Nils Eklund

Acting

Nils Eklund

Born

1927-01-17 (99)

Place of birth

Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 12 titles

The Journey to Melonia poster
6.6

When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.

The Journey to Melonia

1989

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

One-Week Bachelors poster
4.8

Gary's wife goes away for a week and Gary expects a week of hard work at the office. After having left her at the airport, he misses the bus. But the car mechanic Lasse gives him a ride. Although they are unlike each other, they get to know each other. Gary makes a mess of everything and can't avoid Lasse.

One-Week Bachelors

1982

Who Pulled the Plug? poster
5.8

To secure an order for 1 000 cabin cruisers from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against a much larger competitor and both resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first.

Who Pulled the Plug?

1981

The School of Wives poster
6.2

This television adaptation presents Molière’s comedy The School of Wives, centering on Arnolphe, an older bachelor who plans to marry his young ward, Agnès, believing her innocence will ensure his control. His scheme is disrupted when Agnès falls in love with the younger Horace, setting off a series of deceptions and confrontations that undermine Arnolphe’s authority.

The School of Wives

1983

During the Journey to Melonia poster
NR

Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia

During the Journey to Melonia

1989

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

Splittring poster
7.0

Ömer lives with his family in a suburb of Stockholm. One of his sons, Kemal, respect his father's strict authoritarian and traditional Muslim values. The other Metin wants to live for more liberal norms. A conflict between the two brothers arise.

Splittring

1984

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

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

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

Genombrottet poster
8.5

Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.

Genombrottet

1981

1970s · 9 titles

Men Can't Be Raped poster
6.5

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

Men Can't Be Raped

1978

På palmblad och rosor poster
5.8

Real estate broker Oskarsson visits a cabin deep in the woods. There he finds a bedridden and mute old woman who seems well cared for. There has recently been a fire in the stove, there is food in the fridge, but no trace of who cares for her.

På palmblad och rosor

1976

Jack poster
5.8

Jack spends his days smoking pot, drinking and hitting on girls together with his friends. As opposed to his friends, Jack actually knows what he wants to do with his life, he wants be an author. After a long summer together with his friends Jack finally has an idea for his first book...

Jack

1977

The White Carnation poster
6.3

An absent-minded University teacher lives a double life as an impostor. His butler helps him find victims.

The White Carnation

1974

Amala, Kamala poster
9.0

About two girl-wolf, Amala and Kamala in 1930s India. They are captured by the British troops and placed in Military hospital, subjected to a harsh upbringing, in an attempt to make ordinary people out of them.

Amala, Kamala

1971

No artwork available
6.5

The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

Around the World in 80 Days

1974

A Man with a Maid poster
4.7

A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.

A Man with a Maid

1975

Söndagspromenaden poster
9.0

A tale about the Coriander family at the turn of the century.

Söndagspromenaden

1971

Pistolen poster
7.0

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

Pistolen

1973

1960s · 8 titles

No artwork available
5.8

A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal, and happiness ensues.

To Love

1964

The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing poster
7.3

A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterested in women until Amelie Arbel moves into the town. She is both rich and seductive and he marries her. After the marriage he discovers that she can be very troublesome.

The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing

1969

Doctor Glas poster
6.4

Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality.

Doctor Glas

1968

No artwork available
9.0

Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.

Rooftree

1967

Wild West Story poster
7.0

Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.

Wild West Story

1964

The Marriage Wrestler poster
5.5

Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.

The Marriage Wrestler

1964

Swedish Portraits poster
7.4

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

Swedish Portraits

1964

No artwork available
10.0

About a man who takes advantage of his friends and one day comes across an extraordinary painting.

Slottstappning

1964

Series credits

Pippi Longstocking poster
7.3

The adventures of Pippi Longstocking, an eccentric, super-strong, redheaded moppet and her best friends Tommy and Annika.

Pippi Longstocking

1969

Selmas saga poster
3.5

8-year-old Selma Traskvist and her family are in danger of being evicted from their home, when Selma meets scientist Efraim von Trippelhatt who is working to build an airship and prove Santa's existence.

Selmas saga

2016

Barnen i höjden poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Barnen i höjden

1972

Sinkadus poster
8.0

A gang of robbers misplaces their loot of gold bars in the wrong car. After a while both the gang and their new unwitting accomplice find themselves chased both by other criminals who want a cut and the police.

Sinkadus

1980

Charleys tant poster
NR

Theatre production of Charley's Aunt shot for TV.

Charleys tant

1979

Around the World in 80 Days poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Around the World in 80 Days

1975

Genombrottet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Genombrottet

1981

Pojken med guldbyxorna poster
7.6

Pojken med guldbyxorna is a 1975 Swedish TV-series, based on an 1967 novel by Max Lundgren, that became very popular in Sweden and has since been shown numerous times on Swedish television. The version now broadcast on TV4 Guld consists of episodes cut into 30 minutes each. The plot revolves around a boy who discovers that he is able to pull an infinite number of banknotes from the pockets of his jeans.

Pojken med guldbyxorna

1975

No artwork available
NR

Nisse and Greta, a middle-aged married couple, sit and watch TV. To their surprise they get to experience their own life's in a TV show being broadcasted.

Nisse och Greta

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Den tredje lyckan

1983

Gubben Pettson poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gubben Pettson

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