Håkan Westergren

Acting

Håkan Westergren

Born — Died

1899-04-29 — 1981-10-15

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

From Wikipedia Håkan Westergren (29 April 1899, Solna – 15 October 1981, Stockholm) was a Swedish actor. He was mostly known for playing in Swedish comedy movies during the 1930s and 1940s, but was sometimes seen in some more serious roles. He was married to Swedish actress Inga Tidblad.

Known for

Från A till Ö poster
8.6

Hedvig lives in a trailer in the woods and has a nose for learning new words. Helping her is Helge, an owl who lives on her roof.

Från A till Ö

1974

Waiting Women poster
6.4

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.

Waiting Women

1952

Exposed poster
4.9

Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.

Exposed

1971

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca poster
3.8

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca

1962

Markurells i Wadköping poster
7.8

Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

Markurells i Wadköping

1968

Åsa-Nisse slår till poster
3.0

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.

Åsa-Nisse slår till

1965

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

Exposed poster
4.9

Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.

Exposed

1971

The Lustful Vicar poster
4.2

During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right

The Lustful Vicar

1970

Do You Believe in Swedish Sin? poster
4.7

A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.

Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?

1970

Petter och Lotta på äventyr poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Petter och Lotta på äventyr

1970

Aunt Brown's Birthday poster
NR

At Uncle Blue's house, Petter and Lotta get to go to their very own school. Their teacher teaches the children everything under the sun. They play cowboys and Indians and learn how to build an igloo. When Aunt Brown's birthday comes around, they prepare a surprise, with a treasure hunt and ghost games. Of course, it turns out to be a very successful birthday!

Aunt Brown's Birthday

1971

No artwork available
NR

Erik Levin leases the farm to his son and retires. In order not to be in the way of the son, he moves to a retirement home, where he looks forward to meeting people of his own age.

I frid och värdighet

1979

Pistolen poster
7.0

The adventures of an elderly aristocrat as she reluctantly becomes used to changes in society.

Pistolen

1973

1960s · 8 titles

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca poster
3.8

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca

1962

Åsa-Nisse slår till poster
3.0

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.

Åsa-Nisse slår till

1965

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

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

Forelsket i København poster
6.7

Jan Scharf's band is playing at Grönköbing Folk Park. Pianist Jan flirts with a young female audience member. Her friend notices what is going on, so they have to flee headlong. Back home in Copenhagen, they discover that their old residence has disappeared and a new high-rise building is going up, leaving them homeless. Jan has an uncle in Nyhavn, where he plans to stay temporarily.

Forelsket i København

1960

Farbror Blås nya båt poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Farbror Blås nya båt

1968

Tant Grön, tant Brun och tant Gredelin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tant Grön, tant Brun och tant Gredelin

1968

Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner poster
4.0

A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.

Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner

1966

1950s · 11 titles

Waiting Women poster
6.4

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.

Waiting Women

1952

Divorced poster
7.0

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Divorced

1951

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften poster
3.8

Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around ...

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften

1956

Giftas poster
8.0

The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".

Giftas

1955

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

Kyssen på kryssen poster
5.5

Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.

Kyssen på kryssen

1950

It Is Never Too Late poster
6.0

Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.

It Is Never Too Late

1956

Gårdarna runt sjön poster
5.7

A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.

Gårdarna runt sjön

1957

No artwork available
5.0

Biffen and Bananen are two ex bicycle racers who works in the bicycle factory Standard. Biffen is a meat eater, Bananen a vegetarian and they are in constant quarrel.

Biffen och Bananen

1951

The Happy Shoemaker poster
7.0

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

The Happy Shoemaker

1955

Två sköna juveler poster
8.0

Two broke actors are employed as private detectives to protect the young woman Ewa, who is on her way to Paris to sell a valuable piece of jewellery.

Två sköna juveler

1954

1940s · 19 titles

Tonight or Never poster
5.5

A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.

Tonight or Never

1941

The Invisible Wall poster
6.4

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The Invisible Wall

1944

Fröken Vildkatt poster
5.8

Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out and on the way home he saves a woman from drowning. The woman's name is Dolly (Marguerite Viby), an out of work actress, who won't leave his side and this gets him into trouble when he is about to get married in a couple of days.

Fröken Vildkatt

1941

Three Sons poster
9.0

Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.

Three Sons

1945

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

A Crime poster
5.4

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

A Crime

1940

En förtjusande fröken poster
4.3

Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.

En förtjusande fröken

1945

Gröna hissen poster
5.0

Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.

Gröna hissen

1944

En melodi om våren poster
9.0

Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.

En melodi om våren

1943

No artwork available
9.0

The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.

Får jag lov, magistern!

1947

One, But a Lion! poster
9.0

The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.

One, But a Lion!

1940

Daddy Wanted poster
5.5

Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.

Daddy Wanted

1947

No artwork available
7.0

The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.

Mitt folk är icke ditt

1944

Females At Play poster
6.3

A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Females At Play

1945

No artwork available
7.0

Göran Brehmer lives in Stockholm and can't resist flirting with women.

Så tuktas en äkta man

1941

Hans officiella fästmö poster
10.0

Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.

Hans officiella fästmö

1944

No artwork available
7.5

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.

Hennes melodi

1940

Stora skrällen poster
9.0

A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.

Stora skrällen

1943

No artwork available
10.0

Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to bankruptcy on foreign exchanges.

Herr Collins äventyr

1943

1930s · 12 titles

Dollar poster
4.5

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.

Dollar

1938

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

Han, hon och pengarna poster
8.0

Young Göran Hilding gamble and loses money he does not have. He'll have to pledge his 50 shares in a publishing company.

Han, hon och pengarna

1936

The Girls from the Old Town poster
7.0

About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.

The Girls from the Old Town

1934

For Her Sake poster
7.4

The young married couple Sigvard and Isabella Löfgren are constantly being sought by different companies where they are trading on the bill. Sigvard is a traveling salesman and Isabella works as a secretary at a theatre agency seeking artists for a revue.

For Her Sake

1930

Vad veta väl männen? poster
8.0

Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

Vad veta väl männen?

1933

Sara Learns Manners poster
6.0

Day to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.

Sara Learns Manners

1937

Scattered Pages poster
9.0

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.

Scattered Pages

1931

The Red Day poster
7.0

Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover of the capital of Stockholm on August 1.

The Red Day

1931

His Life's Match poster
9.0

Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.

His Life's Match

1932

Kungliga Johansson poster
8.0

Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).

Kungliga Johansson

1934

Kungen kommer poster
5.0

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.

Kungen kommer

1936

Series credits