Acting

Knut Frankman

Born 1878-12-22 · Stockholm, Stockholms lan, Sweden

Acting credits

Samvetsömma Adolf poster
10.0

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

Samvetsömma Adolf

1936

The Kingdom of Rye poster
7.5

Based on a Finnish poem, The Kingdom of Rye is a gorgeous romantic drama set in rural northern Sweden during the harvest. It features a young couple whose love affair is fraught with Hardy-esque complications and an unhappily married wife of the landowner.

The Kingdom of Rye

1929

Only a Mother poster
6.8

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Only a Mother

1949

His Grace's Will poster
5.7

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.

His Grace's Will

1940

Hemsöborna poster
6.0

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Hemsöborna

1944

Aktören poster
6.0

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Aktören

1943

The Count of the Old Town poster
5.2

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

The Count of the Old Town

1935

Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket poster
9.0

Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.

Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket

1949

The Great John Ericsson poster
7.0

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.

The Great John Ericsson

1937

On These Shoulders poster
9.0

Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.

On These Shoulders

1948

Fianceé for Hire poster
6.4

A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.

Fianceé for Hire

1950

No artwork available
10.0

A school kitchen teacher works on a farm under a fake name.

Fröken blir piga

1936

Alla tiders Karlsson poster
7.0

Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.

Alla tiders Karlsson

1936

Åh, en sån' advokat poster
4.5

Driver Elof "Loffe" Karlsson ends his employment with the director Bergfeldt, who is divorcing wife Karin. He takes the place of a lawyer Nyberg, provides Mrs. Bergfeldt a restaurant. This is where the young and cute waitress Greta and Loffe become acquainted. Greta Bergman is involved in a large inheritance case, and as a lawyer Nyberg agreed to take care for her. But Nyberg is a swindler who himself wants to access the money.

Åh, en sån' advokat

1940

Den blomstertid... poster
5.0

On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter War the island is isolated and smuggling is rampant, the leader of this operation is named Fritjof and he is also interested in Eva.

Den blomstertid...

1940

Mot nya tider poster
8.0

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Mot nya tider

1939

Fransson the Terrible poster
9.0

A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Fransson the Terrible

1941

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

Klart till drabbning poster
6.0

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.

Klart till drabbning

1937

Livat på luckan poster
9.0

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

Livat på luckan

1951

No artwork available
8.0

The wholesaler Blomberg is a regular customer of "Parfumerie Marie Danielsson". He often buys perfume for his many girlfriends. Blomberg's driver Bengt Lundgren is in love with the shop assistant Eva Bergström. Bengt deceives his boss by telling him that his car has broken, then he can go out with Eva.

Hon eller ingen

1934

Hälsingar poster
8.0

Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the road picking blueberries, falls. Jonas stops and helps her up. He gives Birgit two Swedish crowns for the pain and the suffering. Furthermore, he promises her a job on the farm.

Hälsingar

1933

Familjen Andersson poster
9.0

A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.

Familjen Andersson

1937

Man's Way with Women poster
8.0

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.

Man's Way with Women

1934