Jan Malmsjö

Acting

Jan Malmsjö

Born 1932-05-29 · Lund, Sweden

Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö (born 29 May 1932 in Lund, Sweden) is a Swedish stage and actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.

Acting credits

The Tears of Saint Peter poster
3.4

Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.

The Tears of Saint Peter

1995

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

I Am Dina poster
5.6

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

I Am Dina

2002

Kurragömma poster
6.0

An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.

Kurragömma

1963

Scenes from a Marriage poster
8.0

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

Scenes from a Marriage

1974

Jan Malmsjö poster
NR

Jan Malmsjö is a Swedish icon of both stage and screen as an actor and singer. Birgitta Zachrisson got to follow him for a few months to create this portrait of him.

Jan Malmsjö

2002

Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen poster
4.5

An independent sequel to the TV series. Here we follow the families Öhrn and Seger and take us through autumn and winter on our way to Christmas celebrations and to a New Year's Eve which inevitably means an end to the old and a beginning of something new… A film about love and death and everything in between.

Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen

2021

Bergman: A Year in a Life poster
7.4

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.

Bergman: A Year in a Life

2018

The Ghost Sonata poster
5.7

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.

The Ghost Sonata

2007

Mot härliga tider poster
8.0

The summer holiday has begun. Jackie suddenly decides to go visit her old love Calle in the archipelago. She persuades her friend Vanja to come along. When Calle arrives to island he is not alone. His partner Yvonne, also his boss at the fashion company owned by Yvonne's father, accompanies Calle. Who, by the way, has changed his name to Carl-Adam. Problems arise.

Mot härliga tider

1983

Marie Göranzon - När rampljuset slocknar poster
NR

She has been on stage for over sixty years and has played all the great female roles. Now she is working on a new play, but at the same time she is facing the end at the age of 83 – and it doesn’t feel nice. Already in 1969, Marie met her great love, the actor Jan Malmsjö. Now she talks about the great passion that struck her even though she was already married, and about what everyday love looks like in older age.

Marie Göranzon - När rampljuset slocknar

2026

The Hidden Child poster
5.9

Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

The Hidden Child

2013

Marianne poster
9.0

Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.

Marianne

1953

Walter and Carlo in America poster
6.0

The steward Walter and the cobbler Carlo is tasked to provide not the Little, but the High Mermaid to two agents in Kennedy airport in New York. Already on arrival complicate the hapless heroes into a series of spy intrigue involving agents from both sides of the Iron Curtain

Walter and Carlo in America

1989

The Tattooed Widow poster
6.9

Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. She decides to leave her husband, children and grandchildren to start her life over. Before long, she has four men who court her and she feels young once again.

The Tattooed Widow

1998

Jim and the Pirates Blom poster
5.6

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

The Dream House poster
5.2

Göran buys a house in a suburb. It is in need of some repairs, but Göran believes himself capable of repairing it himself with the help of some cheap craftsmen. However, the house is much worse than he thought. At the same time, a gang of crooks is searching for the dynamite they hid in the basement some time ago. Göran has to rescue both his wallet from greedy craftsmen as well as his marriage with Tina.

The Dream House

1993

Loving Couples poster
5.9

As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.

Loving Couples

1964

With Your Permission poster
5.6

Ordinary Jan has no easy life. He is by far the most unpopular employee at work. At home it's even worse. His marriage with the not so ordinary Bente is on the verge of a breakdown. Jan's boss finally sends him into group therapy where an unlikely friendship emerges between Jan and the two mechanics Rudy and Alf.

With Your Permission

2007

No artwork available
7.0

Bo Gyllenstake has been named heir to his wealthy uncle. The condition for receiving the inheritance is that his nephew proves himself to be well-behaved, but Gyllenstake's reputation is somewhat tarnished. He therefore starts a school for moral education on the family estate, where wealthy families send their troublesome daughters. The school naturally becomes a training ground for debauchery, where young upper-class women can live out their suppressed desires. Greedy relatives hire a lawyer to expose the truth and disinherit the heir. The prudish lawyer soon finds himself caught up in the sex carousel and is unable to report any misconduct.

Skandalskolan

1958

Rätt ut i luften poster
7.0

An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".

Rätt ut i luften

1978

Lady in White poster
6.1

A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.

Lady in White

1962

Tattarblod poster
9.0

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.

Tattarblod

1954

No artwork available
NR

A film team is in the process of making a film adaptation of Viktor Rydberg's "Tomten", but starts making a film about porridge instead.

Hot on the Porridge

1951