

1956

Simon the Sinner poster
7.3

After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.

Simon the Sinner

1954

Våld poster
10.0

It is 1940. A young man is facing court martial on charges of conscientious objection. He admits the crime. The prosecutor demands a most severe punishment. While waiting for the verdict, the young man think back of his past. How could this happen?

Våld

1955

1940s · 10 titles

Port of Call poster
6.6

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

Port of Call

1948

Thirst poster
6.3

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Thirst

1949

The Blockhead of the Block poster
7.0

The kids on the south side of Stockholm get together to help their friend Kalle out when he's broken a window, by starting a fund-raiser. But some older kids are after the money.

The Blockhead of the Block

1947

The Sin of Anna Lans poster
7.3

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

The Sin of Anna Lans

1943

The Serious Game poster
3.7

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

The Serious Game

1945

No artwork available
3.3

A married priest woos a seamstress.

Life Starts Now

1948

En man för mycket poster
8.0

Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja. Their ménage à trois becomes a crazy mix of jealousy and misunderstanding.

En man för mycket

1941

Ungdom i fara poster
10.0

A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on the right side of life — until a criminal friend shows up.

Ungdom i fara

1946

Playing Truant poster
5.8

High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.

Playing Truant

1949

Krigsmans erinran poster
7.0

Jocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.

Krigsmans erinran

1947

1930s · 11 titles

Sigge Nilsson och jag poster
5.7

Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

Sigge Nilsson och jag

1938

Två år i varje klass poster
9.0

The boys will get a new class teacher who has discipline, they get in a lot of mischief, so much complaints that they have to read extra during the summer holidays to get started in class 4.

Två år i varje klass

1938

Med folket för fosterlandet poster
8.0

This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.

Med folket för fosterlandet

1938

Adolf i eld och lågor poster
7.0

Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on one action-packed mission after the other. But it's not always that he uses honest working methods to produce his scoops.

Adolf i eld och lågor

1939

Guest House Paradise poster
5.4

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for

Guest House Paradise

1937

Ocean Breakers poster
8.0

Daniel has reluctantly followed his father into the priesthood. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, Daniel and Karin, a resident of Hälsingland and old friend, are both overcome with emotion and sleep together. Filled with regret over breaking his vows, he runs out into the dark night and is struck by lightning. He loses his memory and is taken to a distant hospital to recover. Meanwhile Karin gets pregnant and has a child. Eventually Daniel comes back and when he meets Karin his memory returns.

Ocean Breakers

1935

No artwork available
8.0

The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.

Vi på Solgläntan

1939

Her Little Majesty poster
6.8

Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?

Her Little Majesty

1939

It Pays to Advertise! poster
8.0

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

It Pays to Advertise!

1936

No artwork available
8.0

A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.

Bergslagsfolk

1937

No artwork available
NR

A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view.

Järnets män

1935

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