Carl Billquist

Acting

Carl Billquist

Born — Died

1933-05-19 — 1993-05-24

Place of birth

Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 18 titles

Fanny and Alexander poster
7.8

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.

Fanny and Alexander

1982

The Simple-Minded Murderer poster
7.0

The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Simple-Minded Murderer

1982

Jim and the Pirates Blom poster
5.9

Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but comes back in Jim's fantasies to tell stories. In his daydreams, Jim has all kinds of adventures.

Jim and the Pirates Blom

1987

Peter-No-Tail in Americat poster
5.9

Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying hard and, much to the dismay of his arch-rival Magnus (Måns), he receives a fancy university degree very few cats in the university town Uppsala, Sweden have obtained. Peter is visited by his American relative Pelle Swanson who invites him to visit his new home country America - in the movie called Americat. There everything is bigger and everything seems possible.

Peter-No-Tail in Americat

1985

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever poster
6.3

Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg?

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever

1984

Skånska mord - Veberödsmannen poster
8.2

Martin Svensson was an evil and brutal man that drifted around in Skåne with his family in the beginning of the 20th century.

Skånska mord - Veberödsmannen

1986

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

Peter-No-Tail poster
6.4

Peter-No-Tail is a cat who's born without a proper tail on a farm by the Swedish countryside. Due to economical difficulties, the farmer is forced to get rid of Peter. The farmer can't bring himself to drown the cat, so he sneaks Peter inside the car of a family who are renting a house close to the farm for their summer vacation. When the family finally reach their home in Uppsala, Sweden, they find Peter and decide to keep him. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats and, especially Mike, who teases him cruelly. Mean Mike and his two companions, Bill and Bull, are notorious for the nasty tricks they like to play on other cats. Mike is currently trying to court Molly Silk-Nose, but his rough and silly approach does not impress her, since she becomes interested in the kind and gentle Peter. But Mike won't give up that easily and he has a plan for how he'll get his revenge.

Peter-No-Tail

1981

Höjdhoppar'n poster
6.8

35-year old Erik Engman, aka Pinnen, is the local fool. He picks up garbage and eats at the old people's home. One day he is asked to try the high-jump at the sport's field. He becomes fascinated and starts to train every day. Being fool-hardy, it doesn't take long before he is one of the best in the country and is asked to compete at the Stockholm Stadion.

Höjdhoppar'n

1981

Green Men from Outer Space poster
8.0

A UFO has crashed close to a summer holiday park and a couple of kids are set to help them with the aid of a man with magic powers. But they have to hurry before an anti UFO force finds the green men from outer space.

Green Men from Outer Space

1986

Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941 poster
8.2

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem for the Swedish government. On one hand remaining friendly with Germany at the height of its power, on the other maintaining a strict neutrality. The Swedish cabinet meet in Stockholm to decide upon the best reply to the German demands.

Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941

1988

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon poster
7.0

A biopic of the mathematician Sonia Kovalevsky.

A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon

1983

Min pappa är Tarzan poster
8.8

Moa is seven years old and lives with her mother and her hamster. When her mother gets a new boyfriend Moa starts fantasising about her father's life in Africa.

Min pappa är Tarzan

1986

Idag Röd poster
8.0

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.

Idag Röd

1987

Skånska mord - Hurvamorden poster
6.4

After 24 hours of searching, the body of ex policeman Tore Hedin is found in Brösarps-lake in Skåne. The year was 1952.

Skånska mord - Hurvamorden

1986

Barna från Blåsjöfjället poster
7.7

A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.

Barna från Blåsjöfjället

1980

Raskenstam poster
6.0

The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.

Raskenstam

1983

Jackpot poster
NR

Kurre works under the table for a moving company. When he gets injured on the job his boss turns his back on him but Kurre starts planning his revenge.

Jackpot

1980

1970s · 10 titles

Stubby poster
5.9

6-year-old Johan (nicknamed 'Fimpen') loves football. One day, his talents are discovered, and it doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and the media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.

Stubby

1974

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

Tribadernas natt poster
7.0

Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg.

Tribadernas natt

1978

Kalle Utter poster
NR

Kalle Utter is more interested in student life's happy sides and less for examinations and exams. One summer he takes a work as an informer at a castle. A time the noble family will never forget.

Kalle Utter

1971

The Cherry Orchard poster
7.0

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

The Cherry Orchard

1970

Håll alla dörrar öppna poster
10.0

Steve works as a locksmith and one day he meets Lotta in his work. After helping her get back into her apartment they decide to see each other again. Though they are dating Steve still goes out with other girls, and in situations like this a big city quickly becomes a small town.

Håll alla dörrar öppna

1973

No artwork available
6.5

The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

Around the World in 80 Days

1974

Pig Hunt poster
6.5

"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

Pig Hunt

1970

Nationalmonumentet poster
NR

The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.

Nationalmonumentet

1977

Honeymoon poster
9.0

Carl meets Inger through a personal ad. They fall in love, move together, but realize that they are very different. Nevertheless, they decide to marry. On their way home from the wedding, they fall through a hole in the street and into the sewer system, where they are forced to spend their honeymoon.

Honeymoon

1972

1960s · 10 titles

Miss and Mrs Sweden poster
6.3

To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.

Miss and Mrs Sweden

1969

All These Women poster
6.1

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.

All These Women

1964

A Dream Play poster
7.0

A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

A Dream Play

1963

Lek ej med kärleken poster
10.0

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Lek ej med kärleken

1961

En sån strålande dag poster
5.5

A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson will inherit a piece of land in Guatemala, containing large oil deposits. A baby photo of Eva has been included for identification, and when Thore is fired for his mistake he happens to bring the photo with him.

En sån strålande dag

1967

Mr. Ernest poster
8.0

Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.

Mr. Ernest

1961

Come on Roland! poster
6.1

In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.

Come on Roland!

1966

Lyckodrömmen poster
10.0

The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.

Lyckodrömmen

1963

Swedish Portraits poster
7.4

The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.

Swedish Portraits

1964

No artwork available
9.0

Three kind-hearted criminals, Joseph, Albert, and Jules, plan to escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes, and they find refuge with the kind-hearted but clumsy Felix Ducotel and his family. Felix runs a shop for his demanding, arrogant cousin André, who makes the mistake of stealing Albert's beloved pet, a poisonous snake! For the Ducotel family, it will be a Christmas to remember—together with three crooks who turn out to be nothing less than three "wise men"!

Trasiga änglar

1962

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